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Roy Tennant's Wake-Up Call to Academic Librarians - 0 views

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  • Mark Lindner on 16 Jun 12
     
    Perhaps something of interest ...
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Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views

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  • Deb Robertson on 14 Jun 12
     
    Find out who is changing the game and what we can learn from their different approaches in Game Changers. Download the entire book or individual chapters and case studies below.
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Learning Space Toolkit - 0 views

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  • Sara Thompson on 02 Jun 12
     
    "North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries and its Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) are partnering with strategic consultants brightspot strategy and DEGW to design, share, and promote an updated model for institutions to plan and support technology-rich informal learning spaces. This Learning Space Toolkit will include a roadmap to guide the process along with tools and techniques for assessing needs, understanding technology, describing spaces, planning and delivering support services, and assembling space, technology, and services to meet needs, even as they change."
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Active Learning Spaces - Steelcase (PDF) - 0 views

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  • Sara Thompson on 02 Jun 12
     
    Great examples of classroom furniture, set-ups. 
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Make it easy: art in your library - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 05 Jul 12
     
    Work smarter not harder. Delegate, delegate, delegate. If you want something done, get a busy person to do it. Wise words for the time-strapped librarian. Know what's even smarter? Not spending a dime to do so. The cash-strapped librarian is challenged to "do more with less"* and still be the modern miracle worker that he/she is.
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AAC&U VALUE Rubrics - 0 views

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  • Sara Thompson on 12 Jul 12
     
    presentation from Lauren Pressley on AAC&U's value rubrics, including information literacy
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Pathways To Best Practice guides | m-libraries - 0 views

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  • Mark Lindner on 20 Sep 12
     
    "We've recently launched a new feature on the blog - the Pathways to Best Practice guides. This series of documents brings together the resources we've been collecting during the project as well as examples of initiatives and the lessons learned which should help you if you are thinking of implementing something similar."
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New iOS App Uses Audio Recognition to Provide 3rd-Party Info About Claims Made in TV Ad... - 0 views

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  • Mark Lindner on 20 Sep 12
     
    "Simply launch the SuperPAC app and then simply hold your iPhone/iPad/iPod up to your television while a presidential television advertisement is airing. The user then receives, "objective, third-party information." Think Shazam or SoundHound but instead of info about songs/recording artists your presented with info about the presidential campaign ad your viewing."
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Evernote For Education: Citelighter Teams Up With Cengage To Take The Pain Out Of Onlin... - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 17 Sep 12
     
    When it comes to researching for papers, homework assignments, etc., students primarily turn to the Web for information despite its inherent academic dangers. Naturally, with the diversity of content out there, keeping track of pertinent links and bibliographical data is difficult when jumping from source to source. Citelighter launched in the fall of 2011 to address this problem by creating an academic research platform that helps students save, organize and automatically cite both online and offline content. An Evernote for Education.
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Walking away from the American Chemical Society - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 13 Sep 12
     
    tl;dr: SUNY Potsdam will not be subscribing to an American Chemical Society online journal package for 2013. We will instead be using a combination of the Royal Society of Chemistry content, ACS single title subscriptions, the ACS backfile, and ScienceDirect from Elsevier** to meet our chemical information needs. We're doing this because the ACS pricing model is unsustainable for our institution and we were unable to find common ground with the sales team from the ACS. Instead, we explored other options and exercised them. You could do the same if you find yourself in a position similar to ours as ACS standardizes their pricing, and maybe together we can make enough choices to make our voices heard in meaningful ways.
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On ethical reference service (or, "Fishmongers? In my library?") - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 11 Sep 12
     
    There's an old saying: give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day; teach him how to fish and he'll die from mercury poisoning because you can't survive on nothing but fish. Or something like that. I never was any good at proverbs.
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Publishers Will Appeal E-Reserves Decision That Favored Georgia State U. - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 11 Sep 12
     
    The publisher plaintiffs who accused Georgia State University of copyright infringement in a lawsuit over course e-reserves aren't happy with the outcome of that case. On Monday they said they would appeal a federal judge's decision, handed down in May, that was largely a win for the defendants.
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Helicopter Librarian: Expect the Unexpected - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 07 Sep 12
     
