Category: Scholarship
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Call for Proposals for Access 2008
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaDate: October 1-3, 2008 (Hackfest: Oct 1; Conference: Oct 2-4)CFP Deadline: Friday, February 22, 2008URL: http://access2008.mcmaster.ca Access is Canada’s premier library technology conference, featuring a single stream of sessions that deal with technology planning, development, challenges and solutions. We are now accepting proposals for prepared talks on the following topics (other ideas…
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Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online
A new book from ACRL: Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online. Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online describes significant and innovative online instruction programs in a straightforward, narrative way, focusing on the development, implementation, and assessment of each institution’s online information…
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Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Students
Posted to the Web4Lib mailing group: Primary Research Group (http://www.primaryreserch.com/) is planning to publish a survey of college libraries that provide library services to distance learning students. This survey is open to accredited colleges from all countries. Participants receive a free PDF copy of the estimated 100-page report. Data is broken out by type and…
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Evaluating Remote Reference Service: A Practical Guide to Problems and Solutions
From the most recent issue of portal: Libraries and the Academy (Volume 8, Number 1, January 2008): Pomerantz, Jeffrey. Mon, Lorri M. McClure, Charles R. Evaluating Remote Reference Service: A Practical Guide to Problems and Solutions[Access article in HTML] [Access article in PDF] Subject Headings: Electronic reference services (Libraries) — United States — Evaluation. Academic…
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AAAS Says Science Will Remain in JSTOR
No real details, but Library Journal reports that: Under pressure from libraries for its 2007 decision to pull its flagship publication, Science, from JSTOR, the popular electronic journals database, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) said today that it has reversed course, and that Science will remain in JSTOR. Citing a confidentiality…
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MIT Lecture Browser
From Carolyn Kotlas at TL INFOBITS: This fall researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released the MIT Lecture Browser, “a web interface to video recordings of lectures and seminars that have been indexed using automatic speech recognition technology.” Users can search on terms or phrases and then play the video at the point(s) in…
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ACRL 2007 Environmental Scan
Last Spring the Research Committee of ACRL proposed their top ten assumptions for the future of academic and research libraries. They’ve just released the latest version and are looking for comments for ALA Midwinter. The 2007 environmental scan by the Research Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries (available at http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/Environmental_Scan_2.pdf ) (29…
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CFP: Inaugural Conference of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education
Just posted is a call for papers for the Inaugural Conference of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, April 27-30, 2008. The deadline is January 15. Banff is kinda one of the prettiest spots in the world – you should think about visiting!
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January Innovate-Live Webcast Schedule
FYI – some good-looking sessions on January 10th: Innovate (www.innovateonline.info) is published bimonthly as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University and is sponsored, in part, by Microsoft. Innovate-Live webcasts, produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn, allow you to synchronously interact with authors on…