Archive for February, 2012
What Are the Next Steps?
It’s a phrase often heard at the end of a meeting: what are our next steps? When I worked as a web editor and project manager we called them action items (which is, admittedly, corporate jargon, but also makes them sound kind of fun). What does each person at the meeting need to do to [...]
Posted: 24 February, 2012 in Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: advocacy, Elsevier, FRPAA, Research Works Act
Comments: 2
Digital Library, Virtual Place?
All of our academic library services and resources have their origins in the physical world, but many of them can be and are replicated online fairly easily. Access to collections in multiple formats (text, image, audio, video), reference services, and library and information literacy instruction all have digital variants, and examples of each are out [...]
Posted: 11 February, 2012 in Just Thinking, Student Issues.
Tags: electronic resources, library as place, studying
Comments: 1
Learning to Embrace the Uncomfortable
Please welcome Veronica Wells to the ACRLog team. Veronica is the Access Services/Music Librarian at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She is currently in her first professional position after earning an MLIS and Master of Arts in Music from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Veronica’s research interests include assessment of music information literacy instruction, [...]
Posted: 2 February, 2012 in Teaching.
Tags: classroom teaching, comfort zone, group activities
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