    The main difference between great librarians and Helicopter Librarians is that the former are focused on providing excellent service whereas the Helicopter Librarians are committed to building radically great relationships that students are comfortable with, similar to their relationships with their Helicopter Parents.
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Apps change everything at library - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 07 Sep 12
     
    A few months ago the Winnetka-Northfield Library launched their mobile application for the iPod, iPad and iPhone, along with an Android device app available at winnetka.boopsie.com.
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How Google Impacts The Way Students Think | TeachThought - 0 views

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  • Google creates the illusion of accessibility
  • Google naturally suggests “answers” as stopping points
  • Being linear, Google obscures the interdependence of information
  • Deb Robertson on 29 Aug 12
     
    When your formative years are spent working your fingers through apps and iPads, smartphones and YouTube, the digital world and its habits can bend and shape not just how you access information, but how you conceptualize it entirely.
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NCSU Libraries Mobile Scavenger Hunt: RIS: NCSU Libraries - 0 views

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  • The NCSU Libraries Mobile Scavenger Hunt is designed to allow maximum mobility of student teams as they explore the library, while the librarians hosting the hunt keep score in real time from a central location. Each team is supplied with a clue sheet with 15 questions about the library and its services, a map of the library, and an iPod Touch for entering clue answers. Students are given a brief introduction to the activity and its rules, as well as basic instruction in use of the iPod and relevant apps, before being sent off to answer their clues. Teams are allowed 25 minutes to explore the libraries and answer the questions before returning to the starting location to review correct answers, learn which team won, and receive prizes.
  • The teams' iPod Touches are equipped with the Evernote multimedia note-taking application, which the teams use to submit text- and photo-based answers to the clues. Each team's Evernote account is shared with a master account monitored by the librarians running the show; through the Evernote web or iPad app, librarians can see each team's notes in real-time as they are created. Scorekeeping is performed using a Google Spreadsheet, which is configured with the expected answers for each question. As teams submit their notes, the librarians are able to mark which questions were answered correctly by modifying the corresponding spreadsheet cells. Scores are tabulated automatically based on which questions are marked correct.
  • NCSU Libraries Mobile Scavenger Hunt: information for instructors4 Complete implementation documentation (pdf)5 Sample introduction slide show (pdf)6 Sample scavenger hunt questions (pdf)7 Scoring sheet template (Google spreadsheet)
  • Sara Thompson on 23 Aug 12
     
    "The NCSU Libraries Mobile Scavenger Hunt is an interactive, technology-rich way to introduce students to the library. Developed in response to student and instructor feedback collected in 2010-2011, it leverages the motivating power of situated learning and the fun of team game dynamics to orient students to the Libraries' spaces, promote the use of emerging technologies, and foster confidence in using the Libraries' collections. The activity is run using iPod Touches and several free apps and online tools. Students answer Scavenger Hunt questions using Evernote, a free app for multimedia note-taking, which is installed on the iPod Touches distributed to the Scavenger Hunt teams. Librarians are able to monitor students' answers in real time as they are entered into Evernote, keeping score on a Google Docs spreadsheet."
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ENGL 395: Latin@Bodies on the (Poetry) Line [session 2] | Pegasus Librarian - 0 views

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  • This has usually never occurred undergrads. I encourage students to look at bibliographies as they would look at conversational clumps at a party — seeing who is talking to whom, then seeing what they’re saying and how they interact with each other, then joining a conversation and adding to it while referring back to the people whose points you’re expanding on or countering.
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Microsoft announces new version of Office - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 16 Jul 12
     
    Available today, the new suite is considered by CEO Steve Ballmer "the most ambitious version of Office we've ever done." Microsoft has pulled back the curtains on the latest version of its Office suite. At a press conference today, CEO Steve Ballmer announced the new version, noting that a preview edition of the cloud-based Office 365 edition will be available for people to try out today.
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EXTRA ETHER: eBooks Gone in 5 Years? | Jane Friedman - 0 views

