Editor’s Note: ACRLog is hosting a team of ALA Emerging Leaders. Each month one of our Emerging Leaders will contribute a guest post, and each will focus on some aspect of gearing up for the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. This month the series takes on a slightly different topic than the Annual Conference. [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 14th, 2010 under Just Thinking.
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Sometimes things I’m reading via RSS feeds evaporate as soon as I’ve read them. Others linger a while, and sometimes they strike up conversations with each other.
Not long ago, a columnist at AAC&U’s Leap project blog, liberal.eduation nation, complained about the increasing crowd of literacies clamoring for our attention and suggesting that apart from [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on September 22nd, 2009 under Information Literacy.
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Librarians across all sectors of the profession have spent considerable time discussing and analyzing the impact of Web 2.0 and what it means to have a Web 2.0 influenced library. Here at ACRLog we first acknowledged Web 2.0 in December 2005. Since then we’ve offered a number of posts about academic libraries using 2.0 technologies [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 25th, 2009 under Technology Issues, Uncategorized.
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It’s been over a month, and the faculty blogosphere is still buzzing about Mark Taylor’s New York Times editorial “End the University as We Know It.” That’s not too surprising, since Taylor called for, among other changes, abolishing both departments and tenure. ACRLog blogger Scott Walter linked to the editorial here right after it was [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on June 11th, 2009 under Faculty, Higher Education.
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ACRL is down to its last few hours of activity. As usual it’s been a whirlwind experience. I finally did discover the link to the ACRL Conference blog. Take a look to read more about the conference and the presentations.
I can’t quite put my finger on it but the conference definitely has a different [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 15th, 2009 under Conference Blogging.
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