Interest Group Advances Services To International Students
Did you know that the number of international students at about 3,000 U.S. colleges and universities rose 8% last year to a new high of 671,616. Big increases in students from China helped fuel the rise. As in other recent years, India once again sent the most students to the U.S., followed by China, South [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 3rd, 2010 under International, Student Issues.
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Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Good Example of Having Presence
In a previous post I wrote about the important of having presence if you want to be a leader in or beyond your library, and if you want to be perceived as a leader by others. If you are called upon to deliver a spur-of-the-moment, extemporaneous explanation of why your library [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 29th, 2010 under sudden thoughts.
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No Hand Sanitizer Found At ALA Exhibits
In advance of the American Library Association Midwinter Conference I reported that (scroll to the fourth item) 2009 was the year of hand sanitizer, and that little bottles of the stuff had surpassed pens as the number one giveaway item at professional conferences and trade shows.
So quite naturally I was curious to find out [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 25th, 2010 under Conference Blogging.
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Maureen Sullivan – ACRL Acdemic/Research Librarian Of The Year
Maureen Sullivan, owner of Maureen Sullivan Associates and Professor of Practice in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Ph.D. Program in Managerial Leadership, is the 2010 Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. The award, sponsored by YBP Library Services, recognizes an outstanding member of the [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 24th, 2010 under ACRL News.
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A Visit To The ACRL Booth
It’s always fun to stop by the ACRL booth at ALA Conferences to see who’s hanging out and who’s actually staffing the booth. Here’s what the booth is looking like these days:
The folks staffing the booth when I stopped by were Kathy Parsons (far left) of Iowa State University (who I had the pleasure of [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 20th, 2010 under Conference Blogging.
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