Category: Scholarship
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Internet Librarian 2005
Internet Librarian 2005 runs from October 24-26 in Moterey, CA. Call for speakers has a deadline of March 15, 2005. I’ve always wanted to go to this conference, will this year be the year?
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Mentors needed
Interested in mentoring a librarian in the research process? Right now, librarians have an opportunity to submit a proposal for the Off-Campus Library Services Conference in 2006, and the conference organizers are very interested in seeing more research-related proposals. If you would like mentor a librarian, email me at tunon@nova.edu and I will pair you…
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Publishing opportunity
The following showed up in my email box today – oddly enough not on any of my DE lists: Library Instruction Publications is seeking contributions for a forthcoming publication: Empowering Distance Learners with Hands-on Information Literacy Activities. Empowering Distance Learners will be a bit different from prior works published by Library Instruction Publications. It is…
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Off-Campus Library Services Conference-Scholarship
Any students or new distance librarians out there interested in a free trip to Savannah next year? Connie Hildebrand has just announced the following: The Executive Board of the Off-Campus Library Services Conference is pleased to announce that a scholarship has been initiated to help library students and new librarians attend the Off-Campus Library Services…
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eLiteracy Conference 2005 :: Welcome to eLit 2005
This may have been announced before (I suspect so, as the deadline for the CFP is January 28th), but the 4th International Conference on eLiteracy is being held in Glasgow, Scotland from June 15-17. A couple of my colleagues presented at this conference when it was last held in Glasgow in 2003; they really enjoyed…
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Online Assessment Tools
Sherri just posted about something called PHP Surveyor, which looks nice and nifty, but I don’t know anything about PHP and SQL, and I’ll be most of you don’t either. Just the other day, a colleague pointed me towards a free hosted assessment tool called FAST, which stands for (are you ready?) Free Assessment Summary…
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IRRODL: CIDER is Born
Hmmm, interesting information for our Canadian readers. The most recent issue of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning introduces us to a new initiative called CIDER, the Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research. It appears to be a clearinghouse for, well, distance education research in Canada. There’s pretty much nothing there…
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Distance Teaching: Comparing Two Online Information Literacy Courses
From Volume 30, Issue 6 of The Journal of Academic Librarianship Distance Teaching: Comparing Two Online Information Literacy Courses Pages 482-487 Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay(These links should work if your institution has Science Dirct) This article compares the author’s experience teaching a for-credit information literacy course through two different institutions. Lots of background on the way…
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Full stream ahead: database instruction through online videos
Just finished a really good article in the most recent issue of Library Hi Tech: Title: Full stream ahead: database instruction through online videosAuthor(s): Daniel Yi Xiao; Barbara A. Pietraszewski; Susan P. GoodwinJournal: Library Hi TechYear: 2004 Volume: 22 Issue: 4 Pages: 366-374 I believe this link should take you directly to the PDF if…
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Distance Learning Section Meetings at Midwinter
Stephen Dew posted the following to the OffCamp Listserv the other day: ALA has recently announced the tentative meeting times and locations for all divisions and sections at Midwinter, and I want to let everyone know about the times and tentative locations for the meetings of the Distance Learning Section, ACRL. They are as follows:…