Archive for March, 2006
More On Ethnographic Methods Webcast
Earlier this week I posted a summary of a webcast sponsored by the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community about “Ethnographic Methods and Participatory Design in an Academic Library”. As a followup, for those interested, Darlene Fichter attended the webcast and provided some fairly detailed notes on her blog. So if you couldn’t be there, you [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 31st, 2006 under Conference Blogging, Worth Reading.
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Bring “Helicopter Parents” In For A Landing @ Your Library
Today’s CHE provides a link to a Survey of Current College Parent Experiences (PDF), which, among other things, tells us that:
“Of the 839 parents surveyed, 74 percent communicated with their student two or three times a week and one in three did so at least once a day.”
This is consistent with what our Student Success [...]
Posted by Scott Walter on March 31st, 2006 under Higher Education, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues, Worth Reading.
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Commission On Higher Ed Aims Sight On Accreditation
I hope ACRLog readers have been following the proceedings of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education over the last few months. Sometimes we are so focused on our libraries and institutions that we neglect to pay attention to the industry in which we work. I suppose that’s one reason I [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 31st, 2006 under Higher Education, Worth Reading.
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Back from the Taiga
I’ve just returned from the first (annual?) Taiga Forum - a 2-day conference sponsored by Innovative Interfaces that brought together Assistant Directors (and others) from across the country to discuss the future of academic libraries and, specifically, the way in which a variety of traditional boundaries are dissolving across our emergent organizational structures.
The Forum [...]
Posted by Scott Walter on March 30th, 2006 under Conference Blogging, Professional Development.
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The More We Know The Better We Can Do
Over at the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community they sponsored a webcast today that offered information about a unique project. The presenters were Susan Gibbons, Associate Dean, Judi Briden, Digital Librarian for Public Services, and Nancy Foster, Lead Anthropologist and Co-Manager of the Digital Initiatives Unit. You read that correctly. Foster is an anthropologist working [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 29th, 2006 under Student Issues, Top Issues.
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