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2018 Issues & Trends

August 30, 2018

What are our current issues and trends in academic libraries? One of my favorite sources for years has been the Horizon Report. In case you missed it, the New Media Consortium (NMC) went bankrupt late last year and EDUCAUSE purchased their assets in February 2018. You can still see the 2017 library edition of the […]

Categories: Trends · Tags: 2018 Issues & Trends

Diversity and Academic Libraries

June 13, 2018

Have you seen recent studies and articles on diversity in higher education? Here is a biggie from the US Department of Education: Higher Education: Gaps in Access and Persistence Study. And we find there is still room for improvement here: Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education. Even more depressing, some disparities have worsened in recent […]

Categories: Student Success · Tags: Diversity

Fake News

April 21, 2018

“Lies spread faster than truth.” The quote is from a recent study in the journal Science – have you seen it? A team did a big study of Twitter data and found that not only do lies spread faster, but also deeper. In addition, Pew reports that 2/3 of US adults get news from social […]

Categories: Featured Project · Tags: Fake News

Documents that Changed the Way We Live

March 31, 2018

I love this book! It came out last year and the author makes unexpected choices. We learn about things we might not have thought of as documents, such as the AIDS quilt, but they do of course document something significant. He only includes well-known documents if there is an extra twist that we don’t already […]

Categories: Featured Book · Tags: Documents, Joseph Janes

Kahoot and Research Instruction

February 10, 2018

Kahoot

Are your students all expert researchers? Ours are not and I think teaching students about information literacy is more important than ever. They need skills such as: Brainstorming keywords Searching effectively Evaluating sources Using information ethically/legally including citing sources These are valuable skills for career and life, as well as education. Kahoot is my current […]

Categories: Instruction · Tags: Kahoot

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