Archive for January, 2009
ProQuest Creates A Q&A Community For Grad Students
Most academic libraries target their information literacy efforts to the undergraduate population. There may be an assumption that graduate students are well equipped to meet the demands of their research assignments. But I suspect that most of us know, at least anecdotally, that graduate students need just as much help, and possibly more, than the [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 30th, 2009 under Graduate Students.
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Congrats To Winners Of ACRL’s Big Awards
Two of ACRL’s biggest awards are the Academic/Research Librarian of the Year and the Excellence in Academic/Research Libraries Awards. We just learned who the latest winners of those awards are, and we wanted to extend our congratulations.
Congratulations to Gloriana St. Clair, dean of university libraries at Carnegie Mellon University. St. Clair is the 2009 ACRL [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 30th, 2009 under ACRL News.
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Too Much Presentation Pressure
The greatest presentation I’ve ever seen at a library conference was many years ago at an ALA conference in Chicago. It may come as no surprise that the presenter was not a librarian. It was Stephen Covey of “seven habits” fame. The presentation was a highly planned, coreographed mix of dazzling slides, dynamic presentation style [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 26th, 2009 under Professional Development, Technology Issues.
Comments: 23
Incivility In The Academic Library
When Chuck E. Cheese gets more calls for police assistance than the neighborhood beer-and-a-shot bar you know that things are looking bad for civil behavior. But that’s exactly what’s happening according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. The problem, it seems, is that some parents have taken to odd ways of dealing with the [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 19th, 2009 under Student Issues.
Comments: 10
ACRL Presidential Candidates Forum
Who doesn’t love presidential elections? Bet you didn’t get enough of the last one. If you find yourself still hungering to hear two presidential candidates have a go at each other in a lively Q&A format then stop by ACRL’s Presidential Candidates Forum at ALA Midwinter in lovely Denver.
Attend the ACRL Presidential Candidates Forum and [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 17th, 2009 under ACRL News.
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