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My College Advice? Learn How To Do Research
The New York Times recently asked 7 academics to offer advice to students entering college. If they had asked me, my advice would have been to learn how to do research, to practice it, and get really good at it.
Of course, as an academic librarian, I may be biased. But as someone [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on September 11th, 2009 under Books, Buildings, Information Literacy, Student Issues.
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Library As Place – For Air Conditioning Books
Here’s an interesting vision for the future of academic libraries from Adrian Sannier, Chief Technology Officer at Arizona State University. Sannier was the keynote speaker at the Campus Technology 2008 conference, and you can watch the video of his presentation, “A New American University for Next-Gen Learners” at the Campus Technology website. In his talk [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 19th, 2008 under Buildings, Higher Education, Technology Issues.
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And the Back of the Envelope, Please . . .
The winners of the Chronicle’s “back of the envelope” contest to design the Bush library are in. Some of the submissions were imaginative, others were satirical or angry. Some played off the resonances between the idea of a library and the Bush administration. One went beyond the confines of the envelope and attached a “signing [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on March 4th, 2008 under Buildings.
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Designs on the Presidency
Do you have an eye for design? Do you at least have a pencil and a used envelope? The Chronicle is running a contest and wants your ideas for the Bush Presidential Library. Send in your literally back-of-the-envelope sketches. Certain themes have already been overdone, but there’s plenty of room for more.
Let’s just say [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 22nd, 2008 under Buildings.
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The Academic Library Is Certainly No Place For Fun
Are there days at your academic library when it appears that a war is going to erupt between the students who just want solitude and quiet and those who want to do…well, whatever they feel like doing? And what they feel like doing just might be socializing (probably loudly), playing cards, using computers to watch [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 30th, 2007 under Administration/Leadership, Buildings.
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