Category: Scholarship
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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…
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The future of libraries is yours. What are you going to do with it?
At the risk of being part of Brian’s echo chamber, I’m pointing to his recent piece in on LISjobs.com called Librarian As Entrepreneur: A Blueprint For Transforming Our Future. It’s a nice rallying call for what Brian’s calling the Next Now Generation. While this sort of stuff has been said before (I think), it’s good…
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What does a distance MLIS really cost?
A couple of months ago when Walt Crawford put out his Great Middle list of library blogs, I picked a few to watch in a separate folder before fully committing. One of the ones that graduated to my “real” subscription list is OPL Plus, the blog for librarians in one-person libraries, written by Judith Siess. …