Archive for February, 2009
Local Food (for Thought) Movement
LJ Academic Newswire reports that U Penn is the latest to offer scan-on-demand with quality print output. Emory uses the same Kirtas machine to offer a curated collection of books relevant to Emory and to the South, unique in their collections. UMich, which has a rich collection of books scanned through their own efforts and [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on February 25th, 2009 under Books, Information Ethics, Technology Issues, information industries.
Comments: 7
Faculty Involvement Makes All The Difference
In a previous post I expressed my vision for the future of information literacy – and in that vision it’s not the librarians teaching students the skills needed to be wise consumers of information – it’s the faculty. That’s why this Wired Campus post caught my attention. It’s about two faculty members who wrote a [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 24th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 5
Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Low Self-Esteem Problem
Aren’t we the gals and guys who formulated call number schemes? So how is it that in LC library science materials got tagged with “Z”? If librarians were in charge of this operation wouldn’t it have been easy for them to just make librarianship “A”. It’s not like LC is based on a [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 19th, 2009 under Just Thinking.
Comments: 3
Academic Research A Painful Process For Students
There’s a certain type of research that most academic librarians would be doing on their own campuses if they had the time and resources. That would be organizing student focus groups or even one-on-one conversations in order to gain better insights into how the students conduct their research. That might allow us to better understand [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 18th, 2009 under Information Literacy, Research Issues.
Comments: 17
The Book of Dead Philosophers
I will continue with my silly-yet-very-librarianish method of naming my posts after books, just because I can. Since my husband (a philosophy professor) enticed me with this book title the other day, it seemed very appropriate to use it for the post I was planning to write. So, I ask, are books dead? That seems [...]
Posted by ssmith on February 17th, 2009 under Books, First Year Academic Librarian Experience.
Comments: 7