Archive for August, 2012
Failing Forward, Supporting Students
My son starts middle school in a week, so I’ve been more susceptible than usual to headlines about how parents can help their kids succeed academically. A couple of recent articles in the New York Times caught my eye. First was an opinion piece by psychologist Madeline Levine called Raising Successful Children. Levine is the [...]
Posted: 29 August, 2012 in Student Issues.
Tags: student learning, student support
Comments: 2
Leaves of Graph
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Pete Coco, the Humanities Liaison at Wheaton College in Norton, MA, and Managing Editor at Each Moment a Mountain. Note: This post makes heavy use of web content from Google Search and Knowledge Graph. Because this content can vary by user and is subject to change at anytime, this [...]
Posted: 23 August, 2012 in Google, Information Literacy.
Tags: Google Knowledge Graph, internet, searching, website evaluation
Comments: 2
The end of the book as we know it, and I feel (mostly) fine.
I’m packing for an upcoming vacation and assembling my reading material. In addition to a backlog of unread New Yorkers, I’ll bring novels (mostly new fantasy and speculative fiction) that will keep me company in airports and at the lake. I’m trying to spend as little money as possible, and so I’m gathering Kindle books [...]
Posted: 15 August, 2012 in Books, Worth Reading.
Comments: 1
Summer Projects
Ah, summer! A time when we all get to take a deep breath and work on all those things we put off during the school year. I’ve always thought that summer at an academic library is sort of a strange time. Even though it feels more relaxed in and around campus, we’re still quite busy [...]
Posted: 9 August, 2012 in Buildings, Information Literacy, Just Thinking, Uncategorized.
Comments: 1
Calling All New Academic Librarians!
Longtime readers may remember our First Year Academic Librarian Experience series that ran a few years ago. With the Fall semester just around the corner, it’s likely that lots of folks will be stepping into a new position as an academic librarian soon, or have recently. While our ACRLog regular bloggers include both seasoned and [...]
Posted: 3 August, 2012 in First Year Academic Librarian Experience.
Comments: 3
