This year’s “required” reading for incoming first-year students is Green Collar Economy by Van Jones. Five copies are on order for Neilson, which will join one in the Science Library. (All Five College copies are now checked out). For more information on this book visit the Smith College Libraries page on this [...]
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Whether you attended the Wellness Week workshop or not, remember the SCL staff members now haver a shared “Wellness” Delicious site, and all are welcome to participate in bookmarking: http://delicious.com/sclwellness.
Smith Libraries staff have established a number of group and individual accounts for mobile and social bookmarking on Delicious. Several of these are now listed [...]
Association of College and Research Libraries. (2009). Informing innovation Tracking student interest in emerging library technologies at Ohio University. Chicago, IL: ALA http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/digital/ii-booth.pdf.
“This book by Char Booth examines one institution’s efforts to move away from technolust and towards a “culture of assessment.” It presents findings from an environmental scan conducted at Ohio University, which investigated [...]
Interesting report summary. The full report is on the CLEX website.
Internet is fostering a ‘want it now’ culture among students
7 May 2009
By Rebecca Attwood
Times Higher Education
“The evolution of the internet has produced a generation of students with “a preference for quick answers” and a “casual” approach to the evaluation and attribution of information, an inquiry [...]
I wanted to share this Delicious link that a student created as part of an education independent study: http://delicious.com/ktsaineilson. The student and professor initially contacted me for help in searching for web links. The student was saving all of her links in Word document. I encouraged her to try Delicious, which I thought would help [...]
Here are the slides from Diane’s presentation. Please forward them along to anyone else in your department who is interested.
She also said:
I’ve also included the link below of Richard Wallis’ blog post of today about the LCSH release yesterday, which reiterates a lot of the points I made this morning, but from a more [...]
