Archive for October, 2008
Who’s Counting Posts Anyway
Over the last few months at MPOW we searched far and wide for just the right book for an event to commemorate the addition of the 3 millionth book to our collection. You know how these things work. It isn’t really the 3 millionth book. It’s a ceremonial representation of the 3 millionth book. You’d [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 30th, 2008 under ACRLog News.
Comments: 1
Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Clearinghouse Makes It Easy To Track All The Rankings
When I last wrote about rankings I mentioned the growing number of different higher education rankings, everything from the top green campus institutions to the best party schools. I actually had no idea how many different rankings there were, but now I can find out much more [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 24th, 2008 under Higher Education, Just Thinking, Professional Development.
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Life, the Universe, and Everything
I am looking forward to the coming months in many ways: I finally have an Academic Library Job, I get to do a little bit of everything, and I am honored to be able to blog about my experiences here on the ACRLog. On the flip side, I am also filled with deep concern and [...]
Posted by ssmith on October 20th, 2008 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience.
Comments: 8
Must Teaching and Learning Research Skills be Boring?
Olivia Nellums blogs about her first year experience as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Camden County College in New Jersey.
Even though I’m a young librarian, I can’t remember not knowing how to use the library. I learned gradually, through a process of trial and error, and then by going to library school.
This leaves me [...]
Posted by onellums on October 15th, 2008 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Information Literacy.
Comments: 4
Another Story About Ignorant Students
One thing that anonymous academic librarian bloggers are good for is sharing stories about their “ignorant” students. It would be hard to imagine any academic blogger who goes by his or her real name relating anecdotes about encounters with such students or even referring to them as ignorant or stupid. For one thing, the incident [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 14th, 2008 under Public Services, Student Issues.
Comments: 14