Archive for June 14th, 2006
Financial Aid and the Digital Divide
CHEPA is the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at USC. Every few months, I check out the new issue of its newsletter, The Navigator. The Spring 2006 issue had an interesting piece on the digital divide that suggests a new opportunity for collaboration between academic libraries and student affairs.
A report on a forthcoming study [...]
Posted: 14 June, 2006 in Higher Education, Libraries and Learning, Worth Reading.
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Welcome AASL Blog
ALA issued a news release today indicating that the American Association of School Librarians launched a permanent blog. Apparently AASL previously only did a conference blog. The blog team here at ACRLog welcomes AASL blog to the ALA family of blogs. What other divisions have them? I know that PLA and LITA have blogs, but [...]
Posted: 14 June, 2006 in Administration/Leadership.
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Gathering Intelligence
Scott McLemee is a scary dude. In mulling over the sticky question of Wikipedia, he lulls the reader into thinking “nice piece, but nothing really startling … until this:
Consider a recent discussion between a reference librarian and a staff member working for an important policy-making arm of the U.S. government. The librarian asked what information [...]
Posted: 14 June, 2006 in Libraries and Learning, Technology Issues.
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Tenure-Driven Publication And Presenting Need Not Be A Grind
I was inspired to write about publishing and presenting by academic librarians on the tenure track by a post on this topic over at Wandering Eyre . Jane relates how she feels like a “lady of the night” because she is obligated to give away her research to professional conferences if she is to achieve [...]
Posted: 14 June, 2006 in Professional Development, Research Issues.
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