Archive for category Student Issues
Convenience and its Discontents: Teaching Web-Scale Discovery in the Context of Google
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Pete Coco, formerly of Grand Valley State University, now Humanities Liaison at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. With the continued improvements being made to web-scale discovery tools like Proquest’s Summon and EBSCO’s Discovery Service, access to library resources is reaching a singularity of sorts: frictionless searching. Providing a unified [...]
Posted: 27 January, 2012 in Student Issues, Teaching, Technology Issues.
Tags: discovery tools, Google, internet, web searching
Comments: 27
Collision Spaces
Please welcome Laura Braunstein to the ACRLog team. Laura is the English Language and Literature Librarian at Dartmouth College’s Baker-Berry Library. She has a doctorate in English from Northwestern University, where she taught writing and literature classes. She has worked as an index editor for the MLA International Bibliography, and serves as a consultant for [...]
Posted: 24 January, 2012 in Buildings, Faculty, Student Issues.
Tags: community, library as place
Comments: 8
On Technologies and Library Space
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Maura Seale, Research and Instruction Librarian at Georgetown University Library. Now that the fall semester instruction rush is over, I have been able to spend some time catching up on my library blog reading as well as my own research. I recently read this post on Academic Librarian about [...]
Posted: 28 November, 2011 in Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Tags: library as place, photo study, printers
Comments: 5
Publishing Fat Cats, Collection Curation, and Serving Today’s Patron
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Heidi Steiner, Distance Learning Librarian at Norwich University. The greatest reflection I find myself having following this year’s LJ/SLJ Ebook Summit is only vaguely about ebooks. Instead my mind is circling around balance. I tuned in to the “Marketing Ebooks to Students” panel ready for ideas about how I [...]
Posted: 3 November, 2011 in Books, Student Issues.
Tags: collections, distance learning, ebooks, patron-driven acquisition, scholarly publishing, students
Comments: 5
If You Give a Student an iPad…
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Veronica A. Wells, Access Services/Music Librarian at University of the Pacific. You can find her online at Euterpean Librarian. If you give a student an iPad…she will ask for Angry Birds. This is one of the many lessons I learned when I handed four students each an iPad at [...]
Posted: 30 October, 2011 in Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Tags: iPad, library workshop, students, tablet computing
Comments: 5
