Archive for 'Faculty'
The Chronicles of Academia
I had the great honor recently to be invited to speak to a class at my alma mater (the LEEP Program at the University of Illinois). The Instruction class, taught by Melissa Wong, was finishing up their work and had myself and Chad Kahl of Illinois State University dialed in for a little Q [...]
Posted by Josh Petrusa on May 7th, 2008 under Faculty, Information Literacy, LIS Education.
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Web 2.0 and Open Science
Drexel University Libraries’ annual Scholarly Communication Symposium focused on web 2.0 in general and open science in particular. This is fast becoming my favorite conference: I can walk there; it’s free; it’s well organized; everyone there is smart, friendly and from diverse backgrounds; you get to eat a great lunch and it’s all over by [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on April 18th, 2008 under Conference Blogging, Faculty, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues.
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Tenure in the Faculty Blogosphere
“The tenure process is intensive and demanding.” So say Richard Danner and Barbara Bintliff in the article that Steven B quotes in his Academic Freedom Quiz post (Richard A. Danner and Barbara Bintliff in Legal Reference Services Quarterly, V. 25 (4) 2006, pp. 17). And so say many in the faculty blogosophere in this [...]
Posted by Stephanie Willen Brown on April 17th, 2008 under Faculty, Higher Education.
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Why Our Colleagues Teach
As an academic librarian, it’s useful for me to be aware of what faculty in my liaison discipline are researching, publishing, and thinking about — that helps me provide them with better support, buy better resources (print & online) to support their work, and just generally be more collegial with them. I volunteered to [...]
Posted by Stephanie Willen Brown on March 5th, 2008 under Faculty, Teaching.
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Go To The Academic Library For A No-Tech Assignment
This may be just one more sign that some faculty still have a disconnect with what’s happening in a 21st century academic library. While reviewing the transcript from this week’s Chronicle Brown Bag Live Discussion session with teaching expert Barbara Gross Davis I was drawn to one exchange about teaching with technology. Davis gave a [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 22nd, 2008 under Faculty, Libraries and Learning, Technology Issues.
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