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The future of academic libraries (my sabbatical update#1)
I had been told that keeping a journal during sabbatical leave can be helpful, and some of my colleagues have great examples. However, I found that my notes are much more task oriented: 1/7/2015 – COINS submitted, begin list of … Continue reading
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January 2011 C&RL – Comments and thoughts a long time coming
Yeah, so this entry has been “A Long Time Coming”, but I am using Penn State’s spring break 2012 to catch up on research and that means reading (though soon I may rant about that “practice of information literacy”)Guest… Continue reading
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Welcome to the jungle
Okay, now I am at WordPress at TLT Labs. My old blog was here and it didn’t have enough bells and whistles. I hope this one is better!
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My Reviews in WorldCAT
The reviews from Educational Media Reviews Online has been integrated into WorldCAT, so now some of the science DVDs I have reviewed are on WorldCat.org…. Continue reading
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Learning Design Summer Camp – Community Engagement: How Disruptive Technologies Enabled New Social Learning
Education department class with Cole and Scott – course based instruction techniques are very difficult to adapt to library instruction methods. Graduate students can drive last third of the course (probably wouldn’t work for undergrads) Big idea -> community of… Continue reading
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The similarity was jarring at first
My idea was a tag cloud based on the content of the author’s blog, while the other one seems to be a tag cloud of technology tools (not well weighted, Google isn’t big enough)Given the ubiquity of tag clouds,… Continue reading
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Posters from ALA Annual
I promised to share the posters I presented at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA. In order to capture the full detail of a 40″ by 60″ poster, I created PDF files for zooming.ACRL Science and Technology Section… Continue reading
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New Semester Starts
This is the start of my first full regular semester here at Penn State. There are a whole lot of new students around. So far I have met around 50 of them, the new graduate students in the Math and… Continue reading
Reference Retreat
We recently had a full day’s worth of reference services discussion and learning here at the Penn State Libraries including the College Campus Libraries. We had as a guest the esteemed Marie Radford, who is still doing Chat Reference research… Continue reading
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Metablogs made easy
Somebody, who will remain nameless yet linked, insisted that I post more frequently. Mostly since I am brimming ideas and opinions that only seem to come out in meetings with lots of coffee. If you want to create a Metablog,… Continue reading