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I noticed an interesting post about citation pop up on the RDC Library Facebook wall today. Apparently, MLA has created a standard format for citing tweets. Learn more here. APA has this covered as well (explained here). Of broader interest, “social scholarship” is a really interesting concept that embraces the act of scholars using Web [...] Source: ppdigital A few weeks ago I led a session with RDC Library co-workers Yvonne Phillips and Lisa Wakefield entitled “You Are What You Read.” The hour-long session was done as part of a Wellness Day event held for faculty and staff over the mid-term break. It was a fun way to promote the [...] The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) is an annual conference that highlights the latest research, education, and innovations in the areas of information literacy, library instruction, and research skills. http://sites.macewan.ca/wilu2012/about-2/ Registration is now closed [edited May 8] for WILU 2012 happening May 23-25 at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton Alberta. This year’s theme [...] In further documenting my days as a librarian at Red Deer College Library, as part of the Library Day in the Life project, here is how the last two days went. Wednesday Wednesday morning I headed to the Black Knight Inn to discuss details about the upcoming RDC Faculty Association social (the Sizzler) I am [...] … started yesterday (January 30) and goes until February 5. Take a look at how librarians around the world are documenting their days using social media by visiting the Library Day in the Life Project Wiki. Or check back here for my own daily updates. To catch up, here is how my Monday-Tuesday of this [...] “Social is just one part of what we do. We think of it as an information utility,” he said, describing Twitter as a personal news service as much as a social network. (Twitter is much more than social: co-founder Dorsey) Twitter is a social networking site I am not ashamed to check routinely throughout the [...] 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 [...] Check it out! Don’t Discard the Librarians is an article by Ian Brown appearing in the Globe and Mail. It will warm your heart. Some key quotes: “Here is the case for human librarians: You, the information consumer, don’t want to go insane.” “Librarians know what’s available in a field, where to find it, [...] Take a listen to Jian Ghomeshi’s eloquent plea for the survival of school librarians in his opening essay for Q on CBC Radio 1 today. Bravo! 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 PRESENTERS: Kristine Plastow, Robyn Hall & Teneil Vuori, Red Deer College Library The ability to interact [...] |
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