LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Teaching interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:07:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://kairosnews.org/survey-of-open-source-adoption-and-usage Greetings. We are conducting a preliminary online survey aimed at assessing the role of open source software in the scholarly and pedagogical practices of the Rhetoric & Composition and English Studies community. As a scholar and teacher of Rhetoric & Composition and/or of English Studies, you are being invited to participate in this survey. Please take a few moments to respond to this very brief ten-question survey on the subject at the link provided below.read more (Source: Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:11:52 +0100 674632 http://lisnews.org/leaked_list_british_national_party_shows_some_members_librarians This article states, "Members include teachers, librarians, solicitors, nurses and linguists," plus people from many other categories of occupations. More here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1087101/Radio-DJ-fired-BNP-teachers-police-lawyers-e... The British National Party in UK, according to Wiki's s description, "is a far-right and whites only political party in the United Kingdom...The BNP asserts that there are biological racial differences that determine the behaviour and character of individuals of different races, although it does not regard whites as superior to other ethnic groups. The party claims that preference for one's own ethnicity is a part of human nature. Its publicity has often conflated Islam with Marxism, due to both systems aiming to put all the world's people under a common system, and has suggested that mainstream politicians with Marxist pasts are partially responsible for this. Historically, under John Tyndall's leadership, the BNP was overtly anti-Semitic; however, under the current leadership of Nick Griffin, the BNP has focused on criticism of Islam." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:52:45 +0100 674455 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/rowin/2008/11/19/maximising-the-effectiveness-of-virtual-worlds-in-teaching-and-learning/ That’s the title of a joint JISC CETIS and Eduserv event we’re running on Friday 16 January here at the University of Strathclyde, and it’s an event I’m looking forward to enormously.  If you fancy coming along I’d advise you to register as soon as possible, as places are already filling up rapidly and if you’re [...] (Source: JISC CETIS News) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:54:19 +0100 674592 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/11/19/new-rule-will-improve-environmental-performance-of-academic-labs/ EPA has finalized the Academic Laboratory rule to help improve the environmental performance of teaching and research laboratories owned by eligible academic entities.  This rule provides increased regulatory flexibility, while enhancing safe management of hazardous waste.  Eligible academic entities include colleges and universities, and teaching hospitals and nonprofit research institutes that are either owned by or formally affiliated with a college or university. Eligible academic entities will be able to decide where (at the laboratory, at an on-site central accumulation area, or at an on-site treatment, storage or disposal facility) the hazardous waste determination is made.  They also must ensure that certain conditions are met to protect human health and the environment. This flexibility not only allows eligible academic entities to determine the most effective and environmentally protective method of compliance, but it also ensures that a RCRA-trained professional will be making the hazardous waste determination. The rule requires the development of a laboratory management plan, which is expected to result in safer laboratory practices and increased awareness of hazardous waste management.  In addition, the rule provides incentives for eligible academic entities to dispose of old and expired chemicals that may pose unnecessary risk. For more information on the Academic Laboratory Rule, please visit: http://www.epa.gov/osw/hazard/generation/labwaste/ (Source: Environmental News Bits) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:51:57 +0100 674381 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=4811 State: Florida The University of Miami Libraries seeks a creative, innovative individual to provide leadership in the content, technology and effective user interfaces of the Libraries web presence and promotes user-centered resources, digital services, and technologies designed to enhance the user experience. UNIVERSITY: The University of Miami is one of the nation’s leading research universities in a community of extraordinary diversity and international vitality. The University is privately supported, non-sectarian institution, located in Coral Gables, Florida, on a 260-acre subtropical campus. The University comprises 11 degree granting schools and colleges, including Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Communication, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Music, Nursing, and Marine and Atmospheric Science (www.miami.edu). THE LIBRARY: The University of Miami Libraries (www.library.miami.edu) ranks among the top 50 research libraries in North America with a combined collection of approximately 3 million volumes, 48,000 current serials, and over 33,000 E-journal titles. The Otto G. Richter Library lies in the heart of the campus and serves as the central library for the University. Other University of Miami libraries include the Paul Buisson Architecture Library, the Judi Prokop Newman Business Information Resource Center, and the Marta & Austin Weeks Music Library, the Marine and Atmospheric Science Library, and the Louis Calder Memorial Library. The campus also has an independent Law library. The Libraries provide support and services for approx. 10,100 undergraduates, 5,100 graduate students, and 10,000 full and part time faculty and staff. The Libraries has a staff of 37 Librarians and 86 support staff and is a member of ARL, ASERL, CLIR, NERL, OCLC, RLG, and SOLINET. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:54:01 +0100 674360 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2008/11/recent-articles_19.html Some recent articles, all from priced publications I'm afraid. Firstly - the major annual annotated bibliography on information literacy has come out, covering 2007 publications. This is biased towards US publications, but is still always tremendously useful.Johnson, A., Jent, S., and Reynolds, L. (2008) "Library instruction and information literacy 2007" Reference Services Review, 36 (4), 450 - 514.Then there are a couple of publications which look at information behaviour. The first reports on students use of a self-diagnosis tool and the second is a study of information seeking in Second Life:Mansourian, Y. (2008) "Contextual elements and conceptual components of information visibility on the web." Library Hi Tech, 26 (3), 440 - 453.Ostrander, M. (2008) "Talking, looking, flying, searching: information seeking behavior in Second Life." Library Hi Tech, 26 (4). (available as an electronic pre-print, if you subscribe)Then, some articles talking about using games:Clyde, J. and Thomas, C. (2008) "Building an information literacy first-person shooter." Reference Services Review, 36 (4), 366 - 380.Markey, K. et al (2008) "Designing and Testing a Web-based Board Game for Teaching Information Literacy Skills and Concepts." Library Hi Tech, 26 (4). (available as an electronic pre-print, if you subscribe)Schiller, N. (2008) "A portal to student learning: what instruction librarians can learn from video game design." Reference Services Review, 36 (4), 351 - 365.Photo by Sheila Webber: Beech tree, Sheffield, November 2008. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674573 http://acrlog.org/2008/11/19/digital-scholarship-reconsidered/ In 1990 Ernest Boyer made an important contribution to the literature of higher education by authoring the book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Boyer’s material was based on the results of a 1989 survey of faculty across the nation sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Boyer said we must “…break out of the tired old teaching versus research debate and define, in more creative ways, what it means to be a scholar”. He described four types of scholarship in order to expand higher education’s thinking about what it meant to produce scholarly work; it needn’t be defined only by scholarly monographs or publications in high-impact peer review journals. Boyer suggested that teaching, application, and integration (of existing knowledge) could be as important to the advancement of knowledge and higher eduction as the scholarship of discovery. While Boyer’s work is considered a classic of higher education literature and is essential reading for academic librarians, the ideas in the book never really had much of an impact - at least not in the ways for which Boyer had hoped. Instead the academic community, has for the most part, stayed true to its one narrow vision of scholarship - the scholary journal article or book. Fast foward to 2008. A new report by the Ithaka Group explores how faculty make use of digital scholarly resources for their research, and some of these resources expand the notion of the phrase “scholarly resource.” In the report Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication authors Nancy Maron and Kirby Smith explore the range of digital resources being used by scholars for their research. These resources include e-only journals, data, blogs, and discussion forums. About blogs, the report says they are “being put to interesting use by scholars. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674356 http://lisnews.org/unc_remembered_librarians_will The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science will receive more than $1.1 million for student scholarships. Jane Iris Crutchfield, who died at the age of 92 on Dec. 10, 2006, was a lifelong teacher and school librarian. She taught at public schools in Virginia before returning to UNC in the 1950s to earn a bachelor’s degree in library science. Crutchfield’s gift will go to the library science school’s Susan Grey Akers Scholarship Fund, named after a former dean at the school. That endowment fund gives aid to students who are admitted to the school’s master’s program. It’s the largest gift ever given to the library science school. Bizjournals. (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:53:25 +0100 674133 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/19/biography-libel-case-briscoe The mother of a lawyer who says her daughter's best-selling "misery memoir" is fiction broke down in court yesterday as she told a jury how she had struggled to raise her family. Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell is suing barrister Constance Briscoe for libel. Briscoe alleged she had suffered abuse and neglect during her south London childhood in Ugly, the first part of her autobiography published in 2006.Briscoe-Mitchell began crying as she described her relationship with George Briscoe, father of seven of her 11 children, on the second day of the hearing at the high court in London at which she is also suing the book's publishers Hodder and Stoughton over her daughter's claims. Her counsel, William Panton, said Briscoe was "spinning a yarn". Her mother had worked as a dressmaker to keep her children, often without their father, and had provided for them equally to the best of her ability, an assertion supported by Briscoe's siblings, he said. Briscoe painted a picture of being regularly punched, kicked and beaten with a stick by her mother, said Panton, yet had not complained to police, social services or teachers.Briscoe's lawyer, Andrew Caldecott QC, said the jury must remember when they heard witnesses that they were dealing with events between 1964 and 1975 when Briscoe-Mitchell, 74, was in her prime, not a vulnerable old lady, and Briscoe was a child. "Constance Briscoe says she was the victim of sustained cruelty and serious neglect when she was a child. She chose to say it. She has to prove it."The trial was not of the accuracy of every word or paragraph in the book but of whether or not it was true that Briscoe was physically and emotionally abused by her mother over a lengthy period, said Caldecott. "We say this is a book that has its share of errors but it was properly put in the biography section of a bookshop, not in the fiction section."Briscoe-Mitchell was asked about her relationship with George Briscoe. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:17:02 +0100 674035 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/457510461/ I had breakfast with Meg Canada last weekend, while finishing my teaching duties in St. Paul. She shared with me a post she wrote at her blog called “How Librarians can be the Ultimate Community Managers.” Meg writes: What is a Community Manager? My friend, Connie Bensen introduced me to the concept at my first social media gathering. I know she has collaborated on the wikipedia definition, and as a librarian herself, and I hope she agrees with my assertion. Community managers help shape online spaces by representing organizations through starting and/or contributing to discussions. They are social media mavens and power users. Community managers solve problems, offer the best customer service, and give organizations a human face. I’ll be adding this to the list of emerging LIS jobs. How are we training new librarians to be Community Managers? Did you ever think that might be a role you’d play? Later she tape into that important bit about the ongoing conversation: Not enough of us tweet outside our community or seek out our users in other social media. Some success with MySpace and Facebook is promising, but we can’t just friend and fan eachother. We need to connect with our patrons, customers and users in online communities. Historically we may not be known for savvy communication skills, but here’s another opportunity. Gathering community input is also a key role of librarians. As we plan services, build new facilities, and evolve into our 21st century selves, libraries have to listen to what our community needs. Let’s face it Gen x and y aren’t attending community meetings at the library. The meetings are happening online. