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Judy O'Connell

Online Referencing Generator: Harvard Author-Date system - 1 views

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referencing techtools bibliography

shared by Judy O'Connell on 08 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Jane Smith on 08 Sep 10
     
    Enter data and this programme generates a reference for your bibliography - abridged or full Harvard style.
  • Judy O'Connell on 24 Mar 11
     
    Still love this tool! Perfect for Australian schools that need Harvard style.
beth gourley

Gutenberg 2.0 | Harvard Magazine May-Jun 2010 - 10 views

harvardmagazine.com/...gutenberg-2-0

librarianship e-learning databases

shared by beth gourley on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Her staff offers a complete suite of information services to students and faculty members, spread across four teams. One provides content or access to it in all its manifestations; another manages and curates information relevant to the school’s activities; the third creates Web products that support teaching, research, and publication; and the fourth group is dedicated to student and faculty research and course support. Kennedy sees libraries as belonging to a partnership of shared services that support professors and students. “Faculty don’t come just to libraries [for knowledge services],” she points out. “They consult with experts in academic computing, and they participate in teaching teams to improve pedagogy. We’re all part of the same partnership and we have to figure out how to work better together.”
  • It’s not that we don’t need libraries or librarians,” he continues, “it’s that what we need them for is slightly different. We need them to be guides in this increasingly complex world of information and we need them to convey skills that most kids actually aren’t getting at early ages in their education. I think librarians need to get in front of this mob and call it a parade, to actually help shape it.”
  • Her staff offers a complete suite of information services to students and faculty members, spread across four teams. One provides content or access to it in all its manifestations; another manages and curates information relevant to the school’s activities; the third creates Web products that support teaching, research, and publication; and the fourth group is dedicated to student and faculty research and course support. Kennedy sees libraries as belonging to a partnership of shared services that support professors and students. “Faculty don’t come just to libraries [for knowledge services],” she points out. “They consult with experts in academic computing, and they participate in teaching teams to improve pedagogy. We’re all part of the same partnership and we have to figure out how to work better together.”
    • beth gourley
      beth gourley on 24 May 10
       
      Good summary of differentiating library services and the need to accommodate staffing. Ultimatley makes for the teaching partnership.
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  • “The digital world of content is going to be overwhelming for librarians for a long time, just because there is so much,” she acknowledges. Therefore, librarians need to teach students not only how to search, but “how to think critically about what they have found…what they are missing… and how to judge their sources.” 
  • But making comparisons between digital and analog libraries on issues of cost or use or preservation is not straightforward. If students want to read a book cover to cover, the printed copy may be deemed superior with respect to “bed, bath and beach,” John Palfrey points out. If they just want to read a few pages for class, or mine the book for scattered references to a single subject, the digital version’s searchability could be more appealing; alternatively, students can request scans of the pages or chapter they want to read as part of a program called “scan and deliver” (in use at the HD and other Harvard libraries) and receive a link to images of the pages via e-mail within four days. 
  • (POD) would allow libraries to change their collection strategies: they could buy and print a physical copy of a book only if a user requested it. When the user was done with the book, it would be shelved. It’s a vision of “doing libraries ‘just in time’ rather than ‘just in case,’” says Palfrey. (At the Harvard Book Store on Massachusetts Avenue, a POD machine dubbed Paige M. Gutenborg is already in use. Find something you like in Google’s database of public-domain books—perhaps one provided by Harvard—and for $8 you can own a copy, printed and bound before your wondering eyes in minutes. Clear Plexiglas allows patrons to watch the process—hot glue, guillotine-like trimming blades, and all—until the book is ejected, like a gumball, from a chute at the bottom.)
  • We’re rethinking the physical spaces to accommodate more of the type of learning that is expected now, the types of assignments that faculty are making, that have two or three students huddled around a computer working together, talking.” 
  • Libraries are also being used as social spaces,
  • In terms of research, students are asking each other for information more now than in the past, when they might have asked a librarian.
  • On the contrary, the whole history of books and communication shows that one medium does not displace another.
  • it’s not just a service organization. I would even go so far as to call it the nervous system of our corporate body.”
  • beth gourley on 24 May 10
     
    "This defines a new role for librarians as database experts and teachers, while the library becomes a place for learning about sophisticated search for specialized information." "How do we make information as useful as possible to our community now and over a long period of time?"
Katie Day

Awesome Box - alternative library return box using Arduino to log/tweet - 43 views

librarylab.law.harvard.edu/...awesome-slides

arduino libraries projects technology crowdsourcing

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  • Katie Day on 16 Feb 13
     
    Harvard Library Lab project where people put "awesome" items upon return into one box - which gets logged -- versus regular "return this book" box for ho-hum items
Cathy Oxley

Changes at Gutman Library | Harvard Gazette - 17 views

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library harvard learning spaces learning_commons

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  • Cathy Oxley on 06 Jun 12
     
    "Many of the best libraries are becoming town squares."
Robin Cicchetti

Born Digital, in Video: Identities | Berkman Center - 20 views

cyber.law.harvard.edu/...identities

digital natives video Curriculum social media

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Robin Cicchetti on 09 Feb 11
     
    3 minute video on digital natives and the permanence of their digital footprint. From the Berkman Center, Harvard University.
ADAM CARRON

Internet Website - author given - 0 views

www.helenacollege.wa.edu.au/...iw-1.html

referencing information research harvard bibliography

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  • ADAM CARRON on 21 Mar 13
     
    Fabulous new site at Helena College: Online Bibliography Generator!
Anne Weaver

Corporate Lifecycles; Dual Operating Systems – My 5 Takeaways from Accelerate (XL... - 4 views

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operating systems structure learning

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  • Anne Weaver on 04 Jul 16
     
    I presented my synopsis of Accelerate yesterday at the First Friday Book Synopsis. (Accelerate (XLR8): Building Strategic Ability for a Faster-Moving World by John Kotter(. Harvard Business Review …
Deborah Welsh

Turn Your Next Interruption into an Opportunity - Douglas R. Conant - Harvard Business ... - 0 views

blogs.hbr.org/...terruption-into-an-opportunity

harvard opportunity

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  • Deborah Welsh on 10 Apr 14
     
    organizations are living systems in which people are connecting all the time:
Lisa Castellano

Public Domain & Creative Commons Content - Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Ima... - 27 views

guides.library.harvard.edu/finding_images

creative commons public domain copyright image publicdomain

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  • Lisa Castellano on 23 May 14
     
    This guide will help you find and correctly attribute public domain and Creative Commons images for your project or presentation.
Robin Cicchetti

The Business Case for Reading Novels - Anne Kreamer - Harvard Business Review - 14 views

blogs.hbr.org/...business_case_for_reading.html

data reading promotion reading

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  • in fMRI studies of people reading fiction, neuroscientists detect activity in the pre-frontal cortex — a part of the brain involved with setting goals — when the participants read about characters setting a new goal. It turns out that when Henry James, more than a century ago, defended the value of fiction by saying that "a novel is a direct impression of life," he was more right than he knew.
  • they discovered "a significant relation between the amount of fiction people read and their empathic and theory-of-mind abilities" allowing them to conclude that it was reading fiction that improved the subjects' social skills, not that those with already high interpersonal skills tended to read more.
  • It's when we read fiction that we have the time and opportunity to think deeply about the feelings of others, really imagining the shape and flavor of alternate worlds of experience.
  • Robin Cicchetti on 18 Jan 12
     
    Data on the benefits of reading fiction.
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