The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age
Posted by Celia Walter | 14 Aug, 2006Source: Berkman Center for Internet and Society,
Scholarly use of information: Graduate students' information seeking behavior
Posted by Celia Walter | 11 Aug, 2006By Carole George, Alice Bright, Terry Hurlbert, Erika C. Linke, Gloriana St. Clair, and Joan Stein
More below...
(More)The National Libraries of Europe
Posted by Celia Walter | 11 Aug, 2006Direct links to websites along with directory and contact info.
Permalink (Resourceshelf):
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/08/11/directories-national-libraries-of-europe/
(More)IFLA helps launch information network for African librarians
Posted by Celia Walter | 10 Aug, 2006Source: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
http://www.uneca.org/disd/events/2006/wsis-library/main.html
(More)CUFTS knowledgebase. Tools
Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Aug, 2006The CUFTS knowledgebase Tools
These link to the main CUFTS database at
http://cufts.lib.sfu.ca/tools.shtml
Resource ComparisonJournal Search
Role of Libraries in Promoting E-Learning: A Review of Singapore Initiatives
Posted by Celia Walter | 2 Aug, 2006Role of Libraries in Promoting E-Learning: A Review of
"Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries"/ by J. Maness
Posted by Celia Walter | 1 Aug, 2006Maness, J. (2006). "Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries". Webology, 3 (2), Article 25. Available at: http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n2/a25.html
Email: jack.maness@colorado.edu
(More)Conference Materials: Word of mouth marketing @ your library
Posted by Celia Walter | 31 Jul, 2006Source: American Library Association Public Information Office
http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/prforum/prforum.htm
" 'Word-of-mouth marketing @ your library' [Reg] from the experts -what it is, why it works and how it can be used to engage every staff member, trustee, Friend, faculty member and student in spreading the library message." Handouts, presentations, etc., from the PR Forum at the ALA Annual Conference,
The Myth about the Digital Divide
Posted by Celia Walter | 28 Jul, 2006The Myth about the Digital Divide/ by Brian L. Hawkins and Diana G. Oblinger
Note: We were glad to read that the authors also include Eszter Hargittai's discussion of the Second-Level Digital Divide, that focuses on various issues including onliner research skills. Important.
Source: July/August Issue of EDUCAUSE Review http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm064.asp
ACRL's The Power of Personal Persuasion Toolkit
Posted by Celia Walter | 27 Jul, 2006ACRL's The Power of Personal Persuasion Toolkit (PDF; 32 pages).
From the description:
Frontline librarians and library workers need the tools to develop their personal powers of persuasion to advance the agenda of the academic library. This publication provides basic content on persuasion, techniques for persuading others, applications of persuasion techniques for libraries and recommended processes and examples for persuading others within higher education environments.
JISC's Inform newsletter (JISC Inform 14, Summer 2006)
Posted by Celia Walter | 25 Jul, 2006The July, 2006 issue of JISC's Inform newsletter (JISC Inform 14, Summer 2006)
is now online. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_inform14
Articles include:
+ The future of the web
The experts tell us where the web is heading
+ Medical breakthrough
Newly digitised resources cause a stir
+ Providing 'a map of the world'
The e-Framework goes international
+ What is blended learning?
A lecturer looks beyond the jargon
+ Online overtures
The collection of record producer Brian Culverhouse goes online
Direct to the Culverhouse Collection
Blogs and the Reference service &
Posted by Celia Walter | 25 Jul, 2006Collaborative Reference Work in the Blogosphere
New research paper from Jeff Pomerantz at the
This article orginally appeared in Reference Services Review, 34(2), 200-212.
This paper explores the use of blogs as a platform for providing reference service, and discusses Lyceum, an open source software project from ibiblio.org, for this purpose. Design/methodology/approach - The following topics are explored: the evolution of libraries' uses of blogs, the advantages of conducting the reference transaction as a collaborative effort, and the use of blogs as an environment that fosters collaboration. The argument is made that blogs may be used to good effect in reference services Findings - It is argued that blogs may be used to good effect in reference services. Lyceum, an open source blogosphere application, is discussed as an environment for blog -based reference service. Originality/value - To date, blogs are not being used by a library reference services, and by few online reference service unaffiliated with libraries. This paper will be useful to libraries and other reference services interested in conducting the reference transaction as a community effort.
Direct to Full Text (16 pages; PDF)
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1267/01/Pomerantz-Preprint-RSR-2006.pdf