December 3, 2010 – 1:55 pm
(See this post for an introduction to this blog series.) The second most-common idea I found in the minute paper responses can be summed up in the following quotation: We are going through accreditation, and the committee wants more than anecdotal – how do you assess to get the “numbers”? I also got asked virtually […]
December 1, 2010 – 9:00 am
(See this post for an introduction to this blog series.) The single most common response I got on my conference presentation minute papers can be accurately represented by this quote: How on earth to institute this kind of reflective practice among other librarians!! First off, this is a problem of leadership and organizational culture. Assessment, […]
November 30, 2010 – 10:00 am
So, about a month ago, I gave two conference presentations at two different conferences in the space of two weeks. It was a little nuts, and I probably won’t be trying that crazy trick again any time soon, but I did get to go to two completely different, and extraordinarily valuable, conferences and give presentations […]
October 1, 2010 – 8:54 am
It’s been pretty quiet in Blogville these days: not much happening over the summer, and then BAM the semester starts and suddenly I’m teaching eight different library sessions (two of them built completely from scratch) in nine work days. But the fall-semester rush is dying down, and even though apparently blogs are dead (who knew?) […]
I recently saw a very interesting case study of information literacy in a blog I follow, but before I tell that story, I need to provide a little background first. About a month ago I attended two information literacy events at Purdue University: the first was a day-long workshop by Ross Todd, from the library […]
I am old enough to have used the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, in print. There. I said it. As a matter of fact, I used print indices of various sorts right through my undergraduate degree and my first graduate program. (Ah, those print volumes of RILM, eventually supplanted by the CD-ROM version that ran […]
Something like half of the one-shot instruction sessions I do follow the same pattern: the faculty member wants me to teach the students “how to find (scholarly) journal articles.” During the first couple of the semesters I was in this position, I gradually worked out a lesson plan that works pretty well for this: I […]
This is not the blog post you think it’s going to be. Walt Crawford has a great post up on his blog about the choices he makes about technology for his own use. It’s a great post not just because his specific choices mirror mine in many ways, or because his decision tree about whether […]
I’m gearing up for a conversation/presentation with faculty on our campus about SafeAssign, the “plagiarism” “detection” tool (more on those quotes in a moment) that’s integrated into Blackboard, so I’ve been doing some testing to see how it compares with Google for finding and sourcing suspicious passages. But first, some definitions: I put both “plagiarism” […]
March 15, 2010 – 11:52 am
It’s that time of year again: Library Journal has just released its list of “Movers and Shakers” for 2010. This year, the Library Society of the World (better link here) was well represented, with Movers & Shakers Maurice Coleman, Matt Hamilton, Jason Puckett, and Andy Woodworth. But most notably for the LSW, our very own […]
