This looks to be a very interesting event. As liaison librarians like me continue to learn about faculty and student perspectives on the value and potential of digital repositories, I’m especially interested to see “How is undergraduate-level work evaluated for worldwide distribution through a campus repository?” and “How can repositories compete with all the other Web services such as YouTube, Zotero Commons, and more?” among questions that meeting papers might explore.
July 14, 2008
Western Waters Digital Library: John Muir Papers Added
Colorado State University is a collaborative partner in the Western Waters Digital Library. An exciting announcement today that the John Muir Papers from the University of the Pacific Holt-Atherton Special Collections have been added to the library.
July 14, 2008
Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors
New from ACRL, this library instruction pedagogy title announced on ACRLinsider.
July 2, 2008
Creating Change: Teacher Librarians and New Learners
Christopher Hollister and the ACRL Instruction Section (IS) Conference Program Planning Committee organized a great IS program for ALA Annual, presented by Dr. Jeffrey Liles and entitled ”Creating Change: Teacher Librarians and New Learners” (ppt and select resources list). Leads to follow: Eric Jensen’s Brain-based learning: The new paradigm of teaching (forthcoming; see Brain-based learning) and George Siemens’ Connectivism: A learning theory for the new digital age.
July 1, 2008
Dan Ariely
I closed my time at ALA with Dan Ariely’s very interesting and entertaining presentation for the ACRL President’s Program. I’m looking forward to reading beyond his Predictably irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions.
