Archive for October, 2009
Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
A New Courseware Trend?
This news item caught my eye. It announces an agreement between Blackboard and NBC in which the former will now offer access to the latter’s content. It states:
Blackboard is providing academic users with access to historical multimedia resources from NBC Learn. The two companies today announced that that they’ve inked a deal [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 29th, 2009 under sudden thoughts.
Comments: 2
Celebrating Open Access Week
Last week was Open Access Week, and my library hosted an afternoon program for faculty. We started things off with a brief introduction to open access scholarly journal publishing. After a quick review of the origins and history of OA, we discussed the benefits of OA journals for faculty, students, libraries, universities, and the general [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on October 27th, 2009 under Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
Comments: 3
Lessons from ECAR – “Real Books and People”
The new ECAR study on students and technology has just come out (thanks for the tip via Collib-L, Bill Drew!) and as usual, there are interesting findings. Nearly 90% of students come to college with a laptop now, and an even higher percentage of them use the library’s Website at least once a week. [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on October 25th, 2009 under Technology Issues.
Comments: 3
Don’t Let It Bring You Down MJ
MJ, I rarely, if ever, regret anything I’ve written, but I read your comment and if my post causes you to doubt that I am really passionate about academic librarianship, or if it leads you to question if you are making the right choice about wanting to pursue a career in academic librarianship – that [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 22nd, 2009 under library careers.
Comments: 3
Manual Labor
As if health care reform, the mess in Afghanistan, and H1N1 weren’t enough to ruin your day, having to cope with new editions of two major style manuals (neither of which actually keeps up with new information formats because they keep changing) is one of those “in the cosmic scale of thing it’s really incredibly [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on October 18th, 2009 under Idiocy.
Comments: 21