ACRL-Oregon is very pleased to announce its sponsorship of the first in a series of ACRL National E-learning workshops to meet the continuing education needs of librarians statewide. The first workshop of the 2010 series will be: Marketing Ideas That Work in Academic Libraries: Pecha Kucha Presentations This webcast, offered by ACRL’s Marketing Academic and […]
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 […]
Like many of you, we had to scramble this past year to deal with the change in the statewide database license, and ended up maintaining our Ebscohost subscription alongside the new Gale subscription, at dramatically increased cost. We have been reviewing use and usability of the two platforms this year to inform budgeting for the […]
Want to know about continuing education opportunities (workshops, lectures, conferences, training sessions) in our region? Northwest Central is a great resource that has a fairly comprehensive event listing. It’s been in development over the past five years and has only become easier to use. You can look at events chronolgically or by topic. It’s also a clearinghouse […]
As your terms are starting out, take a look at the Cooperative Library Instruction Project’s website (http://clip-il.wetpaint.com/). CLIP is creating information literacy tutorials that are not university specific and can be used by instructors and librarians anywhere. Currently we have tutorials on topics such as “Incorporating Sources into your Research Paper,” “Generating Search Terms,” APA […]
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