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  • He co-edited with Brian O’Leary the seminal Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto, which has enough meaningful, thought-provoking essays in it to keep you muttering to yourself from the tiki bar back to the pool for the rest of the summer. Have a look if you haven’t seen its free online version.
  • McGuire points out that both Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPhone arrived in 2007.
  • Publishers are deathly afraid of the Internet. And they have very good reason to be, because the Internet is famous for gobbling up business models and spitting out total chaos.
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  • It’s a problem because in order to get this similarity with the past, we’ve ended up constraining ebooks and making them look a lot more like print books and a lot less like the Internet.
  • He offers a couple of strong examples of deeply interactive projects. One is the YouVersion interactive Bible site. Another is one he describes as an extensively structured online rendering of the 1912 journal of Robert Scott’s expedition to the South Pole, “a beautiful web experience,” each element of the journey tied to Google Maps.
  • For some time now, Virginia Quarterly Review’s Jane Friedman has been trying to wean readers away from the standard idea of “The Book” as the inevitable goal. Here she is, in a piece from October, asking “What is your killer medium?”: The book is often assumed to be the most authoritative and important medium, but that’s only because we’ve all been led to believe that (through a culture that has created The Myth about the author as authority). It’s a Myth, neither good nor bad. Just a belief system that, increasingly, we’re all moving away from.
  • Sara Thompson on 13 Jul 12
     
    Hugh McGuire: "The distinction between "the Internet" and "books" is arbitrary, and will disappear in 5 years. Start adjusting now."
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Can You Put that in the Form of a Question? | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • One of their assignments is to interview a researcher in their field. This year, since the students had a nice mix of majors from across the curriculum, we used reports from the interviews as an opportunity to analyze on how research traditions vary from one discipline to another and how these experts’ processes differ from those of non-experts.
  • One thing that many students remarked on as they reported on their interviews: the activities that define research are enormously varied from one discipline to another. The process a researcher goes through to examine the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote one of his history plays is a world apart from what a researcher does to develop a new vaccine or what an ethnographer does when studying an isolated culture in Brazil.
  • The scientists all had co-authors; the social scientists were a mix of solo and collaborative projects, and the humanists all performed solo acts. And yet, it became clear that all of them were working within an ongoing conversation. None of them was doing work that didn’t draw on and respond to the work of others.
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  • Every interview subject conducted some sort of a literature review as part of any research project
  • Every researcher described some strategies for keeping up with new developments in their area of expertise, all of which involved some scanning of new publications and some personal contact with individuals exploring the same territory.
  • For most, presenting research at conferences was a common part of bringing their research to completion. For all, writing up results for publication was an important final step, and they seemed acutely aware of the pecking order for publication venues in their field.
  • (In contrast, undergraduates mostly encounter articles within databases, called up by key words, not as artifacts within a particular journal which carries clout.)
  • One thing the students all gained through these interviews was an appreciation that research is not a matter of finding answers in other people’s publications. Every scholar interviewed described how they had asked a question that nobody had asked before, a question they couldn’t answer themselves until they had completed the research. It struck me that so much of what undergraduates experience as “research” is very nearly the opposite, a process of uncovering answers others have already arrived at.
  • I’m also thinking about what these interviews said collectively about how real research is conducted. It makes me a little crazy when students abandon a truly interesting question because they can’t find sources to quote that provide the answer, or when they change their topic based on what they can find easily. Or (shudder) when they say they've written their paper, but need help finding five sources to cite. Clearly, they are not learning how to do research; they aren't even learning what research is.  What I would really, really like is to figure out how to give every student the experience of not worrying so much about getting the right answers, but learning how to ask a really good question. The kind they won't find answered in the library.
  • Sara Thompson on 02 Jun 12
     
    "I teach a course in the spring called Information Fluency... It's an upper division undergraduate course pitched to students who are planning to go to graduate school, giving them a chance to learn more about the way the literature of their field works as well as generally how to use library and internet tools for research."
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