Posted on April 22, 2009 by rhondagonzales
But when you sit down with an old-fashioned book in your hand, the medium works naturally against such distractions; it compels you to follow the thread, to stay engaged with a single narrative or argument.
via How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write – WSJ.com.
I understand that the printing press revolutionized the [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by rhondagonzales
As we plan to vacate our building, we were hoping to find each of the liaison librarians an office in the departments they work with. However, space is so tight on our campus that we were only able to achieve this goal with one librarian.
This post at ACRLog provides insight from librarians around the country [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2008 by rhondagonzales
As we contemplate our upcoming relocation and remodel, we are attempting to find spaces around campus for our faculty and staff. One obvious solution has been that the subject liaisons could have offices in the building where their faculty and student constituents are located. I was interested to read this post on the ACRLog about [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2007 by rhondagonzales
For those of you that attended Brian Rosenblum’s presentation on Libraries as Publishers at last week’s CALC Summit, you might be interested to know that your colleagues in Europe got to enjoy his presentation as well!
Patrick Danowski, a librarian from Berlin, posted a comment to his blog, Bibliothek 2.0 und mehr (Library 2.0 and more) [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2007 by rhondagonzales
Here’s a new white paper published by Educause that is right on the money in describing students’ habits and attitudes and the need for information literacy. I haven’t had time to read the entire paper yet, but just the quote below looks highly promising. Thanks Diana Oblinger! Sorry you couldn’t make it to our CALC [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2007 by rhondagonzales
This is the video of the week! Everyone is talking about this video, which was created by Professor Michael Wesch and his class of Digital Ethnography students at Kansas State University.
Some of the important statements he makes in this video are:
XML allows us to separate content from form. This is important [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2007 by rhondagonzales
I read about this on Laura Cohen’s blog, Library 2.0 – An Academic’s Perspective. http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2007/01/blogs_for_current_events.html.
What a great idea!!! The Institute for the Future of the Book has created this blog version of the Iraq Study Group Report. Reviewers are contributors to the blog and can add their comments to each section of the report. [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2007 by rhondagonzales
The second annual National Freshmen Attitudes report, linked below, reports that, “Only half of entering students enjoy reading and bring strong study habits. Although their desire to attend college was strong, only about half of respondents indicated enthusiasm for reading and appeared to have strong study habits, as shown below.”
07FRESHMANATTITUDES_report.pdf (application/pdf Object)
I am [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2006 by rhondagonzales
This article by Tyler O. Walters of Georgia Institute of Technology appears in the October D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/). I wanted to share it with our faculty and staff because it discusses an important shift in scholarly communication. Scholarly dialogue no longer takes place only in formal publications; the academy is beginning to recognize that important [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2006 by rhondagonzales
Exactly my point! http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/2006/10/on-google-purchase-of-youtube.html
From the TravelinLibrarian.info
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