Archive for November, 2008
IL Course Credit Does Not Equal Credibility
I can’t argue with many of the points William Badke makes in his infolitland column in the November/December 2008 issue of Online (subscription required) titled “Ten Reasons to Teach Information Literacy for Credit.” All of Badke’s ten reasons will gain full support from any information literacy advocate. Everything from driving students to higher quality information [...]
Posted by StevenB on November 25th, 2008 under Information Literacy.
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What You Can Do In Seattle With Just 36 Hours
Those academic librarians who travel to Seattle for ACRL’s 14th National Conference will be there, on average, about 60 hours. According to the New York Times that will leave plenty of time to explore the city of Seattle. A travel section article offers a diverse listing of fun things to do and see in downtown [...]
Posted by StevenB on November 23rd, 2008 under Conference Blogging.
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Digital Scholarship Reconsidered
In 1990 Ernest Boyer made an important contribution to the literature of higher education by authoring the book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Boyer’s material was based on the results of a 1989 survey of faculty across the nation sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Boyer said we must “…break [...]
Posted by StevenB on November 19th, 2008 under Scholarly Communications.
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With a Tangled Skein
My library, and the branch campus where I work, is quite small and in a very rural part of Alabama. We have about 250 students right now, though enrollment doubled since we opened the new building and we expect it to keep growing. I’ve been quite busy the last few weeks with a new and [...]
Posted by ssmith on November 17th, 2008 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Student Issues.
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Empowering Our Users With Fair Use
Editor’s Note: Working at an academic institution in Philadelphia had its advantages recently for providing proximity to a significant event - the formal release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. My colleague Kristina De Voe, Reference Librarian for English & Communications at Temple University, attended the event. Here [...]
Posted by StevenB on November 14th, 2008 under Copyright.
Comments: 2