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Comment on Ebooks Are not Electronic Journals by Lisa Horowitz

Lisa Horowitz — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:08:30 +0000

Absolutely! Here’s a different take on ebooks. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/06/digital-e-books-format/

Comment on 3-D Printers by imccullough

imccullough — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:26:47 +0000

Our library just got our 3-D printer; we’ll see how it works out.

Comment on Shifting the Focus: Fostering Academic Integrity on Campus by Marlene Heroux

Marlene Heroux — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:16:54 +0000

Great video. For academic year 2007/2008 (2 years prior to the Norway video) Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts created a very similar plagiarism series of 3 videos showing the pitfalls of plagiarism using the Dickens Theme (the library has a major Dickens Archive Collection) under an LSTA grant from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Here are all three links:

Part 1 – Pun Intended – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_RjFr_LWlc

Part 2 – Princess of Internal Affairs – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W__4G8xBKqE

Part 3 – Phantom of Interrogation – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvxDoKOlQjs

Comment on Shared Governance and Library Faculty: Jazzing Academic Community by Caught My Eye 6/4/13 | Against-the-Grain.com

Caught My Eye 6/4/13 | Against-the-Grain.com — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:08:00 +0000

[...] Shared Governance and Library Faculty: Jazzing Academic Community appeared in ACRLog and is a guest post from Sue Wiegand, Periodicals Librarian at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. Sue recounts her experience as the first librarian to serve as Chair of her Faculty Assembly and in the process touches on issues of shared governance, faculty status, promotion, and librarians getting “to be a full academic citizen.” (Sue has also contributed pieces to Against the Grain including The Continuing Dilemma of Defining Databases: the New Digital Normal and Multigrain Discussion: The 12 Planets and the Unidentified Flying Elephant [...]

Comment on What I Gained With My MLIS by Camille Cooper

Camille Cooper — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:59:52 +0000

I’m familiar with a work entitled _The Medium is the Massage_ by Marshall McLuhan, rather than Marshall McLaughlin. Did McLaughlin write a commentary piece on McLuhan’s work?

Comment on The Question They Forgot To Ask by Ithaka Survey Reports Rising Faculty 'Ambivalence'; Toward Campus Libraries

Ithaka Survey Reports Rising Faculty 'Ambivalence'; Toward Campus Libraries — Fri, 31 May 2013 18:42:45 +0000

[...] many are surely still digesting the significant amount of data in the just-released report. On the ACRL blog, however, Steven Bell noted a key limitation. “Where this study seems dated to me is that it [...]

Comment on What I Gained With My MLIS by joan huenemann michie

joan huenemann michie — Thu, 30 May 2013 18:49:27 +0000

My MLS included a great deal of literature and storytelling emphasis and it has served me very well. I have worked in all kinds of libraries, schools and a bookstore. I am constantly told by students how much they appreciate my real knowledge of literature of all kinds. Stories matter – so get educated and take that content and those skills into our world. We need less of info bits and more skills and appreciation for real in depth education and research. We are all living stories, so learn to share and promote stories.

Comment on What I Gained With My MLIS by Maura Smale

Maura Smale — Mon, 27 May 2013 16:20:50 +0000

Your Classification Theory class sounds so interesting, Rebecca, I wish I’d had a class like that in my graduate program. I was one of those folks who came to library school without any practical library experience (and who couldn’t work in a library while in graduate school), so I really needed those core librarian courses. But many of the nontraditional courses I took were useful, too. I also think it’s important to remember that the MLIS isn’t unique — I’d guess that in any graduate program (or undergraduate) there will be courses that are more useful/relevant and those that seem less useful/relevant. Trying to arrange to take more of the former and fewer of the latter was one of my primary goals in all of my graduate coursework.

Comment on Shared Governance and Library Faculty: Jazzing Academic Community by Barbara Fister

Barbara Fister — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:04:07 +0000

Bravo! And congratulations on the trust you’ve engendered as a faculty colleague.

We’re unusual in that our (small but perfectly formed) library faculty operates as an academic department which, at our college, means sharing leadership. We elect a chair rather than having a director. The non-faculty staff are fully involved in decisions that affect their work and have shouldered responsibilities that not only require leadership, they really don’t need to be supervised as they know what they are doing. Technically the chair is the supervisor, but it’s more accurate to say “listening post, problem solver, and advocate” rather than supervisor. It works well for us.

I will ponder that effort to bring trust and a common future into being. Great post.

Comment on Evaluating Information: The Light Side of Open Access by rob virkar-yates

rob virkar-yates — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:02:39 +0000

My issue with Beale is his neocolonialism. I was interested to conduct some initial research that may indicate that 65% of Beale’s predatory publishers are actually based in the US.
http://www.semantico.com/2013/05/are-predatory-publishers-an-american-export/