As seen on FaceBook (thanks H.D.) and Youtube: On Dec. 9th, 2008 in order to break up the stresses of fall semester exam week, UNC students flash raved their Undergraduate Library. Without warning to those that were unaware, hundreds of students packed the library lobby and brought it hardcore for over 8 minutes. That looked [...]
I’m leaving tomorrow morning for Savannah, GA to attend the SLA Leadership Summit. Keynote speaker is Stephen McGarvey. I will also officially start my term there as Chair of the Information Technology Division. It will be my first visit to this Southern Belle of a city and I’m really looking forward to it.
Recently on the STS-L list, someone asked for good sources for book reviews in science and technology. As one of the reasons I started EngLib all that time ago was to create my own archive of interesting-things-to-know-and-remember, I will list the suggested items here by the various contributors to the thread (thanks to them). Choice [...]
The Library Journal just published a story on 2008′s top 10 news in academic libraries, in two parts. In Part 2 are the Honorable Mentions: Honorable Mentions: The LJAN Top Ten Stories of 2008, 4-10 . And the top three are: #1 Georgia State University Sued by Publishers over E-Reserves #2 Harvard’s OA Mandate #3 The Google [...]
SLA’s Inside the Box Connections blog announced today that the 2008 SLA Board of Directors voted in December to approve the formation of the Academic Division of SLA. The scope of the Division is to focus on topics of interest to academic librarians from all subject disciplines. This division is committed to improving the quality of teaching [...]
LISNews published a post today about a 2004 story on the membership libraries. The main library featured intrigued me as I didn’t know of it before. The Mechanics’ Institute Library and Chess Room was founded in 1854 in San Francisco and is the oldest library on the West Coast and one of the oldest chