Archive for August 17th, 2006
The Lush and Vibrant Library
Though it likely didn’t get the readership that “The Deserted Library” did, the Chronicle’s Scott Carlson followed up with a good and thoughtful overview of what makes new libraries work and how different libraries conceptualize what they’re trying to accomplish, originally published last fall but featured recently in the Chronicle’s e-mail alert. It’s still a [...]
Posted: 17 August, 2006 in Buildings, Libraries and Learning, Worth Reading.
Comments: 1
Google Jockeys For Conference Sessions
If you haven’t heard about Google Jockeys, the basic idea is that an instructor assigns a student to search Google during a class session so that the class can be alerted to material found on the Internet that relates to the class content. I guess to make this work you need at least two monitors [...]
Posted: 17 August, 2006 in Innovation, Professional Development.
Comments: 3