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Embedded Librarianship in the LMS Survey Results - 1 views

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Why your website stinks - 2 views

speakerdeck.com/...site-stinks-and-its-your-fault Website library usability
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  • fleschnerj on 18 Mar 12
     
    All too true.
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Behind an Online Giant's Accreditation Bid Is a Small Brick-and-Mortar Campus - Governm... - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 15 Mar 12
     
    And now for your daily dose of scary...
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InformationFluencyTransliteracyResearchTools | Scoop.it - 2 views

www.scoop.it/...research-skills-and-tools information literacy elearning literacy digital fluency
shared by Deb Robertson on 15 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Deb Robertson on 15 Mar 12
     
    PP slides from a lecture given by Dr. Jane Secker at the University of Sheffield iSchool on March 1st, 2012.
  • Deb Robertson on 15 Mar 12
     
    This presentation offers some interesting graphics and new ways to define what I am trying to figure out we are trying to accomplish with our instructional opportunities and classroom collaborations.
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Information Literacy: A Neglected Core Competency (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

www.educause.edu/...199382 info-literacy instruction libraries education transliteracy
shared by Sara Thompson on 12 Mar 12 - Cached
  • The findings are troubling. College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter what question they have: The primary sources they use for course work are course readings and Google. They rely on professors to be "research coaches" for identifying additional sources. They use Google and Wikipedia for research about everyday life topics. They tend not to use library services that require interacting with librarians.
  • The Association of American Colleges and Universities identified information literacy as one of the essential learning outcomes that prepare students for 21st century challenges.2 The"2010 Horizon Report," a collaboration between the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and the New Media Consortium, indicated that the need for training in the related digital media literacy is a critical challenge in education for the next five years. The Council for Independent Colleges offers annual workshops for chief academic officers, librarians, and faculty on integrating information literacy at their campuses.3
  • Sara Thompson on 12 Mar 12
     
    Researchers at the Information School at the University of Washington released an important and thought-provoking report in late 2009: "Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age."1 The study confirms and expands on the results of other reports. Its particular value is the size of the population studied, the diversity of institutions represented, and the use of both a survey and follow-up interviews for data collection.
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Developing a Library Copyright Policy | EIFL - 1 views

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  • Mark Lindner on 11 Mar 12
     
    Could be useful if/when we decide to have a copyright policy
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From the Frying Pan Into the Fire (and Back Again): Adventures in Subject-Based, Credit... - 0 views

www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/...bject-based-credit-instruction Library instruction credit course-specific
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  • fleschnerj on 09 Mar 12
     
    Here's a fun one about a credit instruction class.
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Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion? - 0 views

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  • fleschnerj on 08 Mar 12
     
    I actually disagree with a few of their arguments, but thought it was worth a share.
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Information Technology and Libraries: Vol 31, No 1 (2012) - 1 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 06 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Articles Copyright: Regulation Out of Line with our Digital Reality? PDF Abigail J. McDermott 7-20 Library Use of Web-based Research Guides PDF Jimmy Ghaphery, Erin White 21-31 Investigations into Library Web-Scale Discovery Services PDF Jason Vaughan 32-82 Usability Test Results for a Discovery Tool in an Academic Library PDF Jody Condit Fagan, Meris A. Mandernach, Carl S. Nelson, Jonathan R. Paulo, Grover Saunders
  • Sara Thompson on 06 Mar 12
     
    First open-access e-version issue
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How to get kids to think critically | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine - 2 views

blogs.discovermagazine.com/...o-get-kids-to-think-critically Critical Thinking teaching
shared by fleschnerj on 04 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 04 Mar 12
     
    A wonderfully-done and highly engaging series of short videos teaching kids the basics of critical thinking.
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The Higher Education Compliance Alliance - 0 views

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  • Deb Robertson on 02 Mar 12
     
    The Higher Education Compliance Alliance was created to provide the higher education community with a centralized repository of information and resources for compliance with federal laws and regulations.
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10 Amazing Uses for Wolfram Alpha - How-To Geek - 0 views

www.howtogeek.com/...amazing-uses-for-wolfram-alpha search webtools data research statistics
shared by Sara Thompson on 02 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Enter two terms with a vs in between them and you’ll get a comparison. For example, you could compare websites to see the differences in traffic between them.
  • Enter a type of food and Wolfram Alpha will provide you with its nutrition information. You don’t have to stop at one — enter multiple types of food and Wolfram Alpha will compare them for you.
  • Ask where you are and Wolfram will use your IP address to track you down. You can also enter an IP address into the box and Wolfram will track that IP address down and tell you where it is.
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  • Wolfram Alpha can come up with a random password and estimate how long it will take to crack. You can even tweak the rules used to generate the password.
  • Have you been drinking? Wolfram Alpha can estimate whether you can legally drive home. Ask it if you’re drunk and you’ll get a form asking for more information.
  • Enter a name and you can see how common it is, complete with a graph showing you how popular the name has been over time. Enter multiple names and Wolfram will compare how common they are.
  • Type body mass index and Wolfram will present you with another form. After you provide your weight and height, Wolfram Alpha will calculate your BMI and tell you whether you’re within the normal range.
  • Want to find words that begin with a certain letter, end with a certain combination of letters — or both? Just ask Wolfram Alpha in plain English.
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Google-Trained Minds Can't Deal with Terrible Research Database UI - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...253641 Searching digital native
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  • fleschnerj on 01 Mar 12
     
