Archive for August, 2008
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.
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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.
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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.
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Library As Place - For Air Conditioning Books
Here’s an interesting vision for the future of academic libraries from Adrian Sannier, Chief Technology Officer at Arizona State University. Sannier was the keynote speaker at the Campus Technology 2008 conference, and you can watch the video of his presentation, “A New American University for Next-Gen Learners” at the Campus Technology website. In his talk [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 19th, 2008 under Buildings, Higher Education, Technology Issues.
Comments: 6
The Letters And Titles You Add To Your Name
Not unlike the “we need tenure” / “we don’t need tenure” debate, librarians appear to be quite divided on whether members of our profession should add their degree(s) to business cards, on their e-mail signature or elsewhere. In a discussion taking place on this topic on friendfeed (thanks to StevenC for pointing to it) librarians [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 17th, 2008 under Professional Development, library careers.
Comments: 17