Hi everyone! A quick post to wish everyone a good end of year break, and to let you know to check back with us in the new year for updates to the discussion papers section on our Resources page. Leaving you now with a CNN article looking at some web trends for the coming year: [...]
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Web trends for 2010
Posted in Articles, tagged web trends on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
University assessment 2.0?
Posted in Articles, tagged australia, curriculum design, education 2.0, griffith university, twitter, web 2.0 on October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A recent news story in the technology sector identifies Queensland’s Griffith University as being one of the first to use Twitter as a tool for assessing students: …About 340 first-year Griffith University journalism students have to Tweet ongoing assessment pieces this semester. Lecturer Dr Jacqui Ewart said she understood Griffith to be the first university [...]
The library – warehouse for books or community gathering centre?
Posted in Articles, tagged digital age, librarian 2.0, library 2.0 on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CNN has an interesting article looking at the ways in which libraries and librarians are continuing to evolve in response to increased digitisation of information and use of social technologies. Highlights include: Library 2.0… People used to go online for the same information they could get from newspapers. Now they go to Facebook, Digg and [...]
Recent Stephen Abram articles
Posted in Articles, tagged blogging, library 2.0, literacy 2.0, special libraries on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Several articles that may be of interest to readers have recently been made available by Stephen Abram on his blog, Stephen’s Lighthouse: “The New Normal” appeared as an April/May column for Information Outlook, and in it Stephen talks about some of the things that have become ‘normal’ to him now in special libraries, including social [...]
Twitter for librarians
Posted in Articles, tagged education 2.0, librarian 2.0, twitter on June 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For anybody wanting to become more familiar with the ways that microblogging service Twitter is being used by libraries and librarians, an article in the May edition of Computers in Libraries by Sarah Milstein gives a brief overview: For many people, the word “twitter” brings to mind birds rather than humans. But information professionals know [...]
Recent Campus Review article about the changing face of librarians
Posted in Articles, tagged academic libraries, australia, librarian 2.0, lis education 2.0 on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A recent article in Campus Review talks about some of the ways that academic libraries (and consequently librarians) are changing in response to increased digitisation of resources. From the article: The next generation of professional librarians are enrolled in information management degrees. They need to be given the explosion in digital information, reports Jeremy Gilling. [...]
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