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First Annual Open Education Week – March 5-10, 2012

Feb 23, 2012

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in Ideas, Scholarship, Service, Social Networks, Web/Tech

The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces the first annual Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are high-quality, free and open educational materials that offer opportunities for people anywhere…

Libraries & the Post-PC era

Feb 12, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, m-libraries, Scholarship, Social Networks, Web/Tech

Jason Griffey's currently Down Under, and last week he gave a plenary address at VALA2012 entitled Libraries & the Post-PC era. The whole address is available online, and it's a good use of an hour of your time. When it started, I remembered a quote I'd heard a while back that if a keynote speaker said…

How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box

Feb 9, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Discovery, Ideas, Scholarship, Service, Web/Tech

A preprint from College & Research Libraries is well worth your read, even if you're not a webmaster: How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box (from NCSU, Cory Lown, Tito Sierra, and Josh Boyer) Abstract Academic libraries are turning increasingly to unified search solutions to simplify search and discovery of library resources. Unfortunately, very…

Call for nominations – Springhare Innovation in Academic Libraries Award

Feb 9, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Scholarship, Service

The Academic Division of SLA is very proud to present for the second year an award for academic libraries, sponsored by Springshare, Inc., creator of LibGuides! This annual award recognizes a new program or service that demonstrates an innovative approach to academic librarianship. Please feel free to distribute to all innovative academic libraries you may…

Thanks for nothing, big guys (UofT and UWO cave to Access Copyright)

Feb 8, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Books, Legal, Scholarship, Service

This made a big splash up here in Canada last week, but then seemed to quickly quiet down, and I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong spots. Read many of the details on the Excess Copyright blog, but as Howard Knopf points out, "In an astonishing development that has caught all…

CFP: Fourth International M-Libraries Conference

Feb 8, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in m-libraries, Scholarship, Service, Social Networks

Found onthe m-libraries blog, information about the call for papers for the 4th M-Libraries Conference, to be held at The Open University on 24th-26th September, 2012. The Open University is headquartered in Milton Keynes, UK. Please submit your abstracts (up to 300 words) by 15th of March 2012 to m-libraries-conference@open.ac.uk

CFP: Extend and Unify: Outreach and Education for Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy Programs

Feb 5, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Books, Ideas, Scholarship

Call for Proposals: Book chapters on scholarly communication and information literacy Title: Extend and Unify: Outreach and Education for Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy ProgramsBook editors: Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communication Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University and Merinda Kaye Hensley, Instructional Services Librarian/Coordinator, Scholarly Commons at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Estimated publication date: ALA…

Canadian Learning Commons Conference – registration now open

Feb 2, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Scholarship, Social Networks

Looking for an excuse to come check out our awesome new library building? Why not register for the 6th Canadian Learning Commons Conference, to be held here at the University of Calgary, May 7-9, 2012. The theme of the conference is New Media, New Fluencies and Life Skills Development: Preparing Learners for the 21st Century, and…

Mentoring a New Distance Education Librarian

Jan 19, 2012

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Paul R. Pival

in Books, Scholarship, Service

A newish book popped up for me on an ego alert, and I learned that Mentoring in Librarianship: Essays on Working with Adults and Students to Further the Profession contains a chapter specifically on Mentoring a New Distance Education Librarian (it’s chapter 27, written by Annie Knight). It’s also available on Amazon, where you can…

That’s what I said! (student awareness of ebook usage)

Dec 6, 2011

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Paul R. Pival

in Books, Discovery, Linking, Scholarship

Last week I got an email from ebrary as a followup to their recent survey on ebook usage. The following paragraph caught my eye (emphasis mine), Some of the results were surprising. For instance, patron awareness of e-books has not increased over the last three years and reported usage of e-books has not increased significantly…

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