Category: Scholarship
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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…
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CFP: Academic Exchange Quarterly articles on Online Learning
A Library Writer’s Blog has another DE-related CFP for you – The Academic Exchange Quarterly is soliciting articles for an issue dealing with Online Learning. Submissions are accepted until the end of August. Technorati Tags: Distance_Education
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New Peer-Reviewed Journal: Journal of Web Librarianship
Library Writer’s Blog reports the announcement of a new peer-reviewed journal called the Journal of Web Librarianship. Examples of topics appropriate for the Journal of Web Librarianship include but are not limited to: web page design, usability testing of library or library-related sites, cataloging or classification of Web information, international issues in web librarianship, scholars’…
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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…