Neuroscience
I've started blogging occasionally over at the ACRL blog. My first post is called Why Do I Teach (Dialog) in LIS? If you've learned Dialog in the course of your library school education, take a gander at the post & let me know your thoughts. Turns out to be a very polarizing question!
There are some interesting notes in the blog's Comments section, and Wayne Bivens-Tatum's post over at Academic Librarian are interesting as well.
So, come on and join the dialog!
- Working With Faculty On Instruction Assignments
Two of my former students have pointed me to an interesting blog piece called "Stepping on Toes: The Delicate Art of Talking to Faculty about Questionable Assignments" by Ellie Collier. Collier talks about faculty aversion to "online" resources -- and...
- More Library Instruction Or Better Database Interfaces?
My librarian friend Emily Alling recently posted a question on Facebook asking if you were the head of a reference department: which should / would get more priority, more instruction on how to use library resources, or better interfaces for those resources?...
- Helping Scholars Find Material (rant)
John Dupuis, who writes the blog Confessions of a Science Librarian refers us to an interesting series of posts called "Finding Scientific Papers for Free." Written by biologist Sandra Porter on her blog Discovering Biology in a Digital World, they are...
- Addendum To Thoughts About Reference
My thoughts on this topic are evolving, and there are so many related blog posts about it, that I've created a separate post for my links & additional thoughts on The Future of Reference. In no particular order: * From the 2007 Massachusetts Library...
- Rebooting The Blog
The curse of only occasionally writing a blog is that when other things intrude (like real work) the blog tends to suffer. A bunch of work plus finishing reading Heft lead to this hiatus (once Heft's covered Gibson, he moves onto Roger Barker and...
Neuroscience
Why I Teach Dialog in LIS
I've started blogging occasionally over at the ACRL blog. My first post is called Why Do I Teach (Dialog) in LIS? If you've learned Dialog in the course of your library school education, take a gander at the post & let me know your thoughts. Turns out to be a very polarizing question!
There are some interesting notes in the blog's Comments section, and Wayne Bivens-Tatum's post over at Academic Librarian are interesting as well.
So, come on and join the dialog!
- Working With Faculty On Instruction Assignments
Two of my former students have pointed me to an interesting blog piece called "Stepping on Toes: The Delicate Art of Talking to Faculty about Questionable Assignments" by Ellie Collier. Collier talks about faculty aversion to "online" resources -- and...
- More Library Instruction Or Better Database Interfaces?
My librarian friend Emily Alling recently posted a question on Facebook asking if you were the head of a reference department: which should / would get more priority, more instruction on how to use library resources, or better interfaces for those resources?...
- Helping Scholars Find Material (rant)
John Dupuis, who writes the blog Confessions of a Science Librarian refers us to an interesting series of posts called "Finding Scientific Papers for Free." Written by biologist Sandra Porter on her blog Discovering Biology in a Digital World, they are...
- Addendum To Thoughts About Reference
My thoughts on this topic are evolving, and there are so many related blog posts about it, that I've created a separate post for my links & additional thoughts on The Future of Reference. In no particular order: * From the 2007 Massachusetts Library...
- Rebooting The Blog
The curse of only occasionally writing a blog is that when other things intrude (like real work) the blog tends to suffer. A bunch of work plus finishing reading Heft lead to this hiatus (once Heft's covered Gibson, he moves onto Roger Barker and...