Archive for category Libraries and Community
Smartphones in the Library
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, a student at Arcadia University in Philadelphia who completing is her Masters with a focus in School Library Media Specialty.
Finding the right technology to use in the library, particularly the kind of devices that will best suit the largest number of patrons, can be an arduous task [...]
Posted: 12 November, 2011 in Libraries and Community, Technology Issues.
Tags: library website, QR codes, research resources, smartphones, web toolbar
Comments: 2
Social Hacking at the Library
I’m always interested to read about ideas that folks outside of librarianship have about libraries. The other day my partner forwarded me a tweet from tech publisher Tim O’Reilly:
Interesting note about an MIT professor who “hacked” (socially) the library as a way of recruiting interesting students http://bit.ly/k4qzrl
O’Reilly links to Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab blog to [...]
Posted: 22 June, 2011 in Information Ethics, Innovation, Libraries and Community.
Tags: databases, library catalogs, library resources, social media, social networking
Comments: -
Do Open Academic Libraries Need Academic Librarians
I started the day by doing a quick dive into an open course on education futures. Open courses are nothing new. MIT began offering them some time ago, and a number of institutions have followed suit. This one caught my attention because it was being offered by two education gurus in a totally independent setting. [...]
Posted: 10 June, 2010 in Libraries and Community, Worth Reading.
Tags: open_academic_library, open_movement
Comments: 3
The lure of the local (library association)
Americans are mobile by nature, and American academics are even more so. Simply to change jobs most of us would need to relocate to another city, if not another state. This mobility has been on my mind recently because this year, for the first time, I became significantly involved in my local library organization. It [...]
Posted: 1 May, 2008 in Libraries and Community.
Comments: 1
Where People Turn When They Need Information
The year 2008 may indeed turn out to be “The Year of Information Overload“, but most Americans may be too busy searching for information to notice. When faced with problems that require information to identify appropriate solutions the internet is the “go to” resource for Americans. According to a new survey, when faced with [...]
Posted: 31 December, 2007 in Libraries and Community, Student Issues.
Tags: information_search, library_use, pew_internet
Comments: 2
