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  • Calgary Mini Maker Faire = Awesome fun!

    I took the kids down to the East Village today for the inaugural Calgary Mini Maker Faire, and we all had a blast! I've been wanting to get involved somehow in the maker movement for quite some time, but never made the effort to get down to our local hacker lab, Protospace. That'll probably change

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  • Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning Summer Reading List

    Just received via email: The Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning is excited to offer FREE access to its Summer Reading List: a collection of Editor selected articles from its archives centered on the theme of Online Instruction. Articles include: Using Adobe Connect to Deliver Online Library Instruction to the RN to

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  • Canadian Learning Commons Conference Proceedings

    On May 7-9, 2012 the University of Calgary hosted the 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference. The theme of the conference was New Media, New Fluencies and Life Skills Development: Preparing Learners for the 21st Century. The proceedings for that conference have now been posted in the UofC Institutional Repository. Enjoy!

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  • What about those graduate students?

    Maybe it's because I don't actually look for it, but it seems that most of the research / survey results I see is geared towards learning about how undergrads use / perceive the library, and services surrounding information seeking.  JISC and The British Library have just released a "major study into the behavioural habits of

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  • The Fourth International m-libraries Conference

    Registration for the Fourth International m-libraries Conference is now open. The conference will be held 24-26 September 2012 at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. The main theme for the conference this year is "From margin to mainstream: mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries". I attended the 2nd m-libraries conference in Vancouver in 2009 and found it quite useful. Won't

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