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:19:19 +0100 674091 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=252609408&oldid=prev Reverted edits by 209.250.172.41 (talk) to last version by Ohnoitsjamie ← Previous revision Revision as of 18:07, 18 November 2008 Line 19: Line 19: ==History== ==History== ===Antiquity=== ===Antiquity=== - The first libraries were composed, for the most part, of really lame librarians who don't let you play fun games. [[document|record]]s, a particular type of library called [[archives]]. Archaeological findings from the ancient [[city-states]] of [[Sumer]] have revealed temple rooms full of [[clay tablet]]s in [[cuneiform script]]. These archives were made up almost completely of the records of commercial transactions or inventories, with only a few documents touching theological matters, historical records or legends. Things were much the same in the government and temple records on [[papyrus]] of [[Ancient Egypt]]. + The first libraries were composed, for the most part, of unpublished [[document|record]]s, a particular type of library called [[archives]]. Archaeological findings from the ancient [[city-states]] of [[Sumer]] have revealed temple rooms full of [[clay tablet]]s in [[cuneiform script]]. These archives were made up almost completely of the records of commercial transactions or inventories, with only a few documents touching theological matters, historical records or legends. Things were much the same in the government and temple records on [[papyrus]] of [[Ancient Egypt]]. The earliest discovered private archives were kept at [[Ugarit]]; besides correspondence and inventories, texts of myths may have been standardized practice-texts for teaching new scribes. There is also evidence of libraries at [[Nippur]] about 1900 B.C. and those at [[Nineveh]] about 700 B.C. showing a [[library classification]] system.<ref>''The American International Encyclopedia'', J.J. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:07:01 +0100 673947 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=252609337&oldid=prev ← Previous revision Revision as of 18:06, 18 November 2008 Line 19: Line 19: ==History== ==History== ===Antiquity=== ===Antiquity=== - The first libraries were composed, for the most part, of unpublished [[document|record]]s, a particular type of library called [[archives]]. Archaeological findings from the ancient [[city-states]] of [[Sumer]] have revealed temple rooms full of [[clay tablet]]s in [[cuneiform script]]. These archives were made up almost completely of the records of commercial transactions or inventories, with only a few documents touching theological matters, historical records or legends. Things were much the same in the government and temple records on [[papyrus]] of [[Ancient Egypt]]. + The first libraries were composed, for the most part, of really lame librarians who don't let you play fun games. [[document|record]]s, a particular type of library called [[archives]]. Archaeological findings from the ancient [[city-states]] of [[Sumer]] have revealed temple rooms full of [[clay tablet]]s in [[cuneiform script]]. These archives were made up almost completely of the records of commercial transactions or inventories, with only a few documents touching theological matters, historical records or legends. Things were much the same in the government and temple records on [[papyrus]] of [[Ancient Egypt]]. The earliest discovered private archives were kept at [[Ugarit]]; besides correspondence and inventories, texts of myths may have been standardized practice-texts for teaching new scribes. There is also evidence of libraries at [[Nippur]] about 1900 B.C. and those at [[Nineveh]] about 700 B.C. showing a [[library classification]] system.<ref>''The American International Encyclopedia'', J.J. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:06:38 +0100 673948 http://lisnews.org/high_school_knitters_librarian_help_infants_developing_world Some students at Lower Cape May Regional High School (LCMR) are picking up a new hobby and saving lives. The NJ school’s knitting club kicked off this fall when Art Teacher Susan Wolfe and Librarian Tish Carpinelli invited skilled and novice knitters to the library to learn about and improve their knitting skills while making caps that can help save the lives of babies in the developing world. Simple health measure are the key to saving many of these children: antibiotics to fight infections, training for skilled birth attendants, immunizations, on education on breastfeeding and basic care such as drying a newborn baby and keeping it warm. (That’s where the hats come in.) The program has attracted knitters from around the world, including high profile knitters like actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Debra Messing and about two dozens LCMR students. Just a few students showed up for the first meeting, but the excitement spread (fueled by Wolfe’s homemade cookies), and more students are participating every week. Story from Cape May County Herald. Sounds like a great activity! (Source: LISNews.org) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:48:22 +0100 673928 http://librarian.lishost.org/?p=1776 ========= From: tsticht@znet.com Subject: [Workplace 1666] Thinking about the NIFL Send reply to: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List Colleagues: In July 1991, the President of the United States signed Public Law 102-73 which, among other things, established the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL). The law called on the NIFL to conduct basic and applied research and demonstrations. Though the actual agenda for the NIFL was not specified, examples of questions to be addressed were given. These included: 1. How do adults learn to read and write and acquire other skills (listening, speaking, reasoning, etc.)? 2. How does the literacy level of the parents affect the skills development and schooling of the parent’s children? 3. What are better ways to assess literacy skills? 4. How can better instructional programs be developed? 5. What are good methods for assisting adults and families to acquire literacy skills, including the use of technology; methods for adults with special learning needs (learning disabilities), and limited English proficient (LEP) adults? 6. How can the most disadvantaged be effectively reached and taught literacy skills? 7. How can technology be used to instruct and to increase the knowledge base? 8. How can research effort of others be built on? 9. How can the field attract, train and retrain professional and volunteer teachers? We are now nearing the end of 2008, some 18 years after the NIFL was established, and I am wondering what adult literacy professionals think of these questions: were they appropriate for the work of the NIFL, if so, how well have they been addressed, and if there were other questions that took priority and were addressed by the NIFL, and how any one or all of these activities have improved the field of adult literacy education up to now. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:49:38 +0100 674017 http://www.lisnews.org/librarians_widow_wins_damages Lakewood NJ: The Board of Education has agreed to pay $32,500 to settle a lawsuit brought by the widow of a former librarian whom she said died partly because of harassment from his co-workers and superiors. Cheryl A. Watson, in her complaint filed with the state Superior Court in April 2007, claimed Assistant Superintendent Joseph C. Attardi, Assistant Principal Anne D. Luick, teacher and librarian Roz Renner, and other school officials discriminated against her late husband, George Watson Jr., because of his race and disabilities. Here is his 2005 obituary. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:11:58 +0100 673875 http://lisnews.org/librarians_widow_wins_damages Lakewood NJ: The Board of Education has agreed to pay $32,500 to settle a lawsuit brought by the widow of a former librarian whom she said died partly because of harassment from his co-workers and superiors. Cheryl A. Watson, in her complaint filed with the state Superior Court in April 2007, claimed Assistant Superintendent Joseph C. Attardi, Assistant Principal Anne D. Luick, teacher and librarian Roz Renner, and other school officials discriminated against her late husband, George Watson Jr., because of his race and disabilities. Here is his 2005 obituary. (Source: LISNews.org) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:11:58 +0100 673872 http://www.infotogo.com/users/index.asp?RSS=32144 "Teach Engineering is a searchable, Web-based digital library collection populated with standards-based engineering curricula for use by K-12 teachers and engineering faculty to make applied scie... (Source: Info To Go: Navigating the Internet) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:04:00 +0100 673741 http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/libraries.php?title=title_129&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Contact: Erin Lawrimore (919) 513-1188 The North Carolina State University Special Collections Research Center announces the acquisition of a new collection related to the study of sociolinguistics. The Walt Wolfram Sociolinguistic Collection, 1969-1986, contains audio recordings of interviews conducted early in Wolfram’s career with speakers of Appalachian English, Puerto Rican English, Vietnamese English, Ozark English, and African-American vernacular English. The collection also features transcripts of many of the interviews and manuscripts of Wolfram’s resulting work on these dialects. Stanford sociolinguist John Rickford describes Wolfram as the “complete linguist, an exceptional example of how to combine theory and application, research and teaching, and service. . . and he has endeavored to use his knowledge to increase the public good. . .” Wolfram has pioneered research on social and ethnic dialects since the 1960s, authoring or co-authoring 20 books and more than 250 articles on varieties of American English. A central focus of his work has always been the application of sociolinguistic information to social and educational problems and the dissemination of knowledge about dialects to the public. This connection has resulted in the production of television documentaries on dialect diversity, the construction of museum exhibits, and the development of dialect awareness curricula for the schools and general public. Since joining NCSU faculty in 1992, Wolfram has concentrated his efforts on preserving the rich linguistic heritage of North Carolina and raising public awareness of its cultural significance. He established the North Carolina Language and Life Project (NCLLP) in 1993, a project that focuses on research, graduate and undergraduate education, and outreach programs related to language in the American South. Walt Wolfram is William C. