Our library recently renovated the first and second floors and decided to discontinue a large portion of journals that we were receiving in microfiche. In part this decision was based on the lower usage statistics for microfiche. However, we also decided to order a new microfiche/microfilm reader. We went with the ScanPro and are now […]
From the ACRL Insider blog: The March 2008 issue (Volume 69, Number 2) of College & Research Libraries is now available online.
Today’s Front Pages This cool resource was highlighted on Lifehacker:
“Want so see how the newspapers around your region played the Super Tuesday results on their front page? Just want to get a quick glance at your own newspaper’s front page without clicking through its web site? The web site of the Newseum, an interactive journalism museum, offers […]
In the sprit of Web 2.0, the OK-ACRL board is pleased to have a new technology in place for our membership to share ideas, best practices, and other insights. The blog will eventually grow to serve as a portal for information on Oklahoma academic librarianship. Anyone can comment, and if you are interested […]
I just read a fascinating article about a new web site you’ll want to keep an eye on. You can find the article here.
The site is called The College Freeway and essentially it allows college students to upload class notes, study guides, assignment sheets, even essays they have written. Other students can then easily access […]
I enjoyed this post on Lifehacker a while back. It features some good sites to keep in mind for reference work.
Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources. Most of these sites won’t pop up to the surface of the […]
I was perusing through Davd Lee King’s blog today and there were a few interesting posts about notions of community and Web 2.0. I think it’s easy to understand the connection between 2.0 tools and the communities that use them. After all, that’s one of the big reasons why the library world has […]
Interesting article (first published in the Chronicle of Higher Education) in which David Greenstein at the University of California Digital Library talks to Google and Microsoft executives about access to information and trends in scholarly communication. Read it here.
Libraries are really all about access. The aim of the academic library is to make information […]
I know that this might be a heretical statement in the eyes of many, but this post made me into a dedicated reader of the Annoyed Librarian.
…those gullible graduates find that if they’re lucky they can celebrate the excitement of being an information professional only if they want to move to the wilderness and work […]
Has anybody tried this? I happen to love LibraryThing. It looks pretty neat, especially if it is free or inexpensive.