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Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Good Example of Having Presence
In a previous post I wrote about the important of having presence if you want to be a leader in or beyond your library, and if you want to be perceived as a leader by others. If you are called upon to deliver a spur-of-the-moment, extemporaneous explanation of why your library [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 29th, 2010 under sudden thoughts.
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Cooperation or Duplication
Here’s an interesting project from a few libraries out west that have decided to cooperatively build a library of video instructional tutorials. So far the tutorials cover the usual things, such as popular vs. scholarly journals, why you need to cite sources, and how to develop search terms. The Cooperative Library Instruction Project [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 29th, 2009 under Teaching, sudden thoughts.
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Best Time to Write
Occasionally someone will ask me about my writing routine. How do I manage to write regularly? The most immediate thing that comes to mind is having something that really inspires you or gets you thinking, and that you feel compelled to write about it so you can share your ideas with colleagues. [...]
Posted by StevenB on November 20th, 2009 under sudden thoughts.
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A New Courseware Trend?
This news item caught my eye. It announces an agreement between Blackboard and NBC in which the former will now offer access to the latter’s content. It states:
Blackboard is providing academic users with access to historical multimedia resources from NBC Learn. The two companies today announced that that they’ve inked a deal [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 29th, 2009 under sudden thoughts.
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