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:30:02 +0100 673823 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/457081306/international-conference-on-academic.html International Conference on Academic Libraries is being organized to come up with a vision for next generation academic libraries in order to meet the challenge of knowledge society, in giving the country a competitive edge in knowledge economy. The conference will provide an international platform to all stakeholders to address all issues of importance to academic libraries, discuss and debate roles that academic libraries can play in the higher education system in developed and developing countries with particular reference to India by 2020. The scope of the conference will be: knowledge sharing, ICT management, digital repository management, e-teaching, e-tutorials, stronger library-faculty relationships, and user centric services - October 5-8, 2009 - Delhi, India (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:26:19 +0100 674053 http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/search-engine-optimization/ Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide is a document that first began as an effort to help teams within Google, but we thought it’d be just as useful to webmasters that are new to the topic of search engine optimization and wish to improve their sites’ interaction with both users and search engines. Search engine optimization is often about making small modifications to parts of your website. When viewed individually, these changes might seem like incremental improvements, but when combined with other optimizations, they could have a noticeable impact on your site’s user experience and performance in organic search results. If you are a webmaster, you’re likely already familiar with many of the topics in this guide, because they’re essential ingredients for any webpage, but you may not be making the most out of them. From teachers or an information professionals point of view, understanding this guide is also important. It’s a level of understanding that can be used by us to help guide our own student’s interaction with the online world. They need to know about search optimization - because the world is often more about marketing than it is about altruistic sharing of information! Posted in Information Literacy, Search, Web 2.0       (Source: heyjude) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:30:57 +0100 674000 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=A_quotCommonsquot_Experience_Five_Benefits_of_the_Information_Commons_--- Dean of Library Services Michele Russo at IUSB said: "We envisioned making the Library a true teaching-learning-research center by creating an Inform (Source: pligg - all) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:00:26 +0100 673797 http://www.tangognat.com/2008/11/17/amethyst-princess-of-gemworld-8-second-series/ This issue is the halfway point of the second mini-series. It features the final confrontation between Amethyst and Fire Jade aka the late Lady Emerald. Also, Citrina wakes up for some cosmic magical shenanigans. The cover shows a giant spectral Amethyst and Fire Jade slugging it out over the Emerald Castle while a crowd looks on. The text on the cover proclaims “From Death a New Beginning!” and the title of the issue is “Rebirth.” The Gemworld has a unique approach to video conference calling. Amethyst, Prince Garnet, and Princess Emerald are talking to the other nobles through some purple bubbles that show their disembodied heads. Lord Ruby thinks that Prince Garnet is mistaken, but Amethyst believes him. She’s called everyone together to tell them that Fire Jade is really the Lady Emerald. For some reason Lord Garnet isn’t there, maybe they are saving the big reunion scene with his son for later? Lady Topaz, charming as ever, suggests that Amethyst has gone mad because Lady Emerald is dead. There’s a bunch of exposition from Prince Garnet outlining why Lady Emerald has returned from the dead as Fire Jade. Then he drops a tidbit of information that explains why the storms and Citrina’s illness are linked. Citrina didn’t discover the Gemworld, she actually created it out of bits of magic from different worlds. She was the most powerful sorcerer of Earth when she was young. (As always, click to make the images bigger) Fire Jade’s plan of creating storms to weaken the Gemworld’s magic and sending Sardonyx to kill Citrina had one goal - the total annihilation of the Gemworld. If Citrina dies the Gemworld will cease to exist. Prince Garnet warns that he expects Fire Jade to attack the Emerald Domain first, because she’ll be strongest there. If they fail to fight her off the other nobles must prepare their own defenses. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:28:04 +0100 673768 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FlaJobline/~3/456640736/reference-librarian-airdrie-public.html Position Title: Reference Librarian (Information Services) – Part-TimeReports to: Adult Services CoordinatorAirdrie Public Library is a member of the Marigold Library System and is one of the fastest growing libraries in one of the fastest growing cities in Alberta. The Library has an immediate opening for a Part-Time Reference (Information Services) position. We offer a flexible and supportive work environment, and value initiative and lifelong learning. Position Summary:The successful candidate will be responsible for the following duties:Providing information services to the public using print and electronic resources;Providing Reader’s advisory to staff and the public;Promoting the Library’s services and collections;Assisting with Collection Development: reference materials, Fiction, and Non-Fiction; Providing Technology Training and Tutoring to the public; Qualifications:The successful candidate will have a professional and positive approach and a genuine interest in serving the various customers that frequent the public library. Library Technician diploma or other relevant post secondary education training;Experience in providing information services to customers;Experience in providing technology training (computer, e-resources, and Internet);Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational skills, and customer service skills. Assets:Adult Education experience or an Education degree;Public Library experience;A great sense of humor, flexibility, creativity and a commitment to organizational excellence and team building. Future Possibilities: In a mid-sized library there is an opportunity to serve in other areas, based on strengths and interests: Preschool Literacy ProgramsTechnology Training/Teaching OpportunitiesTechnical Services Duties: Interlibrary Loan, Acquisitions Employment Terms: Part-time position offering 15-25 hours weekly. Some evening and weekend shifts required. Security check required. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:49:44 +0100 673845 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FlaJobline/~3/456640737/health-sciences-liaison-librarian.html Tenure - Track Position Health Sciences Liaison Librarian The University of Saskatchewan Library provides tremendous opportunities for professional growth and development in a dynamic and flexible work environment. We operate within a supportive campus community focused on innovation, collaboration and engagement. The University Library is strategically aligned with the University’s vision focusing on the teacher learner experience; the research, scholar and practitioner interaction; building broad relationship and engagement opportunities; and is constantly improving the operational effectiveness of the Library with a strong focus on employee engagement. Accountabilities of the Position This position reports to the Head of the Health Sciences Library. Librarians, as faculty, are assigned duties aligned with the practice of professional skills in the Library Standards for Promotion and Tenure (2003, as amended). Duties may cover the development of the collections, organizing collections, teaching information research skills, information services, information technology, administration, and research/scholarly work. Practice of Professional SkillsThe University of Saskatchewan Library follows the liaison librarian model, which includes reference, instruction, and collections responsibilities to support on-site and distributed teaching, learning, and research. As part of the Health Sciences Library team, this position supports all health sciences disciplines.Development of the CollectionsDevelop collections and information resources in the health sciences, primarily in the areas of physical therapy and basic medical sciences, as well as the Health Sciences Library reference collection. Information ServicesAs part of the Library’s integrated reference model, provide reference and information services, for students, faculty, researchers, and the broader community. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:37:12 +0100 673846 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/456101316/a-commons-experience.html In "The Comedy of the Commons," Dr. Carol M. Rose describes the commons as a place where each person adds more value. In our LIS701 course here at Dominican, we use Rose to illustrate the potential and usefulness of common spaces in relation to different types of libraries and what they might mean to their users. According to Rose,  "The more who join and use the commons, the greater the enjoyment of each participant."This was entirely evident in the series of field trips I made this year to visit library spaces that had integrated the idea of the commons. Reflecting on those visits, I see the common threads that connect them: space, technology,  and a culture of collaboration and innovation. I also see the benefits, especially after visiting the spaces and viewing photos of them in use.I just blogged about "Seven Ways to Think About Information Literacy" at TTW this week. Liz Wilkinson's points from her presentation include:1. Literacy beyond text2. Student centered, not library centered3. Outside experts4. Involve students5. Use students’ environments6. Learning by doing7. Make students feel at homeThese ideas also apply to understanding importance of the Commons space. Reflecting further and with inspiration from Wilkinson, I'd offer these five benefits of creating such a space in your academic library:The Commons puts students at the center. The idea of student-centered innovation was a theme woven throughout the commons field trips. The commons did not make it any easier for the librarians or to enforce library policies. In fact, Stacey Greenwell of the University was happy to tell me that they made it easier for students to use their cell phones in "the Hub." "Yes, that’s right—at the Hub we actually installed infrastructure to make it easier for students to use cell phones. We actually encourage cell phone use. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:33:46 +0100 674225 http://www.lisnews.org/uc_librarians_deserve_raise The American Federation of Teachers, on behalf of University of California librarians, began talks Nov. 5 over librarian salaries and the availability of professional development funds. Negotiators aim to raise librarian salaries to a level comparable to those at the California State University and California community college systems. The negotiations will also address economic concerns that have risen over the past several years, including childcare support and tuition waivers for librarians. The talks follow negotiations held last spring between UC-AFT negotiators and university administrators regarding all noneconomic concerns raised by UC librarians and UC-AFT. UCSD Guardian reports: UC-AFT has expressed alarm over the UC campuses losing several places in the annual Association of Research rankings. Negotiators attribute this drop to unsatisfactory recruitment and retention rates for UC librarians. According to UC-AFT, these retention problems are a result of uncompetitive salary rates when compared to those offered by private sector libraries, California public libraries, CSU campuses and community college libraries. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:12:21 +0100 673880 http://lisnews.org/uc_librarians_deserve_raise The American Federation of Teachers, on behalf of University of California librarians, began talks Nov. 5 over librarian salaries and the availability of professional development funds. Negotiators aim to raise librarian salaries to a level comparable to those at the California State University and California community college systems. The negotiations will also address economic concerns that have risen over the past several years, including childcare support and tuition waivers for librarians. The talks follow negotiations held last spring between UC-AFT negotiators and university administrators regarding all noneconomic concerns raised by UC librarians and UC-AFT. UCSD Guardian reports: UC-AFT has expressed alarm over the UC campuses losing several places in the annual Association of Research rankings. Negotiators attribute this drop to unsatisfactory recruitment and retention rates for UC librarians. According to UC-AFT, these retention problems are a result of uncompetitive salary rates when compared to those offered by private sector libraries, California public libraries, CSU campuses and community college libraries. (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:12:21 +0100 673553 http://acrlog.org/2008/11/17/with-a-tangled-skein/ My library, and the branch campus where I work, is quite small and in a very rural part of Alabama.  We have about 250 students right now, though enrollment doubled since we opened the new building and we expect it to keep growing.  I’ve been quite busy the last few weeks with a new and rather odd trend, and I’m wondering if it’s demographically based or perhaps caused by a wierd atmospheric disturbance.  Students are coming to me to ask how to do assignments for other instructors.  I’ve gotten used to teaching basic computer literacy, “This is a mouse” or “this is how you print,” or “this is how you make Powerpoint print slides with six on a page.”  We are heavily invested in technology, and almost every class requires the students to do some work within our WebCT/Blackboard framework.  So of course I’m also answering a LOT of questions about how to attach documents and how to use the email system, but I expect that.  Recently, though, the threads of my library life have become a bit more knotty as it appears students are thinking I am nearly all-knowing.  Heh. Two weeks ago I had a student come in and ask “I have this assignment due, can you tell me what I’m supposed to do?”  I said sure, assuming it was a research assignment and that she needed help with getting started.  Nope.  It was a math assignment.  And it wasn’t that she didn’t know how to print it out, or save it to her jump drive.  She wanted me to tell her how to do the math problems.  I was an English major in college and math is not so much my strong suit!  I recommended that she see her instructor.  She hemmed and hawed as though she thought I was holding back on her. