Archive for December, 2011
Unpacking Assessment
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Lisa Horowitz, Assessment Librarian at MIT Libraries.
As an assessment librarian, I am always looking for different ways to think about assessment. Most librarians aren’t statisticians, and for some, even the word itself, assessment, is daunting in that its meaning is unclear. Additionally, it’s such a broad topic that many [...]
Posted: 27 December, 2011 in Assessment.
Tags: data, evaluation, statistics
Comments: 1
Considering Conferences
This semester I went to two academic conferences that weren’t library conferences. While I’ve attended conferences outside of librarianship in the past, both before I was a librarian as well as more recently, this is the first time in my library career that I’ve intentionally gone to non-library conferences. At both conferences I was making [...]
Posted: 20 December, 2011 in Conference Blogging, Just Thinking.
Tags: anthropology, conference, disciplines, Higher Education, pedagogy
Comments: 1
The Limits of Mobility
Some interesting articles about mobile technology caught my eye last week as I was finishing up the leftover turkey. Apple has come under fire for the reported inability of Siri, the voice recognition application on the new iPhone 4S, to find abortion clinics. As reported by CNN, quoting the American Civil Liberties Union:
“Although it isn’t [...]
Posted: 7 December, 2011 in Information Literacy, Technology Issues.
Tags: access, Android, Apple, Google, internet, mobile, smartphone
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