28 November 2008 – 11:22 am
Staff of the University Library are participating in a “23 things” program this month, learning about social media and online teaching by completing a series of self-paced modules.
This week’s topic is blogging, and this post is my demonstration that I know how to blog ;-)
It’s also the debut appearance of my new avatar:
The “23 things” [...]
Posted on behalf of Steering Committee member Professor Janet McCalman, who writes:
I am anxious that a paper, originally recommended to me by Pip Pattison, be shared as widely as possible in the academic community and among those involved in the IF Commission.
The document is a draft paper (2007) by Andrew Abbott on “library research as [...]
5 February 2008 – 6:16 am
From our own Library Intelligencer (Shirley Sullivan), a handful of links to benchmarking surveys about research support provided by libraries.
2 February 2008 – 6:13 am
This week’s VALA 2008 conference in Melbourne includes a series of presentations about designing physical and virtual spaces for scholarly activity.
Scholarly activity happens in many different kinds of places. Perhaps the most obvious is the library building.
What does a library look like? Here are photos of two libraries that look like giant bookshelves: temporary construction [...]