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 by StevenB on July 30th, 2008 under Conference Blogging, Professional Development.
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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 by Barbara Fister on July 28th, 2008 under Marketing.
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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 by Barbara Fister on July 25th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 7
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 by StevenB on July 22nd, 2008 under Faculty.
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 [...]
Posted by Stephanie Willen Brown on July 21st, 2008 under Faculty.
Comments: 7