Archive for category Technology Issues
Clickers, or Does Technology Really Cure What Ails You?
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Cori Strickler, Information Literacy Librarian at Bridgewater College.
During idle times at the reference desk, or when the students are gone for a break, I find myself creating instruction “wish lists” of tools or gadgets that I’d love to have for my sessions. One item that has been on my [...]
Posted: 22 November, 2011 in Assessment, Teaching, Technology Issues.
Tags: clickers, experimentation, library instruction, students
Comments: 3
Once More to the Breach
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Mark Herring, Dean of Library Services at Winthrop University.
Summer’s over, I know, but we must go once more to the breach of web privacy. A California librarian recently complained about Amazon’s new Kindle ebooks lending program for libraries. The complaint focuses on Amazon’s privacy policy and advertising. In a [...]
Posted: 18 November, 2011 in Books, Information Ethics, Privacy, Technology Issues.
Tags: amazon, ebooks, ereaders, Facebook, web
Comments: -
Smartphones in the Library
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, a student at Arcadia University in Philadelphia who completing is her Masters with a focus in School Library Media Specialty.
Finding the right technology to use in the library, particularly the kind of devices that will best suit the largest number of patrons, can be an arduous task [...]
Posted: 12 November, 2011 in Libraries and Community, Technology Issues.
Tags: library website, QR codes, research resources, smartphones, web toolbar
Comments: 2
“We Don’t Read That Way”
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Laura Braunstein, English Language and Literature Librarian at Dartmouth College.
I was chatting recently with a professor in my liaison department who was beginning research for a new book. Did she have everything she needed? Was there anything I should look into ordering? Yes, she said, the library was [...]
Posted: 9 November, 2011 in Books, Faculty, Technology Issues.
Tags: ebooks, Faculty, reading, scholarship, tenure and promotion
Comments: 24
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 a [...]
Posted: 30 October, 2011 in Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Tags: iPad, library workshop, students, tablet computing
Comments: 5
