Archive for August, 2008
Guest Post: Loyola University Prepares for Hurricane Gustav
Today is a half day, yet I’m not taking vacation time or sick leave for the remainder of the work day. The library is closing at noon, not for lack of business on Friday afternoons or a professional workshop that everyone’s attending, but because we have to leave town. Reel in the imagination–we are not [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on August 29th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 4
ACRLog Seeks New First Year Academic Librarian Blogger
We’d like to thank our first year academic librarian bloggers, Brett Bonfield, Kim Leeder, Melissa Mallon, and Josh Petrusa. In their posts they shared their experiences and gave voice to the special concerns of new librarians. Thank you all and good luck in your careers! We look forward to hearing from you in future guest [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on August 29th, 2008 under ACRLog News.
Comments: none
A Different Approach To College Rankings
It’s rankings time again. Just last week U.S. News & World Report released their Best Colleges 2009 rankings. If academic librarians think about college rankings at all I suspect that most take a peak simply to reassure themselves that their institution is still highly ranked, to see if it has inched ahead of that long-time [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 27th, 2008 under Higher Education.
Comments: 3
The Question They Forgot To Ask
Make no mistake that the newly released Ithaka Report titled “Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education” is essential reading for all academic librarians - and it’s chock full of easy-to-grasp charts - so you won’t get bogged down in reams of text in getting the important messages. But [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 22nd, 2008 under Faculty, Top Issues, Worth Reading.
Comments: 15
Introducing Your New International Information Literacy Logo
If you haven’t already updated all your instruction materials in anticipation of the coming fall semester you may wish to consider adding to them the spiffy new international logo for information literacy.
The logo comes to us courtesy of the IFLA. At the logo site you can download several different versions. In a press release they [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 21st, 2008 under Information Literacy.
Comments: 2