Category: Scholarship
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Call for Chapters – casebook on online information literacy programs
As noted on the OffCamp listserv, and in A Library Writer’s Blog, there is a call for chapters for an upcoming casebook on online information literacy programs. Chapter proposals are due on or before Sept. 30, and if accepted, they’ll be looking for about 15-pages by Feb 2007. “The goal of the book is to…
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Wiki Webcast Week
In addition to Meredith’s wiki webcast this Thursday, the authors of Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom, S. Pixy Ferris and Hilary Wilder, will be participating in a free webcast for Innovate, the Journal of Online Education. This is a neat idea in that Innovate invites people to interact with the authors of…
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An introduction to Screencasting – SirsiDynix Institute
Just posted on the SirsiDynix Institute future seminars page is notice of my Wed, Nov 8 session entitled Show and Tell the Easy Way – an Introduction to Screencasting. It runs from 11am-12 EST (8-9am PST) and should also be available after the fact as a recorded session and audio-only podcast, though I do plan…
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I’m currently #6…
The other day I was poking around on the Haworth website trying to answer a question about the current status of the Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning, when I stumbled across this page showing the top ten articles that have been downloaded from this title (any institution with a paper subscription…
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Brief Survey on Document Delivery / Interlibrary Loan
Michelle at Western Michigan University has a very brief survey on how your students access Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery systems at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=120282309518. It’s only 8 questions long – can you take a moment to fill it out for her? Technorati Tags: document_delivery, surveys
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Instruction via Instant Messaging reference: what’s happening?
An article from the most recent issue of The Electronic Library: Title: Instruction via Instant Messaging reference: what’s happening?Author(s): Christina M. Desai, Stephanie J. GravesJournal: The Electronic LibraryISSN: 0264-0473Year: 2006Volume: 24Issue: 2Page: 174-189DOI: 10.1108/02640470610660369Publisher:Emerald Group Publishing Limited Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this study is to analyze one Instant Messaging (IM) reference service to determine to what extent instruction is or can…
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ALA Programs of possible Interest to DLS members
The DLS Liaison Committee has compiled a list of programs at ALA Annual in New Orleans later this month, that may be of interest to the DLS membership. This was originally sent to the OFFCAMP mailing list: Friday, June 23(Pre-Conference) Reinvented Reference: The Integration of Digital and Traditional Reference Services — 8:00 a.m. – 4:30…
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CFP: IRSQ – special issue focusing on social software and libraries
Michael Stephens has posted that he’s editing an upcoming issue of Internet Reference Services Quarterly: Internet Reference Services Quarterly, a refereed journal published by The Haworth Press Inc., invites proposals for a special issue focusing on social software and libraries. The issue (12/3) will tentatively be published in Winter 2007, edited by Michael Stephens, Instructor,…
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Controlling Intellectual Property: The Academic Community and the Future of Knowledge
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is presenting a conference in Ottawa Oct 27-29, 2006 on the future of Intellectual Property: From Friday, October 27 to Sunday, October 29, 2006, academic staff, students, policy makers and members of the general public will gather to discuss and debate the place of intellectual property in the…