Archive for June, 2011
Ideas For Innovation Are All Around Us
We are subject to a non-stop barrage of information about innovation. Experts give us advice on how to be more innovative. The stories we read in our library literature share news about innovative libraries. Yet we rarely learn how to be innovative. Ask a few librarians what it means to be innovative and you’ll get [...]
Posted: 28 June, 2011 in Innovation.
Tags: entrepreneurial_librarianship, Innovation, new_ideas
Comments: 2
Social Hacking at the Library
I’m always interested to read about ideas that folks outside of librarianship have about libraries. The other day my partner forwarded me a tweet from tech publisher Tim O’Reilly: Interesting note about an MIT professor who “hacked” (socially) the library as a way of recruiting interesting students http://bit.ly/k4qzrl O’Reilly links to Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab [...]
Posted: 22 June, 2011 in Information Ethics, Innovation, Libraries and Community.
Tags: databases, library catalogs, library resources, social media, social networking
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Just Connect: Getting Involved In ACRL
Editor’s Note: This is the finale of our series of posts from the ACRL Emerging Leaders Team about the upcoming ALA Conference in New Orleans. Is it hard to get involved in ACRL? Not really. But if you need some advice on how to get started Tabatha Farney, Web Services Librarian, University of Colorado at [...]
Posted: 14 June, 2011 in Conference Blogging.
Tags: acrl, acrl_membership, ala emerging leaders
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Go To ALA To Find New Ideas For Experimentation
Editor’s Note: In this next post, in a series about the upcoming ALA Conference in New Orleans, William Breitbach, a Librarian from California State University-Fullerton sponsored by CLS Section of ACRL, shares his thoughts on how to get more out of your conference experience by going to programs where one is likely to find new [...]
Posted: 10 June, 2011 in Conference Blogging.
Tags: ala conference, new_ideas
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You Can Tell Everyone About This PHITE Club
Editor’s Note: Here at ACRLog we are always open to guest posts from academic librarians who want to share a story about an interesting or innovative project at their library. I was attending the Texas Library Association conference when I came upon just such a project at the poster sessions. I had to know what [...]
Posted: 7 June, 2011 in Professional Development.
Tags: PHITE_Club, presentations, professional development
Comments: 4
