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Last June I attended (and presented at) the NEOS Mini-conference at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. Marketing Director for Edmonton Public Library (EPL), Tina Thomas, led the keynote session entitled It’s a New Day! Rebranding the Edmonton Public Library. I was thoroughly impressed by the new brand that EPL released last year. The Library’s collection of [...] I was on the plane to WILU 2011 in Regina last week when the woman sitting beside me, also headed to the conference (I am pretty sure the plane was full of library folks), handed me a newspaper article in the National Post entitled Can Wikipedia improve students’ work? It’s a good read. It discusses [...] On Thursday, April 14, I helped lead a workshop (turned webinar thanks to bad weather) at the Annual General Meeting- Spring 2011 of the Alberta Association of Academic Libraries (AAAL) in Calgary, Alberta. Digital & Media Literacy @ RDC The ability to interact with information across [...] AKA those funny looking square things cropping up all over the place … I attended the Handheld Librarian Online Conference a few weeks ago. QR Codes were mentioned in pretty much every session. So … what are QR Codes and how are libraries using them? QR (Quick Response) Codes are matrix barcodes that you can scan [...] I recently created an Open Resources LibGuide for RDC Library. The guide features resources and information on Open Access (OA) journal literature, copyright-friendly media (Open Culture), Open Education teaching resources, and Open Source Software. Creating an “open” guide can increase patron’s awareness of: - Resources freely available on the Internet regardless of their membership status with a Library [...] Human Libraries are springing up all over the world. During these events, people become “living books” that can be signed out by library patrons and “read” via sharing their experiences. It is a great way to create stronger social cohesion and understanding among library community members. I learned about this library phenomenon at the AAAL (Alberta [...] CNN recently published an article that caught my eye entitled Humans vs. automated search: Why people power is cool again. It talks about how search engine results are becoming more and more irrelevant and spammy. I could not agree more. When I teach students how to evaluate websites I no longer have them look at hoax sites [...] Unofficially, anyway… Like it or not, September is the month that has most academic librarians running around from class to class doing all that they can to ensure students know about what resources are available to them and how to use them effectively. This is usually accomplished through one hour classes where the librarian talks and [...] I was very pleased that the Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) was held in Hamilton, Ontario this year since it made it easy for me to volunteer and therefore attend part of the conference for free. The responsibilities of volunteering: On the first day of the conference (May 12), I convened an afternoon session: [...] |
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