The 2009 ULS Program Committee is very excited about their proposed Program at the Annual Conference in Chicago titled “Millennials in Graduate School: How Do We Support Them?” Millennials, those born between 1982 and 1994, are finishing college and entering graduate school. Surveys suggest that these students use libraries heavily...
Loreen Phillips, Head of Information Literacy Services in the McDermott Library at the University of Texas-Dallas (http://www.utdallas.edu/library), recently published a book on marketing for libraries. This topic is always of interest to librarians — as Loreen said, “especially in these times when we must maximize use of the campus library...
The following is from Cory Tucker. Contact him for more information. Program Title: Subject Librarian 2.0: Emerging Trends and Future Challenges for the Liaison Librarian Short Description This panel will take a look into the future to identify new challenges and opportunities for subject liaisons in academic libraries. The panel...
Dr. Richard Price recently finished his Ph.D on the philosophy of perception from Oxford. With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, he’s just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two things: – It shows academics around the world structured in a ‘tree’ format, displayed according to their departmental...
Join your colleagues in Seattle, March 12-15, 2009, at the premier professional development event for academic and research librarians and staff. Registration and housing for ACRL’s 14th National Conference is now open! The ACRL 14th National Conference will challenge you to explore new ideas, engage in new learning, and extend...
The Voting America project from the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab is interesting because it helps to visualize and analyze historical election data back to 1840. http://americanpast.richmond.edu/voting/ Thanks to Amy Ciccone for sharing this!
Today’s post on ACRLog from Steven Bell is “Why a CLS and ULS.” The post highlights a conversation that just started in the CLS Facebook group on the question of why there are two different sections in ACRL for college and university libraries. I couldn’t resist posting my response to...
It’s a peer-reviewed* blog with a team of visionary new librarians as its founders. In the Library with the Lead Pipe is a team blog by six librarians working in academic, public, and school libraries across the United States. Four are alumni of ALA’s Emerging Leaders program and one is...
The Association of College & Research Libraries, with generous support from Thomson Reuters, makes an annual award of $1500 to support dissertation research in the field of academic librarianship.* Details are available online at http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlawards/doctoraldissertation.cfm and applications are being accepted through December 5, 2008. Are YOU the next Doctoral Dissertation...
COMMUNICATION & POLITICAL SCIENCE LIAISON/LIBRARIAN The Georgia State University Library seeks a committed and energetic librarian to provide innovative teaching and research support to the areas of Speech and Journalism within the Department of Communication, and to the Department of Political Science. For these departments of responsibility, the librarian will...