30.Jan.2012 Alternative Science Careers: A Response
Background: I was contacted by a student from an US university working on a project that looked at alternative science careers. The student included a list of headings that formed the basis for this post. It’s a bit of a rush job, so please excuse the poor grammar and odd wording. If you have anything [...]
28.Jun.2011 Mind Mapping with Popplet
I was recently invited to guest lecture in an LIS class, speaking to and leading discussion around embedded librarianship and thinking beyond information literacy. For this latter topic, I had this notion that it would be interesting to get students to brainstorm broadly about what other literacies there might be, and what being literate in [...]
11.May.2011 No, no, thank you.
I listen to a lot of podcasts. Many of them are interview based: Spark, On the Media, The Sound of Young America, etc. Invariably, at the end of the interview, the host says, “Thanks for being on this show” in some form. Now, pay attention to what the interviewee says in response. It’s almost never [...]
14.Feb.2011 I prefer Ninja Librarianship, myself
Over at Confessions of a Science Librarian, John Dupuis dropped the gauntlet for all of us in academic librarianship content to go to the same library conferences and read the same library literature. He’s onto something – there’s much that can be learned from discovering where your faculty are reading/going and finding them there. This [...]
07.Feb.2011 What I learned from Super Conference 2011
This won’t be a post about the wonderful sessions I attended at the OLA Superconference 2011, because I didn’t really attend any. I couldn’t find the time! Rather, this will be some reflections on being a presenter, twice. Try something different. For one of my presentations (on active learning classrooms), my co-presenter and I used [...]
18.Sep.2009 Thode Library, September 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM
(with apologies to the Western Soundscape Archive) Title: Thode Library, September 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM Subject: Places; Ambient Recordings; Environments; Indoor Sounds Place Names: H.G. Thode Science and Engineering Library (McMaster University); Hamilton, Ontario Creator of Audio Recording: Andrew Colgoni Publisher: Andrew Colgoni Date.Original: 2009-09-18 Date.Digital: 2009-09-18 Format: audio/mp3 Resource Type: sound Digitization Specifications: [...]
28.Aug.2009 Science 2.0: What Every Scientist Needs to Know About How the Web is Changing the Way They Work
Toronto, MaRS Centre – July 29th, 2009 – Free Admission Slides and Speaker List available The title of the conference was slightly misleading, as it suggested a broad view of science 2.0 landscape. Instead, I found that at least half the talks were aimed at a specific type of researcher: those that do computational science [...]
16.May.2009 The ridiculous step.
“Google brought books to life—instead of reading through survey texts, I could search for footnotes, which led me to more precise titles, which led to still others and others, in much the same way that we navigate the Web using hyperlinks. Eventually, of course, I had to drag myself to the library to pick up [...]
01.May.2009 Groomed for Management
In a week of thought-provoking ideas, I wish to touch on one in particular: should management in libraries necessarily be librarians? We are seeing this issue come up again and again, and is an early theme in library education. “There will be a shortage of management in libraries, we need to be sure that new [...]
29.Apr.2009 On cheating
“If I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, or improve my golf swing, or write HTML, “cheating” would be the last thing that would ever occur to me. It would be utterly irrelevant to the situation. On the other hand, if I wanted a certificate saying that I could pick a jib, play [...]