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:52:34 +0100 673493 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/456275795/ I have a new post up at ALA TechSource: http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2008/11/a-commons-experience.html The Commons puts students at the center. The idea of student-centered innovation was a theme woven throughout the commons field trips. The commons did not make it any easier for the librarians or to enforce library policies. In fact, Stacy Greenwell of the University was happy to tell me that they made it easier for students to use their cell phones in “the Hub.” “Yes, that’s right—at the Hub we actually installed infrastructure to make it easier for students to use cell phones. We actually encourage cell phone use. Truly the Hub is a No Shushing Zone.” The Commons is built with student involvement. Stacy Greenwell of “the Hub” told me that along with the innovations the librarians wanted at UK,  “we sought student input throughout the planning process”.  Bob Seal highlighted the ways his librarians discovered students needed: space, access to technology, and ease of use. The Commons is a welcoming, useful gathering place. The folks at Indiana University South Bend started with a specific goal: to be a welcoming center on campus. Michele Russo detailed this idea when it came to the desk: “The new service desk was also designed to send a welcoming message.  It allows space for librarians, IT consultants, and multimedia specialists to work at one of two levels.” The Zones at Georgia Tech included flexible “anything and everything” spaces. Faculty might give a lecture in the morning, folowed by a DDR tournament in the afternoon and video creation in the evening. The Commons makes connections. These connections might be between students, betweeen students and library staff, or between students and the various faculty and staff that may use the space as well. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:33:45 +0100 673632 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/YB194/Leading_Technical_Developer/ Learning and Teaching Solutions (LTS) - Open University / Date of entry: 17/11/08 (Source: jobs in Information Management and Librarianship from www.jobs.ac.uk) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:38:02 +0100 673469 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/456040473/ A couple posts ago, I suggested that libraries stop friending other libraries and to focus instead on their local community. (aside - If you need/want to connect with other librarians, that’s great - make your own personal account for that). Now, on to how? What are the different ways one can friend others in popular social networking sites, and how can you find and attract friends in each? That’s a bit more difficult, and takes a bit more work. I’ll take a couple of posts and give some pointers (and would love for you to join in and suggest your own idea,s too!). Here are some general ideas that work for most of the new social networking tools: Setting goals (have I mentioned this one enough?). You need to figure out what you want to achieve with your twitter/facebook/etc account. Do this first! Focus on a target audience - it might help to focus on a target audience, rather than to focus on a generic “patron.” Be human, instead of a stuffy organization. @Zappos and @Timbuk2 do this well in Twitter - when you send them a question or comment about their product, you generally get a real, live person replying, being helpful, answering questions, etc. (hmm… that sorta sounds like a reference librarian). Good content rules! Make interesting posts/tweets/updates Advertise/promote it! Think business cards in the library, articles in the library newsletter, etc. Link to it on your website, and explain what it is and why I should care. Find out where people who use these tools hang out, and go there. And post flyers, pass out cards with your social networking info on it, etc. in those establishments (I’m thinking bulletin board in a coffee shop here). Teach classes on the tool. Show attendees how to set up an account, and how to follow the library. Instant followers! Even better - do the same thing at a local chamber brown bag lunch or other business oriented gathering. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:43:38 +0100 673981 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ouseful/~3/456002988/ One of the things I’ve noticed about Twitter is that if you post a link there to a recent blog post, the post can start to get read very quickly. I’ve done a couple of experiments by tweeting links to old posts and comment threads to see if it can give them a little burst of renewed life, and I can anecdotally report that it does seem to work, if you get your twittertext right… And it’s potentially also a way of using a subset of readers as a sounding board for whether or not to post more widely, to a larger set of readers. So for example, on Friday I replied to a comment on an earlier post (Printing Out Online Course Materials With Embedded Movie Links) with a rather <ranty> comment of my own… and got the following tweet back from @jukesie: So here goes - I’ve blockquoted it, but it’s not strictly a quote - I have made a few minor changes - so if you want to read the comment in it’s original form, and in the original context, you can find it here. The context was whether there was any value in adding a QR code visual link to a Youtube movie in the print stylesheet of a piece of online learning material that included an embedded video. I picked up a catch phrase earlier today, about what UK HE needs: Flexibility, Innovation, Imagination. So here’s my problem. The future lies around us, and some of us paddle in it. Innovation in the OU is hard to achieve - the feeling is whatever we give to our students, it has to scale and it has to be equally accessible to everyone. We often go for lowest common denominator plays, particularly with respect to assumptions about the availability of technology. The Innovator’s Dilemma rules… Time out: When I play with mashups - when I play with ideas - I’m balancing logic rocks. Sometimes they fall over, but that’s okay; if I wanted to build something a little longer lasting, I’d use concrete. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:31:35 +0100 674116 http://www.infotogo.com/users/index.asp?RSS=32413 "Traditional legal memoranda have been used to teach objective analysis since the inception of legal writing programs in the 1970’s. The continued use of these memoranda in the legal writin... (Source: Info To Go: Navigating the Internet) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:19:00 +0100 673340 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2008/11/17/educators-and-social-networks/ What do educators get out of being part of a social network? support from fellow educators, like-minded teachers new ideas information about trends, events, new publications professional development, both incidental and intentional just in time assistance - you can ask questions the opportunity to “define” yourself a place to create an online e-portfolio development of your understanding of, and confidence in using, web [...] (Source: Education.au Blog) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:20:24 +0100 673333 http://comunisfera.blogspot.com/2008/11/excelencia-docente-propsito-de-bain.html Cuando una universidad se convence de que no puede sacar más institutos de investigación, pasa a ocuparse de la docencia. En la fiebre española uno de los virus ha sido el Ken Bain’s What the Best College Teachers Do.El premiado éxito editorial de 2004 se propone:I hope this book will inspire readers to make a systematic and reflective appraisal of their own teaching approaches and strategies, asking themselves why they do certain kinds of things and not others….Ideally, readers will treat their teaching as they likely already treat their own scholarship or artistic creations: as serious and important intellectual and creative work, as an endeavor that benefits from careful observation and close analysis, from revision and refinement, and from dialogues with colleagues and the critiques of peers.Un buen día el libro te llega de un vicerrectorado, como regalo de Navidad, traducido al valenciano (2006), al gallego (2007), etc..Pero ¿la excelencia docente es un patrón que se puede estandarizar? El autor recorrió el país (USA) con un presupuesto para exprimir el zumo de los mejores. Lo entiendo allí. Pero necesito que me expliquen porque ven exportables sus conclusiones.El relato es emotivo y motivante. Para quien esté molesto con este trabajo nuestro hay frases que lo van a sacar de sus casillas porque en los modelos del libro:no siguen cronogramas ni se someten a un temario prefijado.no se coordinan con otros profesores que impartan su misma asignatura.no evalúan a sus alumnos con exámenes comunes con los grupos impartidos por otros profesores,no están obligados a poner notas de 0 a 10 con una cifra decimal.no son androides teledirigidos por una normativa omnímoda.Esta aguda lectura del texto, mira más el contexto en el que trabajamos. Pero se puede escribir una antología de maestros de cada región. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:54:00 +0100 674243 http://ulo.tricho.us/?p=114 My kid Nemo is lucky to go to a really great school: Ann Arbor Open School @ Mack. One of my very favorite things they do at Open School is called Focus Studies: three times a year, for 2 weeks, a mini-elective is shoehorned into each day. There are usually 25 or so different Focus Studies to choose from, offered by teachers, staff, and parents. Some are creative, like knitting, building a model, poetry, or writing and staging a play; or there’s a Basketball clinic, a Euchre tournament, a Spanish class, all kinds of stuff. Last year I offered a Focus Study called “Pokémon and Probability” for grades 5-8, and it was a blast. Of course, I learned a lot about what worked and what didn’t, how to engage the kids and keep them focused on some content that’s above grade level. I wrote out lesson plans and everything, but I didn’t keep notes on what happened, so much of what we did was lost to the mists of time. Well, not exactly, but I wanted to blog about it and didn’t, so I’m fixing that this time around. This year, with the assistance of Eric ‘rhymes with toaster’ Klooster, I’m offering Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-powered Battle Cars: The Focus Study. Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars is a wonderful little game from the Playstation Network that essentially boils down to playing soccer using , well, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars. One thing that I found last year when talking about content that the kids had had essentially no exposure to (like, say, the concept of a spreadsheet!?) was that kids were reluctant to throw out guesses to leading questions if they didn’t know the answer. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:14:07 +0100 673956 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2008/11/spring-2009-reserve-materials.html Are you teaching during spring, 2009, semester? If so, it's not too early to think about materials for library reserve, especially if you want to use a new edition or titles we do not own. Information is available online at http://library.wustl.edu/units/biology/reserve.html. Please let us hear from you. (Source: Biology Library News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673820 http://www.traffick.com/2008/11/ses-chicago-is-jessica-bowmans-favorite.asp Jessica Bowman, an in-house SEO expert who has built in-house SEO programs at Yahoo and Enterprise Rent-a-Car, will be back to join attendees and fellow speaking alumni for this year's Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference.Recently Jessica was overheard telling friends that SES Chicago is her favorite SES. We caught up with Jessica to get to the bottom of this. We also asked Jessica for a few other thoughts and pointers about conference life and large-organization SEO.Traffick: Jessica, you've been overheard stating that SES Chicago is your favorite SES conference of all! I don't hear that so much. People may mention San Jose because of the great weather and the Google Dance, or New York or London because, well, they're New York and London. Me, I have a bunch of reasons to prefer SES Toronto above any other. But Chicago?!? My Page Zero posse and I have a lot of fond memories of that conference to be sure, but maybe you can share your reasons for liking this one the best?J.B.: It's my favorite event because it's more intimate than all of the other shows. The show is at the same location as the conference hotel, so you don't have to go out in the cold, and you can sneak a few winks during lunch if you need them. Because of this, everyone is condensed within the Hilton, which makes constant opportunities for interaction. And, there are two great bars where everyone congregates in the evenings where you can talk more candidly and interact with the speakers you saw during the day.Traffick: Other than eating a piece of the giant candy Christmas decoration in the Hilton lobby and getting ill, I have one SES Chicago memory (non content related) that really stands out: Buddy Guy himself getting up to do a number at his blues club (Buddy Guy's). Sample lyrics: "Hey all you Yahoo people, why don't you call me on the phone..." Anyway. Do you have any spectacular memories?J.B. