Archive for 'Technology Issues'
Odds & Ends & Useful Bits
Consider this post to be a little bit like that drawer in the kitchen where you put things because you don’t know where else to put them: buttons, an odd shoelace, a dead battery that may need recycling, that gadget that sculpts cucumbers into fancy shapes that you got for Christmas fifteen years ago, that [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on June 5th, 2009 under Open Access, Technology Issues.
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Innovation Moves Our Profession Forward
In a previous post I had a some fun pointing out some obsolete tools and technologies that were no longer important to the work of librarians. You must have had some fun with it as well. That post remains the most commented on one we’ve written here at ACRLog. Readers shared examples of their [...]
Posted by StevenB on May 26th, 2009 under Innovation, Technology Issues.
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Faculty Blog Round Up: Teaching with Technology
Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago we put out a call for someone to be our new faculty blog correspondent. With this post I’d like to introduce Laura Wimberley, the librarian we’ve selected to keep us up-to-date on what’s happening in the faculty blogosphere. Laura works at the Medical Center Library at the University [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on May 11th, 2009 under Faculty, In The Disciplines, Teaching, Technology Issues, Wikipedia, Worth Reading.
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Disruptive Technology Alert
A big news event in higher education being reported today (other than Blackboard acquiring Angel) is Amazon’s release of a new large-screen Kindle device that is specifically designed for the e-textbook market. Amazon organized a news conference and was joined by representatives from several different colleges and universities that will be testing the device to [...]
Posted by StevenB on May 7th, 2009 under Books, Technology Issues.
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Facebook or Facadebook?
From time to time a discussion on a list such as ILI-L generates a post so intriguing that I think it deserves a wider audience. (Not that ILI-L doesn’t have a wide audience; it has over 4,700 members!) I was so struck by Camilla Baker’s comments on Facebook - especially how her mayor uses it, [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on April 29th, 2009 under Marketing, Technology Issues.
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