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Tapping Your Inner Entrepreneur
Are you a Librarian Entrepreneur? You might be. Would you answer “yes” to these questions:
I am an opportunist.
I am a creative genius (or part of a creative work team)
I am persistent
I am customer focused
I connect the dots
I am passionate
I am a risk taker
According to my research in preparation for a talk at Inspiration, Innovation, Celebration: [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 24th, 2009 under Conference Blogging, Innovation, Uncategorized.
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Action-Reflection Action-Reflection
The ACRL final keynote speech was my first opportunity to hear from Ira Glass, the host of the public radio program This American Life. Glass used his presentation to give us a feel for how he puts together both his radio show and the stories he features there. There were many fans in the audience, [...]
Posted by StevenB on April 28th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Open Access - Just When We Need It
I’m sure many of us are in the same dismal place - trying to find ways to cope with flat or reduced budgets when costs of journals and electronic resources stubbornly rise year after year. The one bright spot that cheers me up is the steady march of open access initiatives. Boston University faculty voted [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on March 19th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Faculty Involvement Makes All The Difference
In a previous post I expressed my vision for the future of information literacy - and in that vision it’s not the librarians teaching students the skills needed to be wise consumers of information - it’s the faculty. That’s why this Wired Campus post caught my attention. It’s about two faculty members who wrote a [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 24th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Lies, Damned Lies and Pedagogy
Anne-Marie Deitering has a great post over at Infofetishist about the historical-hoax-as-pedagogy story that popped up in December. A professor at George Mason taught a course on historical hoaxes and had students create a hoax and spread it virally using social networking. It was so successful it fooled a lot of historians and got written [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 3rd, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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