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Judith E. Pasek is STEM liaison librarian at the University of Wyoming, email: jpasek{at}uwyo.edu With great anticipation, I wondered what topic I had been assigned for my on-campus job interview presentation for a librarian position with liaison responsibilities.

Shortly after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013, Peter Higgs, of Higgs boson fame, said he doubted he would have gotten a job, not to mention tenure, in today's academic system. The professor emeritus at the University of Edinburgh said he simply wouldn't have been "productive" enough, with academe's premium on publication metrics.

WE HELP CREATE ORGANISATIONS AND BRANDS PEOPLE LOVE TO WORK FOR, BUY FROM, DEAL WITH AND INVEST IN.

CAUL Learning and Teaching Advisory Committee Bulletin

In spring 2012, Rider University librarians heightened their collaboration with classroom faculty to teach students in core writing classes information literacy (IL) skills during IL instruction (ILI) sessions. This quasi-experimental study assessed four pedagogical approaches for single or multi-session ILI. The conventional approach, which involves lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on time, was used in both the control and the experimental groups.

This study examines how Australian academic librarians perceive effective Web 2.0 tools used to market library services and resources and the factors influencing perceptions of the Web 2.0 tools used. An online survey was sent to 400 academic librarians in 37 Australian universities. The response rate was 57.5%.

Dragon Dictation App - Dragon Dictation records voice as text onto a word processing document. A handy tool to use when writing an essay. Sometimes I find verbal ideas and thoughts are clear, I struggle to synthesize all the information into written text. the Dragon Dictation software is another tool to assist with education.