Registration is now open for the new ACRL e-learning course, “Virtual Reference Competencies II: Practice and Expand Communications Skills and Knowledge.” The course will be offered January 28 – February 16, 2008. ABOUT THE COURSE Virtual reference service requires all of the same professional communications skills and knowledge as face-to-face […]
Registration is now open for a new ACRL e-learning course, “Introduction to Website Usability.” The course will be offered January 28 – February 16, 2008. ABOUT THE COURSE For very little investment in staff hours and training you can reap tremendous benefits by connecting with the users of your library […]
The December 2007 issue of C&RL News is now online and in the mail. Two articles this month focus on the challenges and opportunities of library renovations. Stephanie J. Graves details her experience providing instructional services outside the library as a “Homeless instruction librarian” during a renovation project at Southern […]
The folks at American Libraries Focus produced this brand new video welcome to the upcoming 2008 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA. Take a look and join us in Anaheim!
Friday, November 30, is the deadline to register for the upcoming ACRL Webcast “The Role of the Librarian in Combating Student Plagiarism.” The Webcast will be presented on December 6, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific, 12:00 p.m. Mountain, 1:00 p.m. Central, and 2:00 p.m. Eastern. This 1.5-hour Webcast explores the […]
An interview with Baltimore filmmaker John Waters recorded at the 13th National ACRL Conference in Baltimore on Saturday March 31, 2007. Waters was interviewed by ACRL President Pamela Snelson, ACRL Conference Program Committee member, Carlos Melian, ACRL member and podcast introducer, David Free, and ACRL Content Strategist, Kathryn Deiss. Waters […]
The Baltimore Convention Center played host to about 3100 academic librarians who came March 29-April 1, 2007, to navigate new technologies and cruise the exhibits at the 13th National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Speakers included filmmaker John Waters […]
ACRL has issued a new white paper, “Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement,” resulting from a one-day invitational meeting to collectively brainstorm the evidence needed to manage and influence the changing system of scholarly communication. Listen to the co-chairs of ACRL’s Scholarly Communications Committee […]
College & Research Libraries News Editor-In-Chief David Free talks with Judi Briden, Katie Clark, and Ann Marshall of the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries about their use of ethnographic tools and techniques to understand undergraduate students and their use of information. Briden, Clark, and Marshall are contributors to the […]
Randy Hensley (University of Hawaii at Manoa) interviews Danuta Nitecki (Yale University), Loanne Snavely (Penn State University), and Cindy Cunningham (The Corbis Corporation) about visual literacy and its connection to and role in information literacy, the subject of their ALA 2007 Annual Conference presentation on June 24, 2007. The conference […]
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