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Teaching Print Journals
I’m pretty excited that our current periodicals are moving to join their bound brethren. The current print periodicals (which no longer actually reflect our current periodical holdings, now that by far the majority of our current issues are online) were housed in a huge, beautiful room on long white shelves, and they were shelved alphabetically [...]
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That’ll be Different
Tomorrow and the next day, I’m attending a conference. A virtual conference. A virtual conference in a Second Life environment. I’ve heard of having newbie orientation to large conferences (ALA and ACRL do this, for example), but I’ve never attended those. I did, however, attend the newbie orientation session for this conference and learned such [...]
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The Crazy Thing about Linguistic Research
Just when you think you have something nailed down, turns out you were holding a cherry tomato and the nail just made the whole thing explode. I’m constantly figuring out how to be a better librarian to the disciplines I serve. I have pretty deep knowledge of the ways of literary research, since that was [...]
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What is Information Literacy Anyway?
Tomorrow I’m supposed to stand up in front of a group of faculty, all of whom are considering teaching one of the college’s new curriculum-wide freshman seminars next year, all of which must include some explicit practice developing information literacy. My task: explain information literacy to them in 10 easy minutes so that they can [...]
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On Not Attending Conferences