Since there has been some recent blog discussion and coverage of Carnegie Mellon’s Library Arcade by the LibrarianinBlack and other blogs here and here. I want to share some of my discussions with Daniel Hood, one of the librarians who worked on Carnegie Mellon University’s library game. Donna Beck and Rachel Callison were two of [...]

I’m a big fan of EDUCAUSE publications. From the regular magazines such as EDUCAUSE Quarterly and EDUCAUSE Review, to the many white papers, and the Seven Things You Need to Know series, I think EDUCAUSE has radically raised the bar for what an association can accomplish with its publications. I’m sure ACRL pays attention to [...]

Resolution #5. Handle NoiseObviously a pet peeve of librarians, probably since Egyptian times, and exasperated by cell phone usage in the last decade.Please don’t get me wrong. Noise itself is not always ignorant. Sometimes it happens and shows a place is alive, celebrating new knowledge or camaraderie. Socializing can be important and well justified when [...]

The January issue of College & Research Libraries has a nice article up by Paul Waelchli. It is titled Librarians’ sport of choice: Teaching information literacy through fantasy football. This is a great article and my congratulations to Paul for connecting these two important concepts (football and information literacy) so well. (And as an aside, [...]

A nice tip from Greg Sheaf on the lis-infoliteracy discussion list for saving search histories (useful if you want students to present evidence of their searches, and/or analyse what they have done) Apparently if you use the Firefox browser the history is saved in a file called history.dat, which is stored in a “profiles” folder. [...]

I’m a big fan of EDUCAUSE publications. From the regular magazines such as EDUCAUSE Quarterly and EDUCAUSE Review, to the many white papers, and the Seven Things You Need to Know series, I think EDUCAUSE has radically raised the bar for what an association can accomplish with its publications. I’m sure ACRL pays attention to [...]

I will be giving a talk My Second Life after the AGM of the Commercial, Legal & Scientific Information Group of CILIP next Tuesday 29th January 2008 at 6.30pm. I will be giving an overview of Second Life, the virtual world, and go on to give a personal perspective on its uses for education, business [...]

Tony McSean äußert sich in medlib-l kritisch über einen neuen UK Report über die Verhaltensmuster der “Google Generation”, sponsored von der British Library und dem Joint Information Systems Committe (Fettdruck durch mich):… it is not just-in-time, definitely not just-in-case. In the eternal student way it is just-enough. So long as students can get what they [...]

- L’invention des savoirs documentaires : les activités de recherche d’information d’usagers dits “novices””Cette recherche rend compte des grands courants de description de l’activité de Recherche d’Information (RI), pour souligner rapidement leurs cohérences, leurs divergences et leurs lacunes. La référence systématique aux activités expertes dans ces études sur l’activité de RI est spécialement analysée, pour [...]

The irony of it all: schools and educrats have been focusing on exams and test scores. What do the employers want the most? Graduates who can actually perform in the workplace. In other words, it’s not just about a test score. It’s about whether you can do what you claim you can do. That is [...]