Category: Service
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Canadian libraries are doing just fine in the digital age
Nice article from the Globe and Mail about public libraries in Canada: Libraries turn page to thrive in digital age. Basically it talks about how libraries are changing to keep up with different demands; offering services to teens (including the obligatory DDR night), spending more of their budgets on electronic resources. Nothing we librarians don’t…
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Survey: Blogs in Academic Libraries
Shelly Drumm (and colleagues) writes: We are exploring the uses of blogs in academic libraries. If you have experience with blogs as a means of communicating with your patrons, we would welcome your input in a brief survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=773202839763 The best part is that after completing the survey you can see how the other respondents…
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Blended Learning: Research Perspectives
Not a whole lot there right now, but Sloan-C (a consortium of institutions and organizations committed to quality online education) has a site dedicated to Blended Learning called, appropriately enough, Blended Learning: Research Perspectives. “Sloan-C will be using this web site to collect and share resources for educators and administrators involved with blended and hybrid…
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CFP: Journal of Access Services
I’m on the board of editors for the Journal of Access Services, and one of my roles is of course to drum up business. There’s a special issue coming up you might want to consider: Best Practices in Access Services. Laurie the Librarian has all the details. Deadline is Feb 1, 2007. Technorati Tags: JAS
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But what if I just bought the old version?
I’m slowly putting together the answers to all the questions that were asked during my SirsiDynix Institute session on Screencasting last week. One person asked if I was sure that version 4 of Camtasia was out, as she had just bought version 3.x the previous week. I am sure, and told her that if she’d…
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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…