Category Archives: Profession

Through the past, brightly. Part 1

12 years after being a student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), I returned to visit as an academic librarian. While at CMU I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), which is based in the venerable Hamerschlag Hall. On the early… Continue reading

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Are we all mobile?

Recently I explored the policies of PSU for the details on employer provided mobile phones, including smartphones with data. Two of the key criteria jumped out at me as a librarian:Employee supports…programs, services or systems that necessitate frequent and immediate… Continue reading

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Easy Research

I have been tortured by the need to find ways radically change some of the ways librarians as researchers handle research, authorship, peer-review, and publication. As information professional we should be innovating in these areas and yet at least tenure-track… Continue reading

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Reframing Academic Leadership (first 100 pages)

These are some thoughts about a book I am reading for the Penn State Library Leaders group. The book Reframing Academic Leadership by Bolman and Gallos is relatively short and focuses on the dissection of higher education leadership using a… Continue reading

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TED Talks – Liz Coleman on liberal arts education

I am most intrigued by the problems a community of experts creates. I see librarians as educated generalists, which she mentions as key to higher education…. Continue reading

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Teaching and Learning with Technology

It seems fitting that I post a year later inspired by the same event as last year: LDSC10 (Learning Design Summer Camp) here at Penn State. I wanted to capture some of the big ideas that intrigued me at the… Continue reading

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Emerging Leaders more representative over time

Looking at a recent photo of the 2009 Emerging Leaders I noticed, as I did in previous years, the few men in the background of the picture. Granted the profession is predominately female, though I didn’t know it was as… Continue reading

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ACRL versus SLA

“Relative National Membership and Self-Reports of Professional Activity Among Academic Science, Engineering and Medical Librarians Some Hypotheses on Why SLA Is Mentioned So Often” by Tony Stankus – read it if you subscribe to Science & Technology LibrariesThree reasons are… Continue reading

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Slideshare success?

I was uploading my presentation slides for an upcoming presentation and I noticed that Slideshare lists how many times my other presentations have been viewed. The odd thing is that the most viewed is from a talk I did for… Continue reading

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Comments on EBSCOhost 2.0

EBSCO has a working preview of their 2.0 interface (in “Beta”) available under “New Features” when you use a EBSCO database, like Library Lit or LISTA. I tried it out, including creating a new MyEBSCOhost account since there are social… Continue reading

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