Archive for September, 2008
The Mark of Zotero
This just in, via beSpacific – Reuters is suing George Mason University for violating the Endnote TOS. Apparently (though I’m not sure I really understand the issue – this news story is very cryptic) Reuters claims the organization violated the terms of service when they analyzed ways to convert style files from Endnote to Zotero. [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on September 28th, 2008 under Commercialization, Technology Issues.
Comments: 5
Getting Your Ideas Out There First
Academic librarians are generally not competitive types. If we were we’d probably have gone to business school. But that competitive spirit may show up when it comes to presentations and publications. Getting a paper or panel accepted for ACRL’s 14th National Conference in Seattle was certainly a highly competitive process with just a twenty percent [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 25th, 2008 under Professional Development.
Comments: 2
Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
There’s Harvard and Then There Are “Lesser Libraries”
Does the name Robert Darnton ring a bell? No? Maybe it should. After all, Darnton is the Director of the Harvard University Libraries. As I read the most recent Annual Report of the Harvard Libraries I discovered who Darnton was when I read his “message” at the front [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 18th, 2008 under Just Thinking.
Comments: 13
Dumber Students Or Out Of Touch Academics
Are students getting dumber or are the academics working with them just getting more out of touch with those they teach? That debate has been hanging around for a while and now the noise level is increasing by more than a few decibles. I first wrote about this back in January 2006 when I discussed [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 15th, 2008 under Idiocy, Student Issues, Teaching.
Comments: 4
Information is Power – Even When it’s Wrong
Here is a guest post from Amy Fry, a San Diego-based librarian with whom I’ve done some research on aggregated databases. She was struck by the way a sloppy mistake in handling information led to a plunge in a company’s stock prices – and what the implications might be for information literacy. If you’re low [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on September 11th, 2008 under Information Ethics, Information Literacy.
Comments: 9