Archive for August, 2006
Room of their Own
Interesting piece in the Chron about how “Library Renovation Leads to Soul Searching at Cal Poly.” A lot of libraries are looking for ways to add more space for students to do the multiple things they want to do in libraries – study, socialize, write papers, do homework, daydream, and even occasionally use library materials. [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 31st, 2006 under Buildings, Worth Reading.
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Reasons To Like Team Blogging
There’s a good read in the Wall Street Journal today (free access – yeah!) that will catch the attention of any blogger – and I know we’ve got a fair number of bloggers among our readers. It’s about the vacation dilemma. What do you do when it’s time to get away for a week or [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 31st, 2006 under Just Thinking, Worth Reading.
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News That We Can Use
The Internet is full of time-wasters, and repeated studies have pointed to the Internet’s negative impact on workplace efficiency. If employees want to do their online shopping during work hours or wile away the hours on YouTube or game playing, that’s not of much concern to our profession. But when I read that professionals are [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 30th, 2006 under Libraries and Learning, Worth Reading.
Comments: 3
A Case For Better Library Domain Names
I have often been puzzled by conference or workshops speakers who recommend techniques for optimizing the academic library web site so as to increase the likelihood that search engine users would find the library home page. Why would a student or faculty member use a search engine to find my library’s web site? Shouldn’t they [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 28th, 2006 under Technology Issues.
Comments: 2
Digital Dilemmas
I keep noting interesting things to read, and all of them appear to be about one of two things: this intriguing new digital world of ours holds all kinds of exciting potential – or digitization is fraught with moral, economic, legal, and cultural risk.
On the positive side, there’s Richard Ekman’s editorial in the Washington [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 26th, 2006 under Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
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