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Mark Lindner

Organization Monkey » "Libraries should get specific in our promotions" - 0 views

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libraries academic usability research

shared by Mark Lindner on 16 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Fry, Amy, and Linda Rich. 2011. Usability testing for e-resource discovery: How students find and choose e-resources using library websites. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 37, no.5: 386-401.
Sara Thompson

Student Study Space: the entrepreneurial model (my visit to TechPad) - The Ubiquitous L... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...rial-model-my-visit-to-techpad

libraries buildings commons design education

shared by Sara Thompson on 18 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • I was fascinated by this concept of a 24 hour, co-working, commons environment, which obviously has some library parallels. And if you know me, then you know that I’ve been obsessed with startup culture lately, so I had to go check it out. At VT we are in the initial stages of renovation planning and so I am absorbing design ideas from everywhere possible— especially non-library environments.
  • Zoning based on needs (meet with clients, meet with team, work alone, etc) Encouragement (see others working, inspires you to want to be successful too) Assistance (on-site metering) Common Experiences (webinars, dining, games)
Sara Thompson

Content Creation, Media Labs, and Hackerspaces | David Lee King - 0 views

www.davidleeking.com/...on-media-labs-and-hackerspaces

libraries buildings

shared by Sara Thompson on 15 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 15 Dec 11
     
    I found the "coworking spaces" especially relevant for BCU's library.  I could see turning the entire 2nd floor into small (as in tiny) office spaces to be checked out for 3 hours at a time by students, adjuncts, faculty - anyone who needs to get work done away from their usual spaces. 
Sara Thompson

Logan Library - Logan, Utah - 2 views

library.loganutah.org

bcushare OPAC libraries examples

shared by Sara Thompson on 18 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 18 Jan 12
     
    Sara's favorite example of SirsiDynix OPAC, but with some features we don't need
fleschnerj

Free/Open Source Software for Libraries - 0 views

foss4lib.org

Open source free software

shared by fleschnerj on 18 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 18 Jan 12
     
    FOSS4LIB (Free/Open Source Software for Libraries), a website dedicated to providing guidance about open source software for the library community.
Sara Thompson

[PDF] Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Roche... - 0 views

www.ala.org/...Foster-Gibbons_cmpd.pdf

research libraries students casestudy data

shared by Sara Thompson on 11 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 11 Jan 12
     
    Ebook of research report from ACRL about how students use libraries. "we were interested in how students write their research papers and what services, resources, and facilities would be most useful to them"
Sara Thompson

iPad Pilot Home - iPads in the Classroom - Guides at UPenn Libraries - 4 views

guides.library.upenn.edu/ipad

ipad libraries casestudy education bcuedtech

shared by Sara Thompson on 07 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 07 Nov 11
     
    A LibGuide created for an iPad Lending Program, with a reservation calendar and links to blog posts. 
Sara Thompson

Memphis Public Library's New ILS: Other Sirsi OPAC examples - 3 views

memphislibrary.blogspot.com/...other-sirsi-opac-examples.html

libraries interface OPAC examples

shared by Sara Thompson on 18 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 18 Nov 11
     
    other examples of SirsiDynix OPACs - all at public libraries, though
Sara Thompson

M Ryan Hess | DePaul University | Web Services Coordinator - 1 views

works.bepress.com/mryanhess

libguides webdesign info-literacy libraries presentations

shared by Sara Thompson on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 25 Jul 12
     
    Presentations on LibGuides, library applications, web analytics
Sara Thompson

Unbundling Higher Education | From the Bell Tower - 0 views

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libraries education online-learning future

shared by Sara Thompson on 23 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • You can still buy albums, but what Jobs and Apple did was completely unbundle how music is sold. We now buy just those songs we prefer from individual artists, and create our own playlists. Now apply that idea to higher education.
  • but for the most part only a single institution can provide the whole bundle. This makes a great deal of sense for accreditation purposes. If your university is accredited, then every course and degree earned from it has the seal of approval. Now a new group of providers are bringing courses to the market, and their goal is to do to higher education what Apple did to music.
  • What they all have in common is unbundling. None offers degrees, and even if they did there’s no accreditation to back them up. In time that barrier will likely be eradicated. Recall that for-profit online universities once faced challenges obtaining accreditation in many states, but it is a thing of the past. Their growth was unstoppable, and in time states and accrediting agencies has to capitulate.
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  • Khan Academy is equally well known, and an Inside Higher Ed news report shares some of the founder’s views about how his open learning website could provide competency-based credentialing as opposed to traditional accreditation.
  • Then there are some new entries into the open course market, such as Udacity, Coursera, Good Semester and Udemy.  These newer competitors are starting off with just a few courses, mostly free, but they give the impression that as many different providers become available a strikingly different model of higher education – alt-HE – could emerge.
  • An unbundled system of higher education might require academic librarians to think more entrepreneurially about how they operate.
  • The growing popularity of unbundled higher education also demonstrates there is a huge global audience for these courses; citizens around the world are seeking higher education that is unavailable or too costly in their own community. The forward-thinking traditional universities are looking at how they can capitalize on that market.
  • Sara Thompson on 23 Feb 12
     
    Steven Bell looks at trends in unaccredited education (OER, for-profit) and postulates on what it might mean for academic libraries. 
Sara Thompson

Canvas: Syllabus for Introduction to Research - 0 views

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LMS canvas examples courses libraries

shared by Sara Thompson on 29 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 29 Feb 12
     
    A short class on using library services, with just one assignment and a quiz; lots of information in the syllabus. (example using Canvas from Instructure)
fleschnerj

Using Cloud Services for Library IT Infrastructure - 0 views

journal.code4lib.org/...2510

Cloud IT ILS Website

shared by fleschnerj on 22 Nov 11 - Cached
  • fleschnerj on 22 Nov 11
     
    Cloud computing comes in several different forms and this article documents how service, platform, and infrastructure forms of cloud computing have been used to serve library needs. Following an overview of these uses the article discusses the experience of one library in migrating IT infrastructure to a cloud environment and concludes with a model for assessing cloud computing.
Sara Thompson

E-book acquisition based on use and demand could save libraries thousands | Inside High... - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...could-save-libraries-thousands

coll-dev libraries ebooks

shared by Sara Thompson on 22 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 22 Nov 11
     
    Interesting little case study example of patron-driven acquisition. 
fleschnerj

Quotable library facts - 1 views

www.ala.org/...quotablefacts2012_FINAL.pdf

libraries facts quotes ala

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  • fleschnerj on 01 Nov 12
     
    From ALA
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