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673465 http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/11/deconstructing-scientific-articles.html I spent some time this evening reading thoughtful, well-reasoned critiques of a few recent medical studies. On his blog, Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience, Steven Salzberg describes 5 problems about the recent report that Cresor can result in "a 'dramatic risk reduction' in heart attack risk for men."In Serious doubts about new study of statins and heart disease, Salzberg summarizes the studies: "[they] claimed that people with normal cholesterol levels could get significant health benefits [by taking Crestor]. If true, [these two studies] impl[y] that millions more people should start taking statins to protect themselves against heart attacks." He adds "[t]his new finding is rife with problems, despite the breathless news reporting about it" and goes on to describe 5 of them:"Both studies were funded by AstraZeneca, the drug company that sells Crestor," although Salzberg is quick to add that this is clearly disclosed in both articles.The lead author of both studies is Paul Ridker, who owns the patent on the primary test for C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, and he stands to benefit financially if more people are tested for CRP. Again, Salzberg calls this only eyebrow-worthy, as this is clearly stated in both articles.Although it suggests that a seven-variable method is more predictive than the traditional five-variable model, "the Circulation study didn’t report separately on the effect of CRP and family history of heart disease.""[T]he NEJM [New England Journal of Medicine] study actually reports a very small benefit: ... you’d have to treat 95 people for 2 years with statins to prevent 1 heart attack.""The patients in the NEJM study were randomly divided into two groups, treatment (Crestor) and placebo [and] there are 3 critical variables where the two groups are not identical. ... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:30:00 +0100 673255 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/digizen/~3/455183505/ YouTube es sin duda uno de los sitios que brindan una buena cantidad de videos educativos. Sin embargo, no debemos detener nuestra búsqueda allí. Como se reseña en este artículo de Free Technology for Teachers hay una variedad de sitios en donde podamos encontrar videos que podemos integrar en nuestras clases. De la lista me llamaron la atención Big Think y Fora TV. Allí encontré dos excelentes presentaciones: una de la analista junguiana Jean Shinoda Bolen y otra de la escritora Gail Sheehy. Ambas charlas giran en torno al impacto de enfermedades terminales y su significado para el desarrollo espiritual. En la charla de Shinoda Bolen se  hace referencia a un poema de Mary Oliver titulado “The Summer Day”   que termina preguntando: Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? The Summer Day Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. ... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:22:03 +0100 673249 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=252164547&oldid=prev Reverted edits by 88.108.136.160 (talk) to last version by Wordbuilder ← Previous revision Revision as of 15:10, 16 November 2008 Line 22: Line 22: The earliest discovered private archives were kept at [[Ugarit]]; besides correspondence and inventories, texts of myths may have been standardized practice-texts for teaching new scribes. There is also evidence of libraries at [[Nippur]] about 1900 B.C. and those at [[Nineveh]] about 700 B.C. showing a [[library classification]] system.<ref>''The American International Encyclopedia'', J.J. Little & Ives, New York 1954, Volume IX</ref> The earliest discovered private archives were kept at [[Ugarit]]; besides correspondence and inventories, texts of myths may have been standardized practice-texts for teaching new scribes. There is also evidence of libraries at [[Nippur]] about 1900 B.C. and those at [[Nineveh]] about 700 B.C. showing a [[library classification]] system.<ref>''The American International Encyclopedia'', J.J. Little & Ives, New York 1954, Volume IX</ref> -   - i love the way the people shaggggggggggggggggggg woooooooooooooooooop woooooooooooooooooooooooooooop   ===Libraries in Persian Empire=== ===Libraries in Persian Empire=== Line 61: Line 59: ===Middle Ages=== ===Middle Ages=== Elsewhere in the [[Early Middle Ages]], after the [[fall of the Western Roman Empire]] and before the rise of the large Western [[Christianity|Christian]] [[monastery]] libraries beginning at [[Montecassino]], libraries were found in scattered places in the Christian [[Middle East]]. ... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:10:00 +0100 673194 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=252161338&oldid=prev Antiquity ← Previous revision Revision as of 14:48, 16 November 2008 Line 22: Line 22: The earliest discovered private archives were kept at [[Ugarit]]; besides correspondence and inventories, texts of myths may have been standardized practice-texts for teaching new scribes. There is also evidence of libraries at [[Nippur]] about 1900 B.C. and those at [[Nineveh]] about 700 B.C. showing a [[library classification]] system.<ref>''The American International Encyclopedia'', J.J. Little & Ives, New York 1954, Volume IX</ref> The earliest discovered private archives were kept at [[Ugarit]]; besides correspondence and inventories, texts of myths may have been standardized practice-texts for teaching new scribes. There is also evidence of libraries at [[Nippur]] about 1900 B.C. and those at [[Nineveh]] about 700 B.C. showing a [[library classification]] system.<ref>''The American International Encyclopedia'', J.J. Little & Ives, New York 1954, Volume IX</ref>   +   + i love the way the people shaggggggggggggggggggg woooooooooooooooooop woooooooooooooooooooooooooooop ===Libraries in Persian Empire=== ===Libraries in Persian Empire=== (Source: Library - Revision history) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:48:39 +0100 673166 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Librarian&diff=252083312&oldid=prev Education ← Previous revision Revision as of 02:56, 16 November 2008 Line 50: Line 50: == Education == == Education == - In the United States and Canada, a librarian normally has a one or two-year [[master's degree]] in [[library and information science]], [[library science]] or [[information science]] (called an MLS, MALIS, MSLS, MIS, MSIS, MS-LIS, MISt, MLIS, or MILS) from an accredited university.<ref name="become"/> These degrees are accredited by the [[American Library Association]] and can have specializations within fields such as [[Archive|archiving]], [[records management]], [[information architecture]], public librarianship, medical librarianship, law librarianship, special librarianship, academic librarianship, or school (K-12) librarianship. School librarians often are required to have a [[teaching credential]], as well as a library science degree. Many, if not most, academic librarians also have a second, subject-based master's degree. + In the United States and Canada, a librarian normally has a one or two-year [[master's degree]] in [[library and information science]], [[library science]] or [[information science]] (called an MLS, MALIS, MSLS, MIS, MSIS, MS-LIS, MISt, MLIS, or MILS) from an accredited university.<ref name="become"/> These degrees are accredited by the [[American Library Association]] and can have specializations within fields such as [[Archive|archiving]], [[records management]], [[information architecture]], public librarianship, medical librarianship, law librarianship, special librarianship, academic librarianship, or school (K-12) librarianship. School librarians often are required to have a [[teaching credential]], as well as a library science degree. Many, if not most, academic librarians also have a second, subject-based master's degree. This is especially true of four year colleges. ... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:56:55 +0100 673334 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Booksquare/~3/454263175/ I cringe a little when I hear that someone is “working on a viral campaign” for a product or service. I see viral marketing as taking a fingers crossed approach to marketing — hoping that you’ve created something cool enough that others will want to pass it on to their friends — while social networking means that you take an active role in cultivating and maintaining relationships with your friends, customers, fans, and other interested parties. To me, it’s the difference between passive and proactive action. Social networking is not a magic new concept. If anything, it’s a return to basics: talking to your customers, reminding them that they are important to you. The only difference between then and now is that your customers are everywhere and technology gives you the power to find them, listen to them, talk to them, and build relationships that extend long beyond the boundaries of a traditional marketing campaign. Social networking, by its very definition, is a sustained, ongoing process. If you’re a publisher, this is requires changing your thinking. You’ve traditionally maintained some distance from your ultimate customers: readers. People buy books from retailers. Retailers buy books from distributors. You might take out some ads and put dollars into promo, but you haven’t spent a lot of time talking to readers. Focus groups don’t count. It’s time to get your hands dirty, to dig into the real-world conversation. It’s a weird thing, and sometimes awkward and uncomfortable, especially if you’re accustomed to public relations-speak and the cheerleader behavior that accompanies marketing messages. When you talk directly to real people who read and buy books, they tune you out when you try to stay on message. If they wanted to rehash cover copy, they’d read the back of the book. ... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:35:07 +0100 673044 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2008/11/jorum-forum.html Jorum is an online repository for learning and teaching materials. There is a free event on 10 December in Manchester, UK, for Jorum users to discuss the existing service and its future. Email Nicola Siminson, Jorum Community Enhancement Officer, at: nicola.siminson@manchester.ac.uk if you want to attend. Jorum is at http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:53:00 +0100 673191 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=4805 State: Illinois The Illinois Wesleyan University Library invites applications for the position of Information Literacy Librarian, available August 1, 2009. This is a tenure track faculty position intended to provide leadership for the Library’s information literacy program that complements the work of our teaching faculty. IWU is a nationally ranked, fully accredited undergraduate university with 2100 students and provides the highest quality liberal arts education. IWU has adopted a strategic plan that commits to the goal of creating a welcoming, inclusive, multicultural campus where all community members appreciate and respect the diversity of the nation and the world. The University welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds who are committed to an inclusive environment. The Ames Library offers a learning environment that is conducive to interaction, consultation, study, and reflection, dedicated to serving the scholarly needs of the Illinois Wesleyan University community. Opened in 2002, the library facility comprises 103,000 square feet on five levels, with a diverse collection of over 400,000 volumes. The Thorpe Digital Center supports campus-wide digital resources and services, providing expert assistance with projects integrating video, audio, image and textual content. The Library personnel consist of nine full-time faculty librarians and twelve full-time support staff. ... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:12:01 +0100 672835 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/453506361/melinda-gates-speech-on-new-college.html 11/11/2008Melinda GatesNovember 11, 2008Prepared Remarks by Melinda French Gates, Co-chair and TrusteeEditor's note: Read Bill Gates' comments at the Forum on Education, which followed Melinda French Gates' remarks.It was a pleasure for Bill and for me to host you last night atour home, and we’re delighted to see you again this morning. We’reeager to talk with you about our work in education, because no matterhow sound our strategy may be—and we are counting on your candidopinion—this work will not succeed without your support and yourpartnership. We are meeting one week after an historic presidentialelection. President-elect Obama campaigned on the promise of change. Hehas expressed a strong commitment to education, and we are optimisticabout the role an Obama administration will play over the next fouryears in supporting change in our schools. Unfortunately, the urgent needs of our schools are competingfor attention with many other important issues. As we all know, we’veentered a financial crisis that rightly occupies the attention andconcern of the country. But it should not make us forget the peoplewhose lives are difficult even in the best of times. Because today, America’s long history of upward mobility is in danger.Historically in America, there have been two paths out ofpoverty. In the decades after World War II, good wages for factoryworkers offered an upward path for people who were born poor and wantedto do better than their parents. You could graduate from high school atthe top or your class, the bottom of your class, or not at all; if youshowed up smart, eager, and ready to work, you could earn a wage thatwould let you support a family. That way out is ending. The median wage for workers with nocollege is now close to the poverty line for a family of four. But thatdoesn’t really capture the problem. It’s not just that wages areshrinking; the jobs are vanishing. ... