Archive for 'Conference Blogging'
A Full Day of Information Literacy
Last week I went to the ACRL New England chapter’s Library Instruction Group (NELIG) annual program Meeting Digital Natives Where They Are: New Standards for the New Student. This was my first conference entirely devoted to library instruction, and it was great to have the opportunity to think and talk about information literacy all day.
The [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on June 12th, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Information Literacy, Teaching.
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Making Conferencing Comfortable
Editor’s Note: ACRLog is hosting a team of ALA Emerging Leaders. Each month one of our Emerging Leaders will contribute a guest post, and each will focus on some aspect of gearing up for the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Next up in the series is a personal reflection on being mentored at the [...]
Posted by StevenB on May 12th, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Student Issues.
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Envisioning the Academy’s Digital Future
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to attend a fantastic symposium: The Digital University: Power Relations, Publishing, Authority and Community in the 21st Century Academy, held at the CUNY Graduate Center here in New York City. The day was chock full of presentations and conversations on the implications of digital technologies on teaching, [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on April 23rd, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Faculty, Open Access, Scholarly Communications.
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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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One Search Box to Rule Them All
This guest post by Amy Fry, Electronic Resources Coordinator at Bowling Green State University’s Jerome Library, is a timely reflection on Midwinter and on current events that have us all wondering how to strike a balance between convenient access and dependence on a few powerful vendors.
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Discovery services, as you can imagine, were a big topic [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 22nd, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Technology Issues.
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