Do you work with scholarly publishing? Have you been following the Obama administration’s Open Government plan? Do you know much about the NIH Public Access Policy? Do you work with faculty members at your institution who receive federal funding? Read on to learn more about something exciting that’s happening right now. As a bit of [...]
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ACRL e-Learning Scholarships ACRL is pleased to announce our new e-Learning scholarship program. ACRL is funding twenty e-Learning webcast scholarships in order to help librarians, library school students, and staff maximize their professional development dollars during these challenging economic times. Purpose To provide opportunities for librarians, library school students or support staff to update their [...]
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Designing Usable and Accessible Web Pages: Needs Analysis, Design Planning, XHTML and CSS Standards, Accessibility Validation, and Usability Testing (beginners) http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/courses/webdesign.cfm An ACRL Online Seminar January 25 - February 10, 2010 Course Description: This hands-on course focuses on the basics of Web site planning, design and content development. The course will also examine Web standards, usability, [...]
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Does your library do anything special for students when they are in final exam week mode? Do you provide refreshments (Seattle U provided coffee and cookies)? Activites? If yes, what has worked best or been most appreciated? This semester we put out two library study break puzzles (puzzle 1, puzzle 2) as a mental break [...]
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Good news for everyone all around, Congress passed funding for LSTA. The funding is slightly increased from last year. Read more details over at the ALA Washington Office’s District Dispatch post. And for good measure, check out the Oregon State Library’s list of funded programs for 2009. Since the federal funding passed, that means we [...]
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Alliance Research Interest Group Research Methods Workshop Friday, February 19, 2010 | 10:00am – 2:00pm Workshop Location OHSU West Campus – Wilson Conference Center Room 407 20000 NW Walker Rd, Beaverton, OR 97006 Purpose of workshop To familiarize academic librarians with reasons for doing quantitative or qualitative research, with a focus on stepping through an [...]
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$213.5 million earmarked for Library Services and Technology Act passed the House of Representatives today in the form of an omnibus bill. Read the ALA District Dispatch article for a breakdown of what this means. It is projected that the Senate will move forward with regards to this bill by early next week.
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Yesterday President Obama announced an Open Government Directive (pdf). The 4 steps agencies are mandated to take are as follows: Publish Government Information Online Improve the Quality of Government Information Create and Institutionalize a Culture of Open Government Create an Enabling Policy Framework for Open Government This means that we will soon we’ll be helping [...]
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The Alliance Research Interest Group (RIG) was formed to support continuing education in research methodologies and statistics for academic librarians, provide a platform for cross-institutional research projects, and encourage publication or otherwise make results available to advance the field of academic librarianship. When: Friday, December 11 — 10 a.m.-12 noon Where: White Stag Building – [...]
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Michael Bowman, Cristine Paschild, and Kimberly Willson-St. Clair, Portland State Library, authored “How the Dark Horse Came In: Portland State University Library Acquires Dark Horse Comics Archives” published in College & Research Libraries News, 70(10)
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