Archive for March, 2007
Geting To The Conference Blog
In case you didn’t pick up on it in the comments to another post here, it is possible for anyone to view the official ACRL Conference blog. I had mistakenly indicated that it was only available to those who could get to the virtual conference (meaning you needed to be registered). Thanks to Marc who [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 31st, 2007 under Conference Blogging.
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Your Brain On ACRL
If you like learning to learn about how people learn – and how they learn about learning – you would have learned quite a bit at the talk given by Luz Mangurian, Professor Emerita at Towson University. She talked about how people learn, but took us for a tour of how the brain works [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 31st, 2007 under Conference Blogging, Libraries and Learning.
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Is It Cold In Here Or Is That Just You
I had heard that Jerry Campbell liked to use country and western song titles in his articles and talks, but I didn’t get a taste of that until today. The title of this post was just one of the song titles he made use of, and given that this was a panel discussion on “Where [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 31st, 2007 under Conference Blogging.
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ACRL’s Got A Brand New (conference) Bag
Michael Dyson got the ACRL 2007 National Conference off to a rousing start with a dynamic speech delivered preacher style (he did say he was also an ordained Baptist minister). Covering topics from literacy to hip-hop to Bill Cosby to American anti-intellectualism, Dyson reminded those in attendance that “they will inspire someone to go beyond [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 30th, 2007 under Conference Blogging, Uncategorized.
Comments: 5
Libraries At The Cutting Edge
That’s the title of a commentary published today at Inside Higher Ed. Written by ACRL President Pam Snelson, this article will serve to inform IHE readers that the library is a vibrant and dynamic resource at their institution, and as Snelson says is “far from fading away in the Age of Google”. Published to coincide [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 29th, 2007 under ACRL News, Higher Education, Uncategorized.
Comments: 1