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• Call for Proposals, MLA Academic Libraries 2010

  
  A Library Writer's Blog — Authority: 468
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• The Library & The CMS: a wish list

  
  The Ubiquitous Librarian (Brian Mathews) — Authority: 92
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Academic Library As The Space To Collaborate

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Research 2.0 Concept Model and Presentation

  
  LIS :: Michael Habib — Authority: 113
  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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Taj Mahal Of A Library

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Students Protest Lack Of Access To Campus Library

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Digital Library Landscape

  
  Infotoday Blog — Authority: 131
  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 ...
  2 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Informing Innovation: No More Technolust

  
  banned librarian — Authority: 408
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• NCSU Breaks Ground On New High-Tech Library

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  The hyper-modern architecture and the robotic book storage and retrieval system will likely get the most attention, but its the way the interior space is crafted for people that could put N.C. States new library at the front of an evolutionary leap. The university is to break ground today on the 200,000-square-foot ...
  3 weeks ago

• WLA 2009: Canoe the Open Content Rapids

  
  The WLA Blog — Authority: 120
  Canoe the Open Content Rapids Dorothea Salo, UW System Digital Content Group http://www.slideshare.net/cavlec/canoe-the-open-content-rapids [under Creative Commons Attribution license] Instruction Digital storytelling - copyright issues over pulling from files found on Google Images - sets a bad ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Elsevier Scopus Value Story 09″ slides + “Better manage your downloads with Scopus” video

  
  LIS :: Michael Habib — Authority: 113
  Below are a presentation and video recently uploaded by the Scopus Marketing Team.   Please feel free to share feedback on the original items on Slideshare and YouTube .  Enjoy. Elsevier Scopus Value Story 09 View more documents from f kersten . Better manage your downloads with Scopus View ...
  4 weeks ago

• Academic librarians and research: a response

  
  Social Justice Librarian — Authority: 107
  Before you read this post, go here and read Mark Rabnett’s blog post, “ “For academic librarians what’s hard to reach is time for research.” I started leaving a comment there, but soon realised that my comment was likely to challenge the original post in length. Thus, I figured I’d just post a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented Groups

  
  Bilingual Librarian — Authority: 123
  The Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented Groups bring together professional librarians in the early years of their career to develop skills that will help continue their professional development. The program will provide participants with skills in leadership, ...
  6 weeks ago

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