Balance and Momentum: Spring Education Program
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Child Abuse Prevention: A Select Bibliography
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Learning Spaces
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On Space and the Education Program
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125th Anniversary: Call for Actors
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Balance and Momentum: Spring Education Program
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Learning Spaces
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On Space and the Education Program
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Process in the Education Program
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Research & Information Services, Fall 2012
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ALA's frequently challenged books of the 21st century
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On the education bubble, being unemployable and in debt
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ResearchBroker: Get hands on experience conducting research with professionals in education
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Finding and using data in your research paper
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Smart E-Textbooks: Is it ethical to track your students' reading?
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Allen Foresta
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Julia Martin
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addie
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Since the concept of the "home page" was first introduced to us in the mid-1990s, our library has had a number of "Web presences," all of which can be viewed by means of the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive (at by searching by the library's old website address, i.e., lweb.tc.columbia.edu. It occurred to me …
This past summer the Library Services unit maintained a low hum of activity, at the same time closing out the activities of the Fall and Spring semesters, and gearing up for the upcoming academic year. A major focus of our efforts was preparation for rolling out a new version of Blackboard, the learning management system …
Among the great pleasures of providing research and information services (what used to be called “doing reference”) is the continuing opportunity, and indeed necessity, to learn: about disciplines, research approaches, technologies new to oneself. I feel privileged to have been able to serve the research and information needs of members of the academic community in …
Some lovely people at Coastal Carolina University have created a series of Library Instruction videos for the Kimbel Library. If you click through to the videos page and scroll down, you can find out more information about the 3 creators (John Watts, Joshua Vossler, and Tim Hodge) as well as more about their design …
Some lovely people at Coastal Carolina University have created a series of Library Instruction videos for the Kimbel Library. If you click through to the videos page and scroll down, you can find out more information about the 3 creators (John Watts, Joshua Vossler, and Tim Hodge) as well as more about their design …
During Fall 2011, the Research & Information Services team delivered a substantial number of in-person, telephone, and email reference exchanges, one-on-one research consultations, and course-specific library information sessions. The following is a summary of reference and public services provided to the academic community during the Fall semester. As of the last week in December before …
Title: Literacy 2.0: Reading and Writing in 21st Century Classrooms Authors: Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, Alex Gonzalez Publisher: Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press, © 2010 Check it out: LC149.5 .F745 2010 From the publisher: Literacy 2.0 is where traditional literacy and technological literacy meet. Students in the 21st century still need to develop the reading …
Title: Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning Author: Marc Prensky, Foreword by Stephen Heppell Publisher: Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, c. 2010 Check it out: LB1027.23.P74 2010 From the publisher: Students today are growing up in a digital world. These "digital natives" learn in new and different ways, so educators need new approaches to make …
The poet Gary Snyder writes about “the real work,” which he defines, tautologically but to me compellingly, as "what is to be done.” In my recent encounters with ideas bearing on the real work of research and information services, I’ve noticed the recurrence of the theme of failure, …
Research & Information Services, Fall 2012
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Library Services Highlights and Statistics, Summer 2012
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Library Services Statistics and Highlights, Spring 2012
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Research & Information Services Statistics and Highlights, Fall 2011
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Literacy 2.0: Reading and Writing in the 21st Century Classrooms
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Teaching Digital Natives
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Fail Again. Fail Better.
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Fail Again. Fail Better.
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Thanks for your note, Anne…