Archive for 'Technology Issues'
New and Improved – or Not?
One of the lovely surprises awaiting those who have been away from the reference desk for a while is the numerous spanking new database interfaces that have sprouted up. There seem to be more than usual this year, and while some are improvements, others, frankly, need a good spanking. One that has us particularly flummoxed [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 24th, 2010 under Technology Issues.
Comments: 12
Add Cyberwar Contingencies To Your Disaster Plan
Two new reports from ACRL serve to remind the academic library community that our future is increasingly one based on digital collections and a virtual presence. Both the Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 and the 2010 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries point to the importance of paying attention to our [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 29th, 2010 under Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
Comments: 1
Seeking The Killer Connector For A Social Academic Library Site
Editors Note: I recently had the great pleasure of delivering a talk at the McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland. Afterwards Gavin Brown, Manager, Digital Technology Interface Services at the University of Maryland Libraries, and I chatted about ways in which academic libraries could do more to make their web sites social. Brown had [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 15th, 2010 under Technology Issues.
Comments: 13
Not So Native?
You may have seen a few news items recently about the millennial generation and technology. Last month’s issue of Sociological Inquiry published an article by Eszter Hargittai describing differences in internet skills among college students. And an article in The Economist last week quotes several scholars who emphasize that digital natives are not necessarily as [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on March 14th, 2010 under Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Comments: 3
Keeping Up With Learning Technologists
On Thursday May 21, 2009 John Shank and I had the pleasure of co-hosting an important webcast event held by the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community. Josh Kim and Barbara Knauff, Senior Learning Technologists at Dartmouth College co-presented a webcast titled “Becoming an Educational Change Agent”. The presentation was based on an article Kim and [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 10th, 2010 under Libraries and Learning, Technology Issues.
Comments: 1