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il 2006: Using Ethnographic Methods to Know your Users. Judi Briden, Katie Clark, Isabel Kaplan

I missed the first five minutes of this session so I didn’t get the background details, but from what I understood, the presenters were involved in a study to explore the way undergraduates complete their assignments, from the time they receive the assignment to the moment they hand it in. This was one of the [...]


WNY/O ACRL Fall Conference

I’m at the ACRL Western New York/Ontario chapter’s Fall conference today. I’ll be participating in a panel discussion on emerging technologies and 2.0 later this morning and I’m using this post as a placeholder for a bunch of academic library 2.0 examples I’d like to highlight if I get the chance (I have to remember [...]


neat use of feeds

Have a look at this: Ryan Memorial Library at Saint Charles Seminary has a really neat subject list of feeds they have pulled together from a variety of sources. Lisa McColl, at Ryan Memoral, pointed them out to me and mentioned that she considers this as an extension of collection development work, and I couldn’t [...]


more on academic blog use

Looks like Virginia Commonwealth University has a campus-wide blog pilot in the works. And how about this for an interesting use of the format: a Black History Month Blog, complete with event listings, resource highlights, and images of the week. Kudos!