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By Jennifer Howard in the Technology section, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29 2011. Interview with Nancy Sims, lawyer, librarian and copyright-program librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. A basic overview of copyright law, particularly in academic setting, includes a list of additional copyright resources at the end of the article.

Made me pine for Iris and Stephanie!

By Sarah Gooding, posted to WPMU.ORG (WordPress-Multisite-BuddyPress) on Feb 1st 2010. Gooding interviews Kyle Jones, a Knowledge and Learning Services Librarian at Darien Library (known to be "ahead of the curve" on technology). Jones has created several LMS course sites, with links provided.

By Kyle Jones on his blog, The Corkboard, May 28 2010. Jones, a librarian at Darien Library, creates LMS courses using WordPress/BuddyPress. Here, he outlines his "wishlist" of a "real" WP as LMS site.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. This resource hosts communities for members to contribute and share learning and teaching materials. The communities are categorized by higher education disciplines. In addition to contributing materials, members can comment about outside learning materials that are used, share information about themselves and knowledge about their discipline, put together personal collections to use in the classroom and become a Peer Reviewer of learning materials in member's discipline. In addition to discipline communities, there is the Community of MERLOT Partner Academic Support Services (COMPASS). This community is made up of ePortfolio, Faculty Development, Library and Information Services, Online Courses and Pedagogy. The ePortflio Portal centers educational resources around ePortfolio use in higher education, among students and faculty. Partner Communities like GLOBE extend the MERLOT network. The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance was established between ARIADNE Foundation in Europe, Education Services Austrailia, LORNET in Canada, National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan and MERLOT with the goal to "work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content." The majority of MERLOT members are faculty/instructors and the balance are students, campus administrators, librarians and other members of higher education who are concerned with online learning materials, technology, teaching and learning, and innovation.

A blog that features information about education-related MOOCs, with schedules, information about participants, and study groups (including one for librarians).

Announcement of a grant from the Mellon Foundation for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington to underwrite the Digital Humanities Commons.. "The Commons will enable faculty and graduate students to collaborate together with librarians, engineers and designers to animate their scholarship with new visualization tools and dynamic databases..."

A slideshow by Scott Brown and Joe Murphy, originally presented at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference, 2011. If you use Android, i-Phone, or i-Pad, here are some apps recommended for librarians and "info pros."

By M. Ginsburg and S. Weisband, Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2004. Written in 2004, this article is somewhat dated (e.g. before the notion of the "social network" really took hold). That said, the article looks at a subscription-based virtual community, the Internet Chess Club, and finds that the real key to success is a carefully structured 3-tier approach to volunteering. Some volunteers help/coach new users; others are available to handle administrative tasks and volunteer managers run on-demand tournaments. Volunteers gain status and recognition, as well as the benefit of a private sub-community in which they can communicate with each other. NOTE: As of Jan 2012, the club is still in existence.

Librarian notes: While much here does not apply to the current manifestation of our e-communities, the structure and function of the various volunteer roles is very interesting, as is the "communication segmentation strategies" to filter out information overload. An impressive database of the community's work (in this case chess matches) is discussed as well.

The librarians can help with organizing and finding popular content.

By Michelle M. Kazner in The Electronic Library vol 20 (5) 2002, p 395-400. This article looks at the library support that is required by the students of LEEP, the distance learning option at University of Illinois-Champaign.

Many of the ideas expressed here might be helpful as we navigate the role of digital librarian supporting the various existing KPI communities as well as any courses/new communities that might develop in the future. Part of SM's Instructional Design course 7/11.