Archive for August, 2009
Balancing Act
I’m kind of in the pickle that Maura describes – subscribed to too many sources of information that I would read if I weren’t so busy keeping up with the stream of new information. But Current Cites is always a good ‘un for finding a cross-section of interesting new stuff and this week it pointed [...]
Posted: 29 August, 2009 in Commercialization, information industries, Open Access, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
Comments: 1
Damming the Information Streams
It’s incredible how fast the library gets busy again once the semester starts. This week started out quiet as I caught up on email after returning from vacation, but by the end I was spending my days attending several meetings and in the thick of scheduling classes. I generally prefer to be busier than not, [...]
Posted: 28 August, 2009 in Just Thinking, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: keeping up, library literature, time management
Comments: 6
The Real-Time Library
Librarians across all sectors of the profession have spent considerable time discussing and analyzing the impact of Web 2.0 and what it means to have a Web 2.0 influenced library. Here at ACRLog we first acknowledged Web 2.0 in December 2005. Since then we’ve offered a number of posts about academic libraries using 2.0 technologies [...]
Posted: 25 August, 2009 in Technology Issues, Uncategorized.
Tags: real-time_library
Comments: 8
Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
No, Everyone Really DOES Like to Search
I admit to, at one time, having had a slight problem with Roy Tennant’s statement from 2001 that “Only librarians like to search; everyone else likes to find”. Admittedly it is a cleverly stated and catchy phrase. It’s no surprise it caught on with any librarian giving a talk [...]
Posted: 21 August, 2009 in Just Thinking.
Tags: collegiality, librarian_blogs, sudden_thoughts
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There’s Something About Mary George
. . . that you should know. She’s just started blogging for Inside Higher Ed. Woo hoo! She has an almost Dickensian flair for description (“that murky blob marked library on your campus map . . . the Great Grimpen Mire of academe”), but she also has a purpose in mind. She wants to help [...]
Posted: 19 August, 2009 in Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning.
Comments: 1
