Archive for July, 2008
A Hybrid ALA For 2015
Like many ALA members I focus most of my participative energy on my division and section. Prior to the Annual Meeting in Anaheim I paid little attention to ALA’s exploration of e-participation. What I did learn at the conference is that an official Task Force on E-Participation has produced a report that makes recommendations to [...]
Posted: 30 July, 2008 in Conference Blogging, Professional Development.
Tags: ALA, e-participation, hybrid_association
Comments: 25
What are You Doing in September?
It’s time to start thinking about the annual effort to make libraries a site for conversation about freedom and democracy. Now in its fifth year, The September Project is a world-wide effort – and one that can help make your library more visible on campus. Here’s a message from David Silver, who was interviewed here [...]
Posted: 28 July, 2008 in Marketing.
Tags: civic engagement, outreach, September Project
Comments: -
Learning from the Lunsfords’ “Mistakes”
A new national study on errors in student writing asks whether the top mistakes noted in previous studies have changed much in the digital era. OMG! Turns out students aren’t making significantly more errors, rising from 2.11 mistakes per 100 words in a 1917 study to 2.45 in this 2006 data. The big shift, though, [...]
Posted: 25 July, 2008 in Uncategorized.
Tags: composition, Lunsford, writing from sources, writing instruction
Comments: 8
It’s Because Of The Students
Stephanie asks a good question in her post. What the heck do faculty want from us librarians? Another good question is what do the faculty think of their students. Two Chronicle essays this week reveal quite different answers to that question, and what I find interesting is that these opinions come from two very different [...]
Posted: 22 July, 2008 in Faculty.
Tags: Faculty, wiifm
Comments: 1
What Do Faculty Want from Librarians?
It’s official: I am now the librarian for psychology at the University of Connecticut, in addition to my responsibilities of working with folks in communication sciences. I’ve recently met with the chair of the department, who wanted to know what I “might be able to do to help psychology.” I know generally what he’s asking, [...]
Posted: 21 July, 2008 in Faculty.
Comments: 7
