Category: Scholarship
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Synchronous Learning Expert Online Program
Even though it’s steeply discounted, this one’s too expensive for me, but if you’ve got no other way to get up to speed on teaching in an online environment, this is probably a really good way to go. Synchronous Learning Expert Online ProgramDescription: WebJunction and Insync Training Present a professional development program in e-learning for…
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Your own personal repository
So you say you work at a smaller academic institution without an institutional repository, or even in a non-academic setting? But you still publish work related to Library and Information Science? Have I got a site for you! I know I’m not the first to find it, but I haven’t seen it mentioned as much…
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Citation Managers Galore
We have the web-based RefWorks here at the U of C, and are in the middle of a big marketing campaign for it. It’s pretty slick, but if you don’t have it at your school (or, gasp! don’t go to school), what are you to do? Lorcan Dempsy points to a long list of suggestions…
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ProQuest – Scholarly Journals, Trade Publications, and Popular Magazines
This is certainly not a new resource, but it’s one I keep misplacing, so I’m sticking it here where I know I’ll be able to find it again 🙂 It’s a two-page PDF chart that addresses the following criteria in helping students determine if a journal is scholarly or not: Appearance, Content, and Publising (with…
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Using interactive technology to teach info lit concepts to undergrads
That’s a shortened version of an article title I just finished: Armstrong, A. & Georgas, H. (2006). Using Interactive technology to teach information literacy concepts to undergraduates. Reference Services Review, Vol. 34(4) pp. 491-497. Just a short article describing how they put together a flash tutorial to teach some basic boolean concepts (specifically, AND), and…
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Schedule of DLS Meeting rooms for ALA Midwinter 2007 in Seattle
Johanna writes to the OFFCAMP mailing list: For those of you who like to start planning early, here is the schedule of meeting rooms for the DLS meetings at ALA Midwinter 2007 in Seattle: All Committees Meeting 1/21/07 Sunday 8-12 at the Westin Seattle Room in Grand Ballroom II Executive Meeting 1/21/07 Sunday 4-6 at…
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Adobe PRIMO Sites of the Month (October and November 2006)
Found on Laurie the Librarian’s blog, announcements for the October and November ALA/ACRL PRIMO (Peer-Reviewed Instructional Material Online) sites of the month. October’s is made with Adobe Breeze, and November’s with Adobe Captivate. Quick takeaways for me: I didn’t realize Breeze supported ppt slide transitions as well as it does. That’s the way to deliver…
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ACRL/ARL Webcast on Author’s Rights
Registration is now open for a special joint Webcast “Author Rights.” Webcast Date: December 14, 2006 Webcast Time: noon to 1 p.m. Pacific, 1-2 p.m. Mountain, 2-3 p.m. Central, 3-4 p.m. Eastern Length: 1 hour ACRL and ARL, through the Institute on Scholarly Communication, along with SPARC are sponsoring a special joint Webcast on author…
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If you build it, will they learn?
I recently finished the following article: If you buld it, will they learn? Assessing online information literacy tutorials, by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, Lara Cummings, Corey M. Johnson and B. Jane Scales, College and Research Libraries, September 2006, Vol. 67, No. 2. Should be freely available online around March. Here’s the abstract: With the support of…