Archive for 'Books'
Browsing, Searching and Finding
January always brings lots of discussion about the future, and probably even more so this year now that we’re a decade into the second millennium. Collections are central in much talk about the future of academic libraries, which naturally leads me to thoughts about browsing.
I have a confession to make: I don’t browse through academic [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on January 14th, 2010 under Books, Just Thinking.
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My College Advice? Learn How To Do Research
The New York Times recently asked 7 academics to offer advice to students entering college. If they had asked me, my advice would have been to learn how to do research, to practice it, and get really good at it.
Of course, as an academic librarian, I may be biased. But as someone [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on September 11th, 2009 under Books, Buildings, Information Literacy, Student Issues.
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Faculty Blog Round-Up: Writing Books
At the peak of summer, many faculty are in deep research mode, especially with longer projects, like books, that require the kind of travel or in-depth work they can’t schedule during the semester. Here’s an overview of the book-writing process from the inside
Dr. Crazy, an anonymous literature professor, is beginning to ponder her topic.
Anthropologist Auto [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on July 24th, 2009 under Books, Faculty, Peer Review, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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The Organization of Information
My husband (a philosophy professor) and I (a librarian and former bookstore manager) just finished cataloging our entire book collection into LibraryThing. You can only imagine the number of bookshelves in our house, right? For Valentine’s Day I gave him an LT lifetime subscription and he gave me one of their CueCat scanners, and we [...]
Posted by ssmith on May 20th, 2009 under Books, First Year Academic Librarian Experience, library careers.
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Disruptive Technology Alert
A big news event in higher education being reported today (other than Blackboard acquiring Angel) is Amazon’s release of a new large-screen Kindle device that is specifically designed for the e-textbook market. Amazon organized a news conference and was joined by representatives from several different colleges and universities that will be testing the device to [...]
Posted by StevenB on May 7th, 2009 under Books, Technology Issues.
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