    Comments are the best p Students of all ages can have a good deal of trouble doing research online. (And not just students, we'll admit, if we're honest.) The obvious answer to this problem is to train people to do better searches. But the most obvious answer may not be the best one.
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At Last: Our Publicly Accessible Portal to Search, Browse, and Read ECCO-TCP ... - 1 views

textcreate.wordpress.com/...earch-browse-and-read-ecco-tcp Enlightenment ECCO search libraries
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  • Mark Lindner on 01 Mar 12
     
    I'm delighted to report that this is no longer the case: the University of Michigan-based implementation of the ECCO-TCP texts can now be fully explored by the general public: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/.
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Findings: How We Will Read: Laura Miller and Maud Newton - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 01 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Welcome to the second installment of “How We Will Read,” a series exploring the future of reading from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals. This week, we talked to Laura Miller and Maud Newton, founders of The Chimerist, a new blog dedicated to exploring the imaginative potential of the iPad.
  • There’s some sort of disgrace to being a reader, or a viewer, or just absorbing some work of culture — it’s this lesser activity, by that rationale. I really disagree with that. I feel like reading and looking at art and all of these things are creative acts in their own way. The experience of a piece of culture being appreciated takes two people.
  • But it is a special kind of canvas. It is a device that enables you to focus on one thing at a time, and I know some people have a real issue with that, that you can’t open another window inside what you’re doing, but I actually find that really refreshing. Even as someone who loves the internet. When I turn to my iPad, I’m looking for a different kind of distraction-free experience, for whatever I’m working on at the time.
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  • LM: Everything that Maud said. I wrote a piece about enhanced fiction e-books for Salon a couple of weeks ago, and I have one on nonfiction coming up any day now. I have been thinking about the whole narrative issue. I think there is a huge difference between fiction and nonfiction
  • MN: The pleasure of surrender, in fiction, is the exact opposite of interactivity. It’s this sinking in to the pleasure of the story
  • LM: I wrote a piece years before the iPad ever existed, actually, on hypertext fiction for the New York Times Book Review.
  • There’s an app called Once Magazine that’s mostly photograph-based. It is an iPad-specific magazine that reports on various happenings around the world. It’s a very interesting product, and I’ve been really impressed with all the issues so far.
  • MN: I’ve been playing around this app called Meanwhile, which is based on a graphic novel by Jason Shiga produced in 2009 as a really complicated choose-your-own-adventure book, evidently. I became aware of it through my friend Chris Baker, who’s an editor at WIRED. I’ve been playing around with that and enjoying it. The cartoonist is also a mathematician, so there are a lot of complex and frustrating story loops that you can get caught in.
  • I do think this speaks to what Laura was saying about the tension between trying to solve something and trying to experience it.
  • And, the thing about Chopsticks is that some of it is inherent to the iPad’s touchscreen technology, but it could have been a website or something. A lot of things you see on the iPad are different kinds of web art that’s been ported into this new format. And you absorb it in a different way because you’re holding it in your hand, and you’re touching it.
  • And then I became really interested in the size of some of these devices. Somebody in the London Review of Books made the observation that the old cuneiform tablets that the Babylonians and other ancient cultures used were actually about the same size as the iPhone. [Peter Campbell, “At the British Museum.”] So I’m interested in this different way of experiencing story and technology.
  • We’re both a little odd in that we don’t necessarily fetishize the object. I read so voraciously and indiscriminately as a child that my mother was constantly buying books at yard sales and the goodwill, and whatever. And a lot of times they were falling apart — literally. I would just hope the spine wouldn’t completely come off by the end of it. So I have a somewhat utilitarian approach to the object itself, even though I appreciate a beautiful book — and I can of course be swayed to pick up a book because of the way it looks. But I don’t really care what it looks like, once I’m reading it, if I like it.
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Canvas: Syllabus for Introduction to Research - 0 views

canvas.instructure.com/...syllabus 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)
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Balancing Act: How College Students Manage Technology While in the Library during Crun... - 0 views

projectinfolit.org/...11_TechStudy_FullReport1.2.pdf Project Information Literacy PIL information literacy College Students
shared by Deb Robertson on 24 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Deb Robertson on 24 Feb 12
     
    Our major findings are as follows: 1. During one of the busiest times of the academic year, the students we interviewed were mainly using different IT devices to stay in touch with their friends while they were in the campus library. In the hour before we interviewed them, 81% of the students in our sample had checked for new messages (e.g., email, Facebook, IMs, texts). 2. At the same time, many of the same respondents who said they had checked for messages had also prepared assignments for submission (60%), studied and reviewed materials for class (52%), and satisfied personal curiosity with a computer search (e.g., sports score, news, gossip) (45%). 3. Despite the pressing need to complete assignments at crunch time, few respondents reported having used the full range of library resources and/or services during the previous hour. Many more respondents said they had used library equipment (39%) such as computers and printers than anything else, including scholarly research databases (11%), library books (9%), face-to-face reference (5%), and/or online reference (2%). 4. Overall, we found most respondents (85%) could be classified as "light" technology users. These were students who used "only" one or two IT devices primarily in support of coursework and, to a lesser extent, communication. The most frequent combination (40%) of devices being used was a cell phone (including smart phones) with a personally owned laptop computer while they were in the library. In stark contrast, only 8% of the sample could be classified as "heavy" technology users. 5. For over half the sample, a personally owned laptop (58%) was the primary-most essential-device in use at the time of the interview. A smaller percentage of respondents (35%) were using a library desktop computer. 6. More than any other combination of applications, respondents had both a Web browser and a word processing program open at the same time (47%) while they were in the library. 7. Despi
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