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:13:00 +0100 672655 http://infoblog.infopeople.org/2008/11/infopeople_at_cla_minidemos_an.php If good things really do come in small packages, attendees at the California Library Association 2008 Conference and Exhibition in San Jose are going to find plenty of treasures through the Infopeople Mini-Demo sessions which begin this evening and continue through Sunday afternoon (November 16, 2008). While many of us extol the virtues of learning sessions which include preparatory time and extensive follow-up, we also find a great deal of charm and useful information in these brief sessions which bring trainers and learners together for 10-minute tip-laden teasers that cover a variety of topics. It’s an enticing format for trainers and learners alike, and gives all of us food for thought in how we approach our own training-teaching-learning experiences. With more than four dozen time slots filled with mini-demos and more than two dozen presenters scheduled, there is something for nearly everyone working in libraries. Trainers will see plenty of examples of how to break their material into concise and effective sessions from Infopeople presenters including Linda Demmers, Beth Gallaway; Cheryl Gould; George Needham and Joan Frye Williams; and Mary Ross as well as State Librarian Susan Hildreth and Deputy State Librarian Stacey Aldrich. Learners, at the same time, will be able to pick and choose from a variety of topics including spontaneous programming; planning book clubs; using library mashups; what open source software can offer libraries; bringing creativity to the workplace; creating exciting and memorable user experiences with minimal expenditures; and strategic positions for libraries in today’s changing environment. Those of us used to much more in-depth presentations stand to learn a lot from these sessions, and the sessions promise to be fun as well. All events will be held in Infopeople’s space with the Exhibitors’ Area (Booths 410, 411, and 511). (Source: Infoblog) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:59:59 +0100 672619 http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~i312co/blog/?p=236 I’ve been involved in a few disturbing conversations the last couple of days. Fair Use has a vital role in copyright law- it allows the use of copyrighted material without permission for what are essentially societal benefits. Criticism, scholarship, teaching and research are specifically mentioned in the text of the law as examples of the kinds [...] (Source: copy this blog) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:46:35 +0100 673082 http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/social-media-makeover/ Yesterday I wrote a reply to a question about my blog - BUT my answer should have been more thorough! Jacinta, a post-graduate student, and learning about Web 2.0, wrote to ask me who the webmaster of this website is. I wrote a quick email reply, that was basic, therefore totally inadequate! The answers are easy. A blog is just that – something written by the blog owner. It is not a website that has a webmaster. So Heyjude is my blog, written by me. Same with all the blogs that are linked in my blogroll. That is what Web 2.0 is all about!! Anybody can do anything!! Yes, I am actually the webmaster of my own blog - using an online hosted platform called WordPress! Good for me! What I also should have explained is that WordPress can be deployed in a number of different ways for self hosting and multi-user platforms for blogging and website content management systems. Edublogs is an excellent example of a entrepreneurial deployment of WordPress in multiuser format by Australian guru James Farmer, who serves the education blogging community with his excellent services as well as creating an income stream for himself. We are lucky to have this service available to us all. But WordPress itself is a powerful product. I chose WordPress.com for this blog just because it is robust, secure, and because the support services and forum are excellent. There is no downtime, and none of the little glitches that we have experienced in our Edublogs blogs. But a fast growing trend is the adoption of WordPress for “CMS projects” where WordPress is being leveraged in building-out entire sites that are not necessarily blog-centric. I did that in a very small way for Judy’s Web 2.0 Notes, and Simply Books. So I am particularly chuffed that I did that, especially when I found out that Gordon Brown’s No.10 Downing Street website was re-launched using the WordPress platform. So while WordPress is primarily a blogging application, No. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:33:15 +0100 672991 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ouseful/~3/452852671/ In an article in the Guardian a couple of days ago - UK universities should take online lead, it was reported that “UK universities should push to become world leaders in online higher education”, with universities secretary, John Denham, “likely to call” for the development of a “global Open University in the UK”. (Can you imagine how well that call went down here?;-) Anyway, the article gave me a heads-up about the imminent publication of a set of reports to feed into a Debate on the Future of Higher Education being run out of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:47:41 +0100 673241 http://infoblog.infopeople.org/2008/11/infopeople_at_cla_john_ward_an.php John Ward, familiar to longtime Infoblog readers from previous postings about his work, wants to leave us with a vision. And if you’re in San Jose this weekend for Infopeople “Master Speaker” series events at the California Library Association 2008 Conference and Exhibition, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to share and help construct that vision. Ward, as a graphic facilitator, records meetings and other events—but not in a text-based way: “I won’t be interacting with the speaker or the audience. I’ll be listening hard, and whenever I hear anything important come down, I’ll find a few words and an image and get it up on the wall…It’s not a recording process, it’s a capturing process,” he explained. What Ward and other graphic facilitators capture are simple, memorable images and a few key words. Combining these simple elements, they produce a finished mural on paper as the event they are capturing ends; printed copies of those murals are made accessible to participants and serve to create a visual reminder of events which otherwise might quickly fade from memory. The process will be on display to conference attendees throughout the weekend. Ward himself will provide a brief explanation of how the process works in a session which begins on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. in the San Jose Conference Center, Ballroom A, and will invite attendees to join him in graphically recording what they are experiencing. The mural-in-progress will remain on display for more contributions, and additional murals will be created by Ward as he captures presentations by Daniel Pink Saturday afternoon and William Crossman Sunday afternoon. What attendees will be left with is a cohesive exercise is creatively combining words and imagery as they interact with Ward and two master speakers whose presentations themselves are meant to inspire us all to think beyond the constraints which we usually create for ourselves. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:40:16 +0100 672331 http://acrlog.org/2008/11/14/empowering-our-users-with-fair-use/ Editor’s Note: Working at an academic institution in Philadelphia had its advantages recently for providing proximity to a significant event - the formal release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. My colleague Kristina De Voe, Reference Librarian for English & Communications at Temple University, attended the event. Here she shares some observations and thoughts from the event, along with some useful links. Many thanks to Kristina for contributing this guest post. On November 11, 2008 I attended the release event for the much anticipated Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education, a succinct, easy-to-understand document outlining the concepts and techniques for interpreting the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fittingly taking place at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center and coordinated by The Center for Social Media, The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, and Temple University’s Media Education Lab, the event was attended by fair use stakeholders: educators, students, copyright lawyers, and librarians. An archived stream of the event is available, but as media literacy maven Renee Hobbs and other panelists spoke on the significance of the Code in terms of both teaching and student learning, I was struck by their sheer call to action. Here is a document that we as librarians can use as a teaching and learning tool with our faculty, our students, and one another. Whether helping faculty design amazing curricula or helping students with research projects, promoting a stronger culture of fair use within our institutions allows us to help empower our users in accessing and utilizing media rich resources – available from our libraries or elsewhere. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672434 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2137 So, where are we at? Yesterday and today were one of those Rubicon moments -- reminding me once again how librarians repeatedly throw themselves across the chasm that lies between the digital and paper shores; a kind of human bridge to bear the burden of our user's information needs. Digital tools are great, and add greatly to the strength or span of our bibliographic structures -- but in the end, it more often than not comes down to just how much the librarian in the breach knows about both worlds that makes the journey across either a success or abject failure. Let me be specific. Yesterday morning I finally met a person who was only an exchange of emails to me. He was searching for a digital copy of the Treaty of Vienna. I couldn't find it, so we agreed to walk into the paper world together and we met at the old fashioned reference desk. Reflecting on the insights of Thomas Mann's two articles about the essential connections between reference and cataloging -- it took me about 15 minutes to find a set of reference books that contained the original text of the treaty. It was really a matter of "generalizing" the LC subject headings and finding the one that referred to a collection of the treaty texts in five easy volumes. I know for us librarians this is a cake walk; but I am surprised how much the use and influence of the web and ubiquitous key word searching has wiped this once common research practice from our user community's collective experience. The other public service moment remains virtual as well and involved the grand jury report on the shooting of Fred Hampton. Using the web, he found a link to the report on the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, but he wasn't sure how to get a copy of the report through this mechanism. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:05:48 +0100 672174 http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/11/13/a-copyright-guide-for-educators/ School Library Journal - “Do you often question whether it’s OK to include portions of a book, film, or song in your classroom lesson? What about whether YouTube can be used as a teaching tool? Hopefully, librarians will have a clearer understanding of copyright law with the new guide The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education.” I’ve been meaning to write a post about the importance of librarians understanding and not breaching copyright.  This includes not downloading music (or anything for that matter) illegally via Livewire or BitTorrent. Sure, copyright law can be annoying, but it’s the law and librarians should NOT be breaking the law.  Especially copyright laws.  Does your iPod have illegal music on it? (Source: Library Stuff) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:56:43 +0100 672117 http://www.slaw.ca/2008/11/13/screencasting-triumph/ I attended an American Association of Law Libraries webinar on screencasting and podcasting this week. I heard about this session via Slaw and decided to attend to see if this tech would fit in nicely with our current Intranet offerings. Kerry Fitz-Gerald, Reference Librarian, Seattle University School of Law Library and Rita Kaiser, Reference Services Librarian, King County Law Library educated and inspired me. The session was just over an hour, and due to my longitunal location ran from 11 a.m. to 12ish. I was so inspired, I bought a headset with a mic at lunch, and proceeded to avoid the November budgeting process for my library by creating a my first ever screencast. The 3.5 minute video I made with with CamStudio shows our internal process for gathering a case from WestlaweCarswell and downloading it. The target audience are legal assistants who have just been issued passwords for WeC. My hope is that offering up this canned process will encourage users to look to our Intranet for those how-to bits in the moment when they need something. I plan to measure the statistics on views of the video to see if there is a diminishing rate of return on my 2 hour investment of creating it. With luck, the metrics will show that investing time and energy into creating screen casts in our environment is: viable - the technology piece does not create a bunch of calls to our helpdesk on using the video format efficient - the learning objective for training staff to download cases from a service they haven’t used before is met sustainable - we can overcome barriers to creating these pieces and offer other objects using this tech cost effective - using the free software piece and the support of our wonderful IT group gives us a professional product to deliver More info? An overview of screencasting from Wikipedia. Rita has posted a great bibliography for How to Train Without Showing Up. A video is available on using CamStudio. