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Chutes and ladders
In spite of the fact that I've had one of those all-day sinus headaches, I'm walking on a cloud. Starting April 1, I'm going to be the Head of Instructional…
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Building 21st century librarians AND libraries
There were three recent posts that got me thinking a lot about the growing necessity to have tech-savvy people in public services positions. The first was Dorothea Salo's post about…
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Getting out of a rut
Since our Coordinator of Public Services left, I've been the liaison to the social sciences along with being the liaison to the School of Graduate Studies (whose programs are all…
We have wiki!
Library Research Guides wiki Originally uploaded by librarianmer A while back, I wrote about the challenges I had in finding the right platform for our subject guides. Well, I'm pleased…
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At the top of my must-read list
I can't wait to get my hands on this! Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online Edited by Alice Daugherty and Michael F. Russo,…
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When are we doing enough?
Since I got to Norwich, my main priority has been to ensure that the distance learners have access to all the information they need to do research through the library.…
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Online learning and its impact on public libraries
I've been wanting to comment on this thought-provoking post by Carleen at Woodsy + Wired (a pretty new blog) for a few weeks now and just haven't had the time.…
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Should we take off those training-wheels?
no more training wheels Originally uploaded by shadycat I've been reading a number of interesting posts on the "training-wheels culture" from Dorothea Salo, Nicole Engard, and Emily Clasper. As I've…
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Respect my Authority
When I read Michael Gorman's two-part blog post (yes, I said blog post; if that isn't the height of irony...) to respect the wisdom of the expert over the wisdom…
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Do they care what they’re looking at?
About a week before I left for my vacation, Paul Pival, Ken Varnum and David Rothman had an interesting distributed discussion about how students are perceiving the research literature and…
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Zotero – is this what we’ve been waiting for?
I got my library a trial of RefWorks this summer (with the way our distance learners do school work -- often at home and work -- it makes much more…
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Selling information literacy — reflections after one year
The other day, I got an e-mail from a reader of my blog: "You mentioned in one of your more recent posts that you've learned what works and what doesn't…
