Academic Libraries

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• Information Services for learners in Second Life

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 419
  Information Services for learners in Second Life was an event held on December 7th. The presenters were all from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland: Pancha Enzyme, Lulu Quinnell, Frank Lassard and Clint Carpaccio (and featuring the IS [Information Services] Cream van). The session was introduced by Sheila ...
  3 days ago

• Project Information Literacy update

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 419
  The USAs Project Information Literacy has published its latest research report Lessons Learned: How College Students Find Information in the Digital Age , which describes results from a survey of 2,318 students carried out last Spring at six U.S. universities. There were also some follow-up interviews. From a ...
  1 week ago

• Visiting librarian at Bermuda College

  
  Bilingual Librarian — Authority: 123
  If you are ready for some warm weather and beautiful beaches, consider spending a couple weeks at Bermuda College. They are currently accepting proposals for their Visiting Librarian program. It looks like you can propose a project you’d like to work on, while contributing to the development of this library. From ...
  3 weeks ago

• Call for Proposals, MLA Academic Libraries 2010

  
  A Library Writer's Blog — Authority: 123
  Call for Proposals, MLA Academic Libraries 2010 Save the date for "Academic Libraries 2010: Explore, Discover, Connect," the Michigan Library Associations first two-day event highlighting trends and issues in academic libraries. The event will be held May 6-7, 2010, at the Hotel Baronette in Novi, Michigan. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Library & The CMS: a wish list

  
  The Ubiquitous Librarian (Brian Mathews) — Authority:
  I’m really excited about the relationship that is forming between the Library and our Course Management System folks. UCSB is adopting Moodle and there is a lot of momentum gathering. The Library has been invited to be development partners but also to help with assessment as well. Here are my quick and dirty notes ...
  4 weeks ago

• Academic Library As The Space To Collaborate

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 434
  If you could rebuild your campus library from the ground up, how would it be different? Would the impact of digital technology significantly alter the features and design? For many university administrators and library executives, these questions are purely hypothetical, offering them a chance to sketch out new ...
  5 weeks ago

• Research 2.0 Concept Model and Presentation

  
  LIS :: Michael Habib — Authority: 106
  The above is an evolution of the Academic Library 2.0 Concept Models developed for my Master’s Paper . While the original model primarily focused on academic library services for students, the new model focuses on services for researchers. Like in the original models, the top represents communication spaces ...
  5 weeks ago

• Library Visiting Scholarships

  
  Bilingual Librarian — Authority: 123
  I just received an email announcing that the Consortium for Latin American Studies at the University of Illinois – University of Chicago is offering fellowship for faculty of non-USA colleges and universities who do not have easy access to major library collections. The Consortium’s libraries are one of the major ...
  5 weeks ago

• Taj Mahal Of A Library

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 434
  One of these gray days, Im going to spend a good, solid eight hours in the newly remodeled William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library at Ohio State University -- just for the sheer pleasure. The place has everything: reading material, curios, terrific views and coffee. If youre any kind of library fan, go there. It is a ...
  5 weeks ago

• Students Protest Lack Of Access To Campus Library

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 434
  The honor student from Connecticut went on a hunger strike.It was a small but drastic measure designed to draw attention to the closure of the library at the Chester County institution and to food services that she and others insist are poor. She began to post fliers around campus about the librarys value. Sherwood ...
  5 weeks ago

• Digital Library Landscape

  
  Infotoday Blog — Authority: 427
  What is the role of libraries in today’s world?  Vital or irrelevant? These were the questions OCLC’s Roy Tennant attempted to answer. His major theme was that to survive in the digital library landscape, libraries must solve the problems their users have (and, I would presume, those who provide funding even if ...
  6 weeks ago

• The J. León Helguera Collection of Colombiana

  
  Bilingual Librarian — Authority: 123
  Recently the Vanderbilt library has digitized and made available a portion of their material on Colombia, specializing in 19th century culture and history, titled The J. León Helguera Collection of Colombiana. Currently the collection is divided into three main categories; broadsides, 1825-1972; pamphlets (including ...
  6 weeks ago

• Informing Innovation: No More Technolust

  
  banned librarian — Authority: 99
  Today I’m blogging from a conference on student (and generally young adult) library users hosted by LAUC-B. I’m about to go into a breakout session with e-learning specialist Char Booth on community-centered research. Here’s a great new book: Booth, Char. (2009). Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest ...
  7 weeks ago

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