Category Archives: services

Is “Traditional Reference” Dead?

By Iris | Published: Monday, January 28th, 2008
I’ve been mulling over this question for the last couple of years, but I returned to it after reading these conference notes posted at A Wandering Eyre. (I know, I know, that was months ago. But I’ve been mulling, remember?) In particular, there were a couple of lines in those notes where “Jane” paraphrased Joe [...]
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Let the Pilot Begin!

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
I spent a good portion of today working out the logistics of a new pilot program we’re trying. I’m so excited to see if it works, it’s not even funny! But first, the background. Our writing center contacts professors who will be teaching WR (“writing rich”) courses across the curriculum to see if these professors [...]
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Maybe the Easiest Virtual Reference Set-Up Ever

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
I’ve been playing with Meebo Rooms today in between student appointments and crazy-hard research questions. For the two or three of you that haven’t heard of these things, they’re a brand new feature of Meebo and you can read more about them on the Meebo blog. Basically, it’s a free and easy chat room where [...]
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Possibly Impossible Idea

By Iris | Published: Friday, January 19th, 2007
Walking in to work this morning, musing on staffing and service models for liaison librarians and fumbling for my keys with mitten-encased hands, I decided that our liaison model is doing just about precisely half of what it could do (time, money, and staffing aside). Currently, there is a liaison for each major on campus. [...]
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Gould Goes Multi-Media

By Iris | Published: Thursday, December 28th, 2006
At the very beginning of Fall term here at Carleton, two other librarians and I recorded our first podcast: an audio tour of the library. But then the term hit with such force that we didn’t have time to figure out the technicalities of putting it up on the library’s web site. Turns out, we [...]
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