Archive for December, 2008
Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
What Are the Top Academic Librarianship Strories in 2008?
We’d like to know what you think are the top news stories in academic librarianship for 2008. You can help us develop a post about 2008’s top news by taking our brief survey. There are just three questions. We’d also like to know what your crystal ball [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 19th, 2008 under Just Thinking.
Comments: 4
Top Newspapers For Higher Ed Reporting
It’s no secret that the newspaper industry is in trouble. Circulation of print editions is way down. Advertising revenue is even further down. And Tribune Co. just declared bankruptcy. The Christian Science Monitor recently announced it would publish only one print edition a week. Nearly every newspaper is struggling to transform itself for an online [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 17th, 2008 under Higher Education.
Comments: 1
Renting Keys to Walled Gardens
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just issued its third annual forecast of “The Future of the Internet.” It’s well worth a read. Among predictions:
–The mobile phone (or its descendant) will be the primary access point to the Internet by 2020.
–Social networking won’t increase tolerance. It might even polarize people into less [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on December 14th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 10
Long Lost Motivation
In the current-day liturgy of teaching, it seems that motivating students is key. Once you have students motivated, supposedly, they will easily absorb what may otherwise seem dry or mundane. So a teacher’s plan should not be to transmit the material, but to motivate the students to learn the material for themselves while acting as [...]
Posted by onellums on December 11th, 2008 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Information Literacy, Public Services, Teaching.
Comments: 9
A Night at the Museum
Suzanne Briet once posed the question, “Can an antelope be a document?” in her article/pamphlet called What is Documentation?. I won’t go into all the gory details, but that argument has stayed with me since I first read it. She is essentially stating that a document is evidence in support of a fact. Paul Otlet, writing [...]
Posted by ssmith on December 9th, 2008 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Just Thinking, Uncategorized.
Comments: 4