Archive for September, 2009
My College Advice? Learn How To Do Research
The New York Times recently asked 7 academics to offer advice to students entering college. If they had asked me, my advice would have been to learn how to do research, to practice it, and get really good at it.
Of course, as an academic librarian, I may be biased. But as someone [...]
Posted: 11 September, 2009 in Books, Buildings, Information Literacy, Student Issues.
Comments: 1
Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
More on Dan Ariely
I’ve been to more than a few ACRL President’s Programs. These programs take place at the ALA Annual Conference. Many of them I really do not remember. But one that I remember well is the 2008 program at which Dan Ariely was the speaker. Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of [...]
Posted: 10 September, 2009 in Just Thinking.
Tags: ariely, real-time_library, real-time_web, sudden_thoughts
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Persistence Pays Off
This article caught my attention because I came across it on the same morning I submitted to a journal a paper that I co-authored with a colleague . Nothing particularly unique about that for an academic librarian. What might be of interest is that I first had the idea for this article in 2005 and [...]
Posted: 1 September, 2009 in Professional Development.
Tags: garbage_can_theory, grit, persistence, publication
Comments: 2
