Assuming you already have something worth writing or presenting, here is some worthwhile advice from Kathy Sierra in her post titled “Where to Start” over at Creating Passionate Users. She offers a list of good ways to begin either a presentation or an article, but the gist of the post is to start anywhere except [...]

Compiling lists seems like a popular preoccupation for librarian bloggers. Some hit the mark while others just come off as preaching to the choir. I’m not too preferential to developing top ten lists myself. I think I’ll leave that to others. In fact I came across a good list recently I thought was worth sharing. [...]

The Chronicle Wired Blog points to an article in which the author takes faculty to task for plagiarism. She claims that “indulgent lecturers” fan the flames of plagiarism by spoonfeeding students too many handouts and powerpoint slides that condition them to just take whatever information they have available and integrate that into their writing with [...]

On October 17, 2005 ACRLog made its official debut with a post titled “Come On In And Enjoy The Posts“. Since then the blog team has written another 352 posts, and more importanly our readers contributed 756 comments. We greatly appreciate your readership and the support of the academic library community – although we know [...]

I had the good fortune to tune it to the EDUCAUSE ELI Web Seminar “Assessment of Learning Spaces” this afternoon. The archive is online for ELI members. Particularly interesting to me is that the University of Dayton has not only done assessment of learning spaces but has used the results to make changes in [...]