MHCC librarian Anna Johnson and Sally Wright–a Program Specialist at MHCC–recently received an award for excellence from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. Anna and Sally were nominated by their colleagues in the Teaching & Learning Cooperative (now the Community of Learners’ Enterprise). Hooray to Anna and Sally for their commitment to professional […]
Elaine Gass Hirsch from Lewis and Clark College is seeking your ideas on possible future speakers for the annual Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service. This lecture is regularly attended by academic librarians throughout the region, and she would like to know who you might be interested in hearing and discussing ideas with during […]
FYI – Robin Paynter (Communications Coordinator) ======================================= Over the last two years ACRL’s Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee has been working to develop Cultural Competency Guidelines for Academic Libraries. These guidelines may be used by libraries to foster internal development as well as help articulate the library’s role in higher education in incorporating cultural competencies […]
Recently I have created a number of course specific research guides, e.g. Psychology 459/559: Infant Development, in which I inserted pre-formated subject searches in Portland State WorldCat to get students to relevant monographic content quickly (book links are at the bottom of the guide). Observation: pre-formatted searches can be set up so the result list […]
NewsBreaks for Monday, March 29, 2010 (from Infomation Today) Summary Judgment Motions Filed in Georgia State Copyright Infringement Lawsuit By George H. Pike The increasingly testy copyright infringement lawsuit between Cambridge University Press and other publishers and Georgia State University (GSU) over electronic course materials may be coming to a climax. Both sides have recently […]
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