Archive for 'Higher Education'
The education vs. indoctrination debate
I’m the RSS reader type who subscribes to a little bit of everything and then doesn’t really pay attention to which is which when skimming through the feeds (let’s just say “detail oriented” doesn’t go on my resume). Yet somehow in the melee of my reader, the Digital Reference blog keeps getting my attention. It’s [...]
Posted by Kim Leeder on May 15th, 2008 under Higher Education, Information Ethics, Open Access.
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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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An Academic Freedom Quiz
As a profession we’ve spent lots of time debating academic freedom and tenure for academic librarians. Do academic librarians need the protections of academic freedom? If not, why do they need tenure? If yes, why are some on the tenure track and not others? These are questions for which there are no easy answers. But [...]
Posted by StevenB on April 8th, 2008 under Higher Education.
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Why are You a Librarian?
No, that isn’t meant to be said in the voice of a slightly-tipsy relative at a family gathering. You? A librarian? Why on earth . . .
It’s an invitation to a meme started over at Free Exchange on Campus, where I occasionally blog. It was inspired by Dr. Crazy’s wonderful post, “Why I Teach [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 28th, 2008 under Faculty, Higher Education, In The Disciplines, Information Literacy.
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This Brainstorm Could Be Good For You
Though I suspect it didn’t have the desired outcome, I’m still glad I made the effort to expose ACRLog readers to some faculty blogs in parts one and two of the Carnival of the Professoriate. I’d still like to think that academic librarians can benefit from occasional reading of faculty blogs. But if faculty blogs, [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 17th, 2007 under Faculty, Higher Education.
Comments: 2