Just a little over one week remains to submit an application for PNLA Leads, PNLA’s premier Leadership Institute! Are you an emerging leader serving in any capacity in a library in the Pacific Northwest? Do you have a desire to network with other leaders and increase your skills in areas of leadership and management to [...]
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ACRL 2011 National Conference March 30th-April 2nd 2011, Philadelphia, PA Call for Proposals: Contributed Papers Proposal deadline: Monday, May 10th The Call for Conference Participation, featuring descriptions of Conference Tracks, Session Formats, Proposal Requirements, and the Online Proposal Submission Form can be found here: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/national/2011/program/index.cfm Contributed Paper Session Format Details The Contributed Papers Committee invites [...]
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Do you have an interesting Web site that you want to share with the library world? Reviewers for the “Internet Reviews” column in College & Research Libraries News are needed. Reviews need to be approximately 380 words. If interested, contact Joni Roberts (jroberts@willamette.edu) or Carol Drost (cdrost@willamette.edu) and please include your subject interests with your [...]
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Joan Petit wrote a short article for LIScareer.com “Working Overseas in a School or University Library” (April 2010).
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Joan Petit (PSU) presented on “Blogging at the American University in Cairo,” part of the session Virtual Learning & Training: From Classrooms to Communities, with Meredith Farkas, at Computers in Libraries, Arlington, Virginia, April 13, 2010.
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To follow up on the post I made earlier this week, ACTA’s (Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement) text was released yesterday. There’s already a lot of commentary out there on the web. Consensus seems to be that not much has changed. For a good portal to find some of the interesting comments, you might use Michael Geist’s [...]
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Big news for our library: MHCC president John Sygielski (known as Ski to all!) recently named Jeff Ring as our new Library Director! Jeff has been PCC’s manager of library technology and collection management, but starting this May he’ll be headed out to MHCC. Whoohoo! We’re all looking forward to Jeff’s first day!
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The growth in e-books in library collections has been both boon and frustration for many patrons, since electronic items are typically excluded from interlibrary loan sharing. University of Oregon and Oregon State University recently began a new sharing partnership that extends to e-books. Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence is the first e-book title OSU has loaned, [...]
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Robert Schroeder and Ellysa Stern Cahoy. “Valuing Information Literacy: Affective Learning and the ACRL Standards” portal: Libraries and the Academy, 10, 127 -146. Abstract: Higher education information literacy standards have readily addressed cognitive skills, although affective competencies—the emotional abilities that students must acquire in order to successfully navigate the research process—have not yet been incorporated [...]
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