Archive for February, 2010
Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
The Mezzanine is Where?
I was really excited when the sign installers delivered a new directory totem for our library. It’s only about 46 years late. I am sure that most of your library buildings have some sort of quite obvious building directory near the entrance so that visitors can immediately get a sense of the [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 25th, 2010 under sudden thoughts.
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Paper Or Poster Session At ACRL: Making The Choice
Given a choice between preparing and submitting a proposal for a contributed paper or a poster session at ACRL’s 2011(15th) national conference, which do you think most academic librarians would choose. I need less than 2 seconds to think about this one. It’s the paper.
When it comes to ACRL’s national conference my take is [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 22nd, 2010 under Professional Development.
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ACRLog Welcomes Its Emerging Leaders
Editor’s Note: ACRLog is pleased to announce that a group of ALA Emerging Leaders was assigned to work with the ACRLog blog team (and ACRL Insider too), and use our little blog to share ideas that will enhance ALA conference attendance for both first-timers and veterans alike. Over the next few months we’ll feature occasional [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 17th, 2010 under ACRL News.
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Must Scheduling be Sisyphean?
I was planning to post last week about something interesting I’d read in the library or higher ed news and literature, but I haven’t kept up with my reading as much as usual recently. The task that’s been occupying my time? Scheduling our English Comp library instruction sessions. It’s not the most glamorous or fun [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on February 15th, 2010 under Just Thinking, Simplicity vs. Complexity.
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Give Me A Chat Box
If you haven’t been taking advantage of webcasts/webinars (whichever you like to call them), you probably will be soon enough. When John Shank and I started doing webcasts at the Blended Librarians Community back in 2005 there weren’t many opportunity for academic librarians to take advantage of webcasts for professional development. Now there are so [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 12th, 2010 under Professional Development.
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