Archive for February, 2006
They Are Getting The Point About Information Literacy
If you didn’t already hear about it (owing to their massive PR machine), Blackboard has debuted its blog about “the convergence of education and technology.” Whatever your attitude is about corporate blogs I think one thing this blog will do well is give a platform to leaders in the field of educational technology. Several interesting [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 28th, 2006 under Libraries and Learning.
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Not Much Said About Bookless Libraries
ACRLog was a bit premature in announcing the NPR program about the future of the library in the 21st century. Will libraries be “bookless” and how will they redefine their role in a world of radical new information technology? The recording of the program is now available. I just finished listening to it, and there [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 28th, 2006 under Technology Issues.
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iPods And Pencils: It’s The User Experience Age And We’re Not Ready
In the Ziggy cartoon for January 30,2006 we see that Ziggy has two choices at the local diner. The menu board shows “Chili” for $2.50 – but “The Chili Experience” is $4.95. This may sound familiar. ACRLog reported the concept of giving users an experience was mentioned at OCLC’s “rebranding” symposium. I’m uncertain what it [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 27th, 2006 under Simplicity vs. Complexity, Technology Issues.
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Do Academic Librarians On The T-Track Blog
How blogging impacts on the academician’s career continues to be debated and discussed in the blogosphere. We’ve discussed academia’s conflicted reaction to blogging here previously. A worthwhile list of the pros and cons of blogging for those with and working for tenure appeared in a post by Christopher Sessums titled “Academic Research and Blogging.” He [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 23rd, 2006 under Professional Development, Research Issues, Uncategorized.
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NPR Addresses the Future of Libraries
According to the Talk of the Nation Web site, today’s program will be entitled, “The Bookless Library.” Here’s the blurb:
Information technology changes as soon we think we understand it. We look at how libraries keep up and redefine their role. How would you design a library for the 21st century?
For those of us who working [...]
Posted by Scott Walter on February 21st, 2006 under Top Issues.
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