ACRL-Oregon is very pleased to announce its sponsorship of the second in a series of ACRL National E-learning workshops to meet the continuing education needs of librarians statewide. The second workshop of the 2010 series will be: Check In with Location Based Mobile Services: Foursquare and Libraries People everywhere are “checking in” using Foursquare and [...]
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**FYI! Robin Paynter, ACRL-Oregon Communications Coordinator —————————————————————– Introducing a pilot service: WorldCat Mobile * Search for library materials—Enter search terms such as keywords, author or title * Find a WorldCat library near you—Enter your ZIP, postal code or location in the Libraries Locator * Call a library—Highlight and click the phone number in a library [...]
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In celebration of National Library Week at NCU we requested photos from interested faculty and staff to create READ posters, using software purchased from ALA a couple years ago. We ended up with a total of 10 submissions (which is pretty good for our small institution), all very creative and fun. Students are asked to [...]
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During the annual Reed Arts Week this year, Reed Digital Assets Librarian, Joanna Burgess, created a fun and evocative participatory installation in the library. Using old book pockets and cards, Joanna created a beautiful blank slate and encouraged students to fill it with haiku. And fill it with haiku — and haiku-like missives — they [...]
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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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Our annual Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot began Nov 18th in the Northwest Christian University library. Staff and student workers create construction paper turkeys (and they get very creative) and tape them to the window behind the circulation desk. Turkey feet are taped to the floor in front of the desk at specified intervals. Anyone coming in [...]
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Continuing Ed and Resources from NW Central
