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Spaces and Places: Closing Keynote for Internet Librarian 2012
Apologies for the delay on getting this one up – I had a bit of a time finding a simple solution to host a very large (over 100mb) powerpoint presentation. Slideboom to the rescue!: Here's the whole thing (pptx) if you'd like to download it. In this talk Erik Boekesteijn, Jaap Van de Geer, Jeff Wisniewski and
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Students and Technology – Educause Infographic
Here's an interesting infographic from Educause- 2012 Students and Technology (PDF). One snippet to whet your appetite:
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Tomorrow’s Library Today – Internet Librarian 2012
So you may have noticed I haven't been blogging much over the past year or so. In part, this presentation explains why. At the University of Calgary we (not so) recently opened a new building, the Taylor Family Digital Library (aka TFDL). I was heavily involved not so much in choosing, but in implementing a
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PSA – Zombie Season Approaches
We’re within a week of Halloween, so the zombie references are popping out of the woodwork. First up, CommonCraft has updated their previous video, Zombies Explained: Next, from the Zombie Research Society, we have a scientific look at what might be going on in a zombie’s brain to make it a zombie: Zombies seem to
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Upcoming Webinar: “Start with Summon”: Information Literacy in the Age of Web-Scale Discovery
Note the Distance Education angle in this upcoming Webinar from Serials Solutions: “Start with Summon” is what novice and experience researchers at Royal Roads University hear. Easy for novices and great for experienced researchers conducting interdisciplinary searches, the Summon service exposes students to many things they might not otherwise find. How are students introduced to
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