Archive for June, 2009
The Pros and Cons of Reinventing the Wheel
Now that the slower summer months are here I’m taking some time to work on a couple of big projects. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about online tutorials. We have a large student population and a relatively small library, and I’m always looking for ways to extend our instructional efforts. Tutorials covering various research [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on June 27th, 2009 under Information Literacy.
Comments: 10
Tapping Your Inner Entrepreneur
Are you a Librarian Entrepreneur? You might be. Would you answer “yes” to these questions:
I am an opportunist.
I am a creative genius (or part of a creative work team)
I am persistent
I am customer focused
I connect the dots
I am passionate
I am a risk taker
According to my research in preparation for a talk at Inspiration, Innovation, Celebration: [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 24th, 2009 under Conference Blogging, Innovation, Uncategorized.
Comments: 7
Sustaining Scholarship
As Jennifer Howard of the Chronicle reports, collaboration between libraries and presses was a theme at the most recent meeting of the Association of American University Presses, but there seems to have been some heat generated over library/press relations and the open access movement.
One option is the “Michigan Model” in which a press becomes [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on June 22nd, 2009 under Scholarly Communications, information industries.
Comments: 2
Five Tips For A Better ALA Conference Experience
It’s now mid-June and the ALA annual conference will be upon us in no time at all. If you plan to be in Chicago now is the time to start thinking about your conference strategy. I hope you followed my advice on getting the hotel you want (see the third item) – and that you [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 16th, 2009 under Conference Blogging.
Comments: 10
Gone Camping
It’s summertime, so last week I packed my bag and headed off to camp: LibCampNYC, a library unconference held at Brooklyn College, CUNY.
This was the first unconference I’d ever attended, having narrowly missed out on signing up for Library Camp NYC in 2007. One of the defining features of an unconference is its loose structure. [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on June 13th, 2009 under Conference Blogging, Professional Development.
Comments: none