Category: Scholarship
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Internet Librarian 2006 program announced
The program for Internet Librarian 2006 has just been posted. To be held Oct 23-25 in Monterey, CA, I attended for the first time last year and found it to be one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended. Full of cutting-edge ideas and interesting people. I’m honored to be speaking with Meredith Farkas on…
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Introducing WISPR – Workshop on the Information Search Process for Research
OK, here’s the final post about OffCamp 2006 in Savannah; I saved the best for last ;-), as this was the presentation I gave with Shauna Rutherford, my colleague from the U of C. The paper was actually written by three of us (though mostly by Shauna and Alix), but Dr. Alix Hayden wasn’t able…
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Moving Day: Making the Most of Your Message with RSS and Syndicated Content
Volume 52(2) of Feliciter, the Canadian Library Association’s bi-monthly publication, is a theme issue on Social Software (RSS, Blogs, Etc – Impact on Libraries, Staff and Clients) and was guest-edited by Geoff Harder at the U of Alberta. If you want to check out the entire issue and are a subscriber to Academic Search Premier,…
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OCLSC presentations now available online
Not every single one, but many of the presentations (mostly ppt) from last week’s Off Campus Library Services Conference are now available online. Technorati Tags: OCLSC06
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What Do Distance Education Faculty Want from the Library?
This was the last presentation of the conference, and was delivered by Samantha Schmehl Hines of the University of Montana-Missoula to a packed room. In preparation for launching a survey for faculty at her own institution, Samantha looked at 13 surveys of what faculty members wanted from the library (all listed in her bibliography). The…
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Journal of Library and Information Services for Distance Learning in trouble?
I chatted with Stephen Dew at the opening reception the other night ant learned that he’s stepping down as editor of JLISDL. Stephen’s technically the 2nd editor for this young journal, and as column editor I’m aware that it seems to be pretty difficult to raise content for this publication. Not really sure why that…
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What’s in it for me?
A little rant based on a couple of the presentations I’ve seen here in Savannah. This mirrors several of the wrap-up posts I saw after Computers in Libraries earlier this spring. I come to conferences first and foremost to get new ideas for services I can implement back home. I want to be able to…
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Microsoft Academic Search launches
Well it was supposed to launch yesterday, and I guess it did sometime late last night, but Microsoft’s Academic Search (beta!) is now live. I’m on vacation for the next week so really won’t have a chance to run through it until then, but you can get up to speed with Steven, Dean and Gary.
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Microsoft’s Academic Search
Maybe it’s just me, but the impending launch of Microsoft’s version of Google Scholar, Academic Search, seems to be slipping up without much notice in the blogosphere. They’ve mentioned it at Search Engine Watch, but apparently a week or so ago three of our colleagues were invited to Redmond to give the product a spin…
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The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.”
Educause Review has a short editorial called The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.” The article seems to bounce back and forth a little between what I would call technology literacy and information literacy, but the overall points are the same; that while students coming in to higher education today are…