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:11:16 +0100 672703 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=5597 Technical and administrative work in planning, managing and implementing children's library services, including (but not limited to): --program and activity development and implementation. --collection development and maintenance. --school/library collaboration (both public and home-school education). --reference and reader advisory services provided to children, parents and teachers. --grant writing, as well as locating and submitting applications/requests for fundraising opportunities. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:03 +0100 672060 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/452013810/ Fascinating article in SLJ from David Loertscher: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6610496.html Last year, when I thought of revising my book Taxonomies of the School Library Media Program (Hi Willow, 2000), I realized that I had pushed the traditional model of school libraries about as far as it could go. We don’t need a revision. We need a reinvention. Experts say that the rank and file of any profession can’t re-create itself because it’s too enmeshed in the status quo. We’re more hopeful. What has to happen for school libraries to become relevant? If we want to connect with the latest generation of learners and teachers, we have to totally redesign the library from the vantage point of our users—our thinking has to do a 180-degree flip. In short, it’s time for school libraries to become a lot less like Microsoft and a lot more like Google. With this notion in mind, I collaborated with two of my colleagues, Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaan, Canadian educational consultants, to develop an idea we’re calling the school library learning commons. This is great! The learning commons taken to the school media center. Loertscher continues and offers some advice for “flipping:” (emphasis mine) Thinking differently—and creatively—is never easy. Here are some exercises to help you make a 180-degree switch. Resolve to think like a patron rather than a provider, a customer rather than a store owner. For example, right now your library is probably open throughout the school day. Imagine what it would mean to students and teachers if it were open 24/7, 365 days a year. Let’s say each student is currently allowed to check out two books. What if each child could check out an unlimited number of books or download digital or audiobooks to their Kindle or iTough device anytime they wished? In some schools, students only get credit for reading books in the Accelerated Reader program. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:33:28 +0100 672178 http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/whats-up-with-ebooks-interview-nagle-2008.mp3 Here’s the mp3 of an Advisorpress.com podcast I did with Peter Johnson on the subject “What’s Up with e-books?” This 55 minute discussion provides a good overview of the e-book world in November 2008. What is environmentally-friendly, endorsed by Oprah, distributed worldwide, can be read in the dark, empowers aspiring authors, could end textbook shortages, and gets 38 million hits on Google? E-books! And this month, on our Author Marketing Teleseminar, we have just the person to bring us up to date on this emerging form of publishing! Robert Nagle…will share his views on the current state of this emerging industry. According to Wikipedia, as of 2008, new marketing models for e-books are being developed, formats are beginning to homogenize, and dedicated reading hardware has been produced. E-books have achieved global distribution, and electronics manufacturers are releasing more e-book readers for general consumer use, such as Amazon’s Kindle model or Sony’s PRS-500. E-books have seen tremendous market growth in Japan throughout the 2000s and currently has an e-book market worth ¥10 billion. E-books may be reaching a tipping point. Just a few days ago, Oprah Winfrey gave an enthusiastic endorsement of Amazon’s Kindle E-book reader on her nationally-syndicated TV show, while major publishers are launching new titles as well as backlist titles in E-Book format. Apple’s extremely popular iPhone is also breeding a whole new generation of E-book users, with its gorgeous screen and wireless download capabilities. Robert Nagle is a Houston-based technical writer with a background in literature and teaching. He holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and writes pseudonymous fiction. Robert is TeleRead’s Web administrator and frequent contributor. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:18:04 +0100 672187 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/nov/13/beano-lord-snooty-comics Regular readers of The Beano will know that one of its traditional characters is no longer with us. Lord Snooty has passed on. I don't know how it happened, having stopped reading the great British comic when I was, oh, about 20 and only recently come back to it. Perhaps he choked on an extra-large plate of sausages and mash, or perhaps he was lynched by art lovers irate at his attempt to sell off the ancestral collection of Titians.Other classic characters still rule the Beano - Dennis the Menace is still cover king, the Bash Street Kids are still driving Teacher nuts. You can still read Billy Whizz, Roger the Dodger and Minnie the Minx. The free gifts are amazing and so menacing that different versions have to be sold at airports in case someone hijacks a flight with a Beano catapult. There is now a second comic, Beano MAX, if you also want games reviews etc. The traditional Beano was read by good little boys and girls fantasising about being menaces and minxes. Beano MAX looks like it's for actual delinquents.So what about poor old Lord Snooty? Ah well, the upper-class character has not simply been abolished. Aristocracy survives in The Beano in the person of Lord Snooty III, inheritor of the Snooty fortune and embodiment of modern wealth. That's right, The Beano is the home of acute social satire. Lord Snooty's world of toffs and hounds has of course long gone. So instead we have Lord Snooty the Third who terrorises his staff by riding his quad bike and driving a train through the house. He is modern, he is style-conscious, and he's still a bastard. In fact he treats underlings much worse than his feudal forebear ever did.Cartoonists looking for ammunition against David Cameron's Tory party might want to consult Lord Snooty the Third. Meanwhile The Beano goes on, a comic with so much character it proves Marvel and Manga never had all the best outrage. Keep menacing.DesignComicsguardian.co. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:33:48 +0100 672056 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/11/13/new-survey-on-diversity-and-recruitment-in-library-schools/ New survey on diversity and recruitment in library schools The American Library Association (ALA) is conducting a new online survey to examine strategies used by library schools to recruit students of color. Participation in the study is encouraged from those involved in ALA-accredited master’s programs and American Association of School Librarians (AASL) reviewed and approved master’s programs with specialty in school library media accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). This survey has been designed to assess strategies employed to recruit students of color, and efforts to foster an educational environment where respect, appreciation, equity and inclusion are core values. Feedback will be used to better understand the effective practices utilized by library schools to attract and retain a diverse student body and to inform ALA’s existing and future diversity recruitment initiatives. The survey will be electronically distributed to all ALA accredited and AASL approved/NCATE accredited master’s programs by Nov. 7, and replies are requested by Nov. 24. The survey can be accessed online at http://www.assessimpact.com/TAPALADiversityStudy/survey.cfm. Source: American Library Association (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:42:45 +0100 671979 http://www.infotogo.com/users/index.asp?RSS=31897 "Ten years after graduation, high-school students who had been rated as conscientious and cooperative by their teachers were earning more than classmates who had similar test scores but fewer soc... (Source: Info To Go: Navigating the Internet) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:10:00 +0100 671832 http://www.infotogo.com/users/index.asp?RSS=31922 "Art Education 2.0 is for art educators at all levels who are interested in using digital technologies to enhance and transform art teaching and learning experiences. The aim of Art Education 2.0... (Source: Info To Go: Navigating the Internet) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:06:00 +0100 671831 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/11/13/john-palfrey-born-digital-presentation.html Notes from John Palfrey’s talk for the MacArthur Foundation at Google Chicago point of the book Born Digital was to bust some of the myths and look at differences in behavior between digital natives and people like their grandparents shouldn’t treat everybody the same way just because they have the same technology - may not use it the same way how they define this specific group of kids (not all millennials) - born after 1980, access to the technology (only 1 billion people), skills to use it 5 characteristics 1. “I blog therefore I am” express their identity online and offline - they don’t distinguish between the two avatars as another version of identity one difference is “subscribe to *me*” 2. multitaskers a lot of debate over multitasking and what it is, but they’re doing multiple things at once example of game in which boys tried to maintain as many IM conversations with as many girls as they could at once 3. consumers to creators interact with digital format - seems self-evident, but presumption is immediate access because digital (eg, digital camera vs a disposable one); movie theater vs YouTube, print vs searchable text presumption of media in digital form and that it’s social and shared held a contest to design the logo for “Digital Natives” project at Harvard Law School - got 136 entries (32 from the kid who won), just for the glory (no prize) 4. mash up different media, putting different forms of media together comes down to a series of technologies - RSS, Google Docs, lightweight collaborative tools 5. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:17:13 +0100 671855 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/451984288/mike-carroll-at-bowling-green-state-u.html The Center For Teaching And Learning at Bowling Green State University has posted a video and blog notes on Michael Carroll's public talk from October 31, Copyright and Your Right to Use and Share Your Scholarly Materials.  From the blog notes: ...Copyright laws are the crux of the issue behind the scholarly communication movement and the pressing need for change. The first laws, enacted in the early 18th century, were intended to protect those who wanted to make money from their written works rather than those who wrote for impact, as researchers and scholars do. Currently, when an author signs over their copyright to the publisher, they become limited in their own access to the work as well as limit many others due to what Dr. Carroll calls “the pay wall.” Carroll asks that researchers and authors make responsible decisions regarding the publication of their works – to consider the effects of simply signing the first or “opening offer” a publisher extends.... Carroll listed several ways that OA is good for authors/researchers: increases impact (# of citations) due to easier access by researchers serendipitous researchers come across works more often, making previously unforeseen connections researchers need broader access to a myriad of sources/literature helps international and poorly financed researchers – access/cost medical researchers – providing out of date treatments due to lack of access to most recent findings current pay-for journals are not searchable because they are not linked (lots of information could be added to the general pool of accessible resources).... ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672162 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/451803602/old-fulton-ny-post-cards-is-more-than.html This blog post is long overdue...During the summer, I ventured to Fulton, NY to visit the public library and to talk to Tom Tryniski, who runs the site "Old Fulton NY Post Cards." First of all, the site isn't really about postcards. Yes, it started as a small postcard digitization program, but has grown to be so much more. When I saw him, Tryniski has digitized over 6.12 million old New York State historical newspaper pages and would soon be placing another 1.3 million pages online. That's more than 2.8 terabytes of content from 1837 to 2007. This has translated into the site being a popular destination for people who are doing research (more than 1.4 million hits in 30 days).When I first heard about Tom Tryniski earlier in the summer, I was amazed that I hadn't heard of the project sooner. When I met him, I understood why. This isn't a library doing a project or some other organization. This project is a labor of love by a former IT executive, who has the skills, technology and time to created a growing archive. At first, Tryniski digitized postcards that he had received and placed them online. When they got positive feedback, he digitized some other materials. Soon he stumbled upon content that was rich in information -- newspapers -- and began digitizing newspapers from microfilm. The amount of content he has digitized is amazing.Okay...so what about his "process"? Is he following recommended practices? As we talked, he told me about his equipment, etc., and - yes - his is following recommended practices. In talking about the equipment he uses, Tryniski says on the site, "Old Newspapers found on this site has have been Scanned by production grade Wicks and Wilson Microfilm scanners which in the authors opinion are the Finest available. " Yes, he backs up and backs up and backs up. (This is a former IT guy, remember. