Teaching & Instruction

Energizing warning for the conference attendees

Posted by on March 2, 2007 at 7:26 pm

Karen Schneider had an energizing notice for the contention attendees — for years now, libraries have given up ownership, control, as good as aptitude in inform management. We don’t own or set up the catalogs as good as subordinate — we franchise embarrassingly bad systems from dispassionate vendors. We don’t catalog the own understand (or [...]

The state of research skills

Posted by on March 27, 2006 at 6:42 pm

The dilution of examine skills as good as the need for inform literacy, the theme we have discussed frequently, has finished the proceed to mainstream discussions once again: Searching for Dummies. Also enchanting is plead of an one more theme we debated, Wikipedia. The letter cites the weed roots bid by grad students to put good [...]

Whither digital collections?

Posted by on March 2, 2006 at 6:46 pm

Recently, Steve reminded me of the devise that is the coproduction of the Universities of Wisconsin as good as Alabama. The project, Publisher’s Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books, is the digital collect up of low-pitched publisher’s bindings. These bindings, most usually finished by the involuntary steel stamping process, operation from the gawdy to [...]