Category Archives: libraries and librarians

Negotiating Intersecting Worlds

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
The librarians here at Carleton (and I’m sure at many other institutions) live right on the border between the world of faculty and students and the world of the other staff on campus. Especially here, where librarians are not faculty but tag along to many faculty functions, and where class schedules are not paced to [...]
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New Research Guides Went Live!

By Iris | Published: Monday, September 14th, 2009
This is probably only really exciting for me, but I’m SO EXCITED, so I thought I’d share. Those libguides we were working on over the last few months? Well, they went live today with the start of classes. I give you … [insert drum roll here] … Gould Guides! Now, as with any transition, some [...]
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EndNote Style for MLA 7th Edition

By Iris | Published: Saturday, August 29th, 2009
I waited through the summer hoping that an EndNote output style for the new MLA style would become available for download from EndNote. I waited a couple of weeks past the date when I actually wanted to install it on campus. And then I waited a couple more weeks. And then I set to work [...]
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Mini-Immersion: A Shameless “How We Done Good” Post

By Iris | Published: Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Well, last night ended up being un-fun and not very restful, and today started out with a low-grade fever (now gone, so things are looking up). So while I’m confining myself to laziness for the rest of the day, I thought I’d lay out this Mini-Immersion idea in its more logistical details. The Two-Fold Inspiration Many [...]
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Dragging a Stick and Other Obsurdities in Research

By Iris | Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
With Fall Term looming, my colleagues and I have been thinking more and more intentionally about where our students are, where we want them to be, and how to move them closer to that second point. To kick of “Aaah, the students will be here soon” season, my colleagues and I from the 5 liberal [...]
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