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672153 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2008/11/old-fulton-ny-post-cards-is-more-than.html This blog post is long overdue...During the summer, I ventured to Fulton, NY to visit the public library and to talk to Tom Tryniski, who runs the site "Old Fulton NY Post Cards." First of all, the site isn't really about postcards. Yes, it started as a small postcard digitization program, but has grown to be so much more. When I saw him, Tryniski has digitized over 6.12 million old New York State historical newspaper pages and would soon be placing another 1.3 million pages online. That's more than 2.8 terabytes of content from 1837 to 2007. This has translated into the site being a popular destination for people who are doing research (more than 1.4 million hits in 30 days).When I first heard about Tom Tryniski earlier in the summer, I was amazed that I hadn't heard of the project sooner. When I met him, I understood why. This isn't a library doing a project or some other organization. This project is a labor of love by a former IT executive, who has the skills, technology and time to created a growing archive. At first, Tryniski digitized postcards that he had received and placed them online. When they got positive feedback, he digitized some other materials. Soon he stumbled upon content that was rich in information -- newspapers -- and began digitizing newspapers from microfilm. The amount of content he has digitized is amazing.Okay...so what about his "process"? Is he following recommended practices? As we talked, he told me about his equipment, etc., and - yes - his is following recommended practices. In talking about the equipment he uses, Tryniski says on the site, "Old Newspapers found on this site has have been Scanned by production grade Wicks and Wilson Microfilm scanners which in the authors opinion are the Finest available. " Yes, he backs up and backs up and backs up. (This is a former IT guy, remember. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 671992 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=251455670&oldid=prev Antiquity ← Previous revision Revision as of 00:47, 13 November 2008 Line 21: Line 21: The first libraries were composed, for the most part, of unpublished [[document|record]]s, a particular type of library called [[archives]]. Archaeological findings from the ancient [[city-states]] of [[Sumer]] have revealed temple rooms full of [[clay tablet]]s in [[cuneiform script]]. These archives were made up almost completely of the records of commercial transactions or inventories, with only a few documents touching theological matters, historical records or legends. Things were much the same in the government and temple records on [[papyrus]] of [[Ancient Egypt]]. The first libraries were composed, for the most part, of unpublished [[document|record]]s, a particular type of library called [[archives]]. Archaeological findings from the ancient [[city-states]] of [[Sumer]] have revealed temple rooms full of [[clay tablet]]s in [[cuneiform script]]. These archives were made up almost completely of the records of commercial transactions or inventories, with only a few documents touching theological matters, historical records or legends. Things were much the same in the government and temple records on [[papyrus]] of [[Ancient Egypt]]. - The earliest discovered private archives were kept at [[Ugarit]]; besides correspondence and inventories, texts of myths may have been standardized practice-texts for teaching new scribes. There is also evidence of libraries at [[Nippur]] of about 1900 B.C. and those at [[Nineveh]] of about 700 B.C. as showing a [[library classification]] system.<ref>''The American International Encyclopedia'', J.J. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:47:18 +0100 671771 http://pintini.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/11/12/information-literacy-12-11-08.html - Giglia, E. (2007) PubMed at its best. Useful skills to perform an effective search, save it and automatically receive updates . Europa Medicophyisica 43(3):pp. 427-437.(déposé sur E-LIS, 23/10/08)- Teens and Their Technologies in High School and College: Implications for Teaching and Learning(source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 26/10/08 / sur abonnement)"This paper presents the findings of two surveys comparing the frequency and use of various digital and communication technologies by high school and college students. Differences between populations, implications for teaching, and questions for further study are explored. Results suggest high school teens may bring facility with newer technologies to college."- Communications in Information LiteracyLe dernier n° (vol. 2, n° 1, 2008) est en ligne.- Social Media and Education: The Conflict Between Technology and Institutional Education, and the Future (source: Educause, 29/10/08)- Tomorrow's Students, Today's K–12 Digital Learners: Are You Ready for Them? (source: Educause, 30/10/08)"Since 2003, the Speak Up National Research Project has collected authentic feedback about technology and education from over 1.1 million K–12 students. Learn about the expectations of today's digital learners for 21st-century learning environments, and how you can be prepared to address the technology needs of your future students."- Driving Substantive Teaching and Learning Improvement Using the Five Sloan-C Pillars of Quality (source: Educause, 31/10/08)"Instructional technology solutions can help educational institutions achieve substantive teaching and learning improvement if they are theoretically grounded, focused on achieving clear goals (using one or more of the five Sloan-C pillars of quality), designed to accomplish those goals, and evaluated based on their attainment of those goals."- A Guide to free ebooks(source: Springfield Township High School) (Source: pintiniblog) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:24:14 +0100 672024 http://pintini.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/11/12/enseignement-superieur-12-11-08.html - Educause Review Magazine (vol. 49, n° 6, nov.-déc. 08)- What’s Next? Report on the Forum on the Future of Higher Education in Canada (source: Canadian Policy Research Networks)- Sustainable Faculty Technology Development to Facilitate a New University Culture(source: Educause, 30/10/08)"The Faculty Technology Integration Institute is the result of an interdepartmental collaboration to provide meaningful faculty development opportunities and sustainable innovation. This presentation will provide the results of case study research on the impact of this program on campus-wide change efforts at the University of South Florida Lakeland campus."- Driving Substantive Teaching and Learning Improvement Using the Five Sloan-C Pillars of Quality (source: Educause, 31/10/08)"Instructional technology solutions can help educational institutions achieve substantive teaching and learning improvement if they are theoretically grounded, focused on achieving clear goals (using one or more of the five Sloan-C pillars of quality), designed to accomplish those goals, and evaluated based on their attainment of those goals."- Should university presses adopt an OA model for all of their scholarly books?(source: The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 31/10/08 / via OAN)- Enseignants chercheurs : projet de décret (France)(source: affordance.info, 09/11/08)- Dalbello, Marija (2008) A Program for the Humanities: Panel Position Statement for Mapping Work in the Humanities (déposé sur dLIST, 09/11/08)"This position paper presents and argument for "A Humanities Program," as a contribution to the mapping work for the arts and humanities in information science, prepared for the “Mapping Work in the Arts and Humanities: A Participatory Panel Discussion” at ASIS&T 2008, organized by SIG-AH. Panelists: Kristin Eschenfelder (moderator and chair). ... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:23:13 +0100 672025 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6614191.html?rssid=190 Do you often question whether it’s OK to include portions of a book, film, or song in your classroom lesson? What about whether YouTube can be used as a teaching tool? Hopefully, librarians will have a clearer understanding of copyright law with the new guide The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. (Source: School Library Journal Breaking News) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:00 +0100 672283 http://www.dowling.edu/library/new/fisherkurt.mp3 Dr. Kurt Fisher began teaching at Dowling in the fall of 1968 just as the College assumed its new identity. Drawn from an oral history interview, these segments recount how Dr. Fisher found his way from the Bronx to the south shore of Long Island. He also relates some of the challenges of teaching physics and how he met his future wife, visual arts instructor Sarah Chin. All part of Born in the Sixties, a year-long look at the first year of Dowling College in 1968-69, available at http://dowling1968.wordpress.com (Source: Dowling College Library Podcasts) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:00 +0100 671869 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=570 The Boston College Libraries seek a Head of Continuing and Electronic Resources. This position is responsible for providing leadership and oversight to a self-motivated department which includes two professional librarians and seven support staff positions. The Head is expected to foster a collaborative environment, actively promote staff development, and establish standards for the acquisition, cataloging and processing of continuing resources in all formats. The Head ensures that staffing is appropriately deployed to provide reliable management of the electronic resources which are critical to the research and teaching of the University. This position reports to the AUL for Collection Services, and works collaboratively with the other Collection Services Heads: Collection Development; Monographic Services; Metadata Services; Preservation. The Head of C&ER also works very closely with the Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian and the Digital Resources Reference Librarian to ensure effective management and licensing of electronic resources. Deadline: Resumes will be accepted until December 15, 2008. job posted on college website (Source: NASIG Jobs) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:10:55 +0100 672242 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2008/11/jisc-study-on-digital-preservation.html In case you haven't seen this announcement in email:The JISC are pleased to announce the publication of a study on Digital Preservation Policies which can be downloaded in PDF format from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/jiscpolicyfinalreport.aspxA major business driver in all universities and colleges over the past decade has been harnessing digital content and electronic services and the undoubted benefits in terms of flexibility and increased productivity they can bring. The priority in recent years has been on developing e-strategies and infrastructure to underpin electronic access and services and to deliver those benefits. However any long-term access and future benefit may be heavily dependent on digital preservation strategies being in place and underpinned by relevant policy and procedures. This should now be an increasing area of focus in our institutions.This JISC funded study completed by Charles Beagrie Ltd aims to provide an outline model for digital preservation policies and to analyse the role that digital preservation can play in supporting and delivering key strategies for Higher and Further Education Institutions. Although focussing on the UK Higher and Further Education sectors, the study draws widely on policy and implementations from other sectors and countries and will be of interest to those wishing to develop policy and justify investment in digital preservation within a wide range of institutions.Two tools have been created in this study:1) a model/framework for digital preservation policy and implementation clauses based on examination of existing digital preservation policies;2) a series of mappings of digital preservation to other key institutional strategies in UK universities and colleges including Research, Teaching and Learning, Information, Libraries, and Records Management. ... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:30:00 +0100 671493 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2008/11/guardianelearning.aspx An article in today's Guardian (12 November 2008) claims that ministers will tomorrow state that UK universities should push to become world leaders in online higher education.  John Denham, Secretary of State for higher education at the Department for Innovation, Universities and S