Archive for November, 2011
On Technologies and Library Space
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Maura Seale, Research and Instruction Librarian at Georgetown University Library.
Now that the fall semester instruction rush is over, I have been able to spend some time catching up on my library blog reading as well as my own research. I recently read this post on Academic Librarian about [...]
Posted: 28 November, 2011 in Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Tags: library as place, photo study, printers
Comments: 5
Clickers, or Does Technology Really Cure What Ails You?
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Cori Strickler, Information Literacy Librarian at Bridgewater College.
During idle times at the reference desk, or when the students are gone for a break, I find myself creating instruction “wish lists” of tools or gadgets that I’d love to have for my sessions. One item that has been on my [...]
Posted: 22 November, 2011 in Assessment, Teaching, Technology Issues.
Tags: clickers, experimentation, library instruction, students
Comments: 3
Once More to the Breach
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Mark Herring, Dean of Library Services at Winthrop University.
Summer’s over, I know, but we must go once more to the breach of web privacy. A California librarian recently complained about Amazon’s new Kindle ebooks lending program for libraries. The complaint focuses on Amazon’s privacy policy and advertising. In a [...]
Posted: 18 November, 2011 in Books, Information Ethics, Privacy, Technology Issues.
Tags: amazon, ebooks, ereaders, Facebook, web
Comments: -
Faculty Connections with Website Flair
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Marcia Dority Baker, the Access Services Librarian at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Schmid Law Library.
One of the great things about being an academic librarian at a law college is the ability to interact with a variety of departments. One such opportunity is a work in progress; [...]
Posted: 15 November, 2011 in Faculty, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: faculty scholarship, institutional repository, library website
Comments: 1
Smartphones in the Library
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, a student at Arcadia University in Philadelphia who completing is her Masters with a focus in School Library Media Specialty.
Finding the right technology to use in the library, particularly the kind of devices that will best suit the largest number of patrons, can be an arduous task [...]
Posted: 12 November, 2011 in Libraries and Community, Technology Issues.
Tags: library website, QR codes, research resources, smartphones, web toolbar
Comments: 2
