Monthly Archives: April 2008

Things Students Should Think About

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
I come out of semi-seclusion to tell you that my co-worker just blogged an absolutely wonderful list of things students should think about as they approach research. Like Unlike
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Snow

By Iris | Published: Saturday, April 26th, 2008
It snowed here last night. I don’t have much to say about that. I feel betrayed. Like Unlike
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Theory Feeds My Soul

By Iris | Published: Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I’m sitting here hunting for articles in hopes of creating a little literature review for myself on a topic I’ll be presenting on next week, and I’m cursing the practicality of my profession. Everyone’s writing “how to help students avoid plagiarism by teaching the proper mechanics” articles. But what I need is “why are the [...]
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Modes of Communication

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Yesterday reference and instruction librarians from the five Oberlin Group libraries in Minnesota. I always love these meetings. They’re a chance to reconnect with our colleagues at other libraries, to think together about issues that will shape our futures, and to take large issues and examine how they map onto our particular experiences. This time [...]
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Transparent or Opaque?

By Iris | Published: Monday, April 21st, 2008
Allow me to take a moment to rant a little. There are some common metaphors that are slowly but surely losing their meaning as people get them mixed up or use them to describe an ever broadening set of nouns. These metaphors are transparency and opacity. They are most often used to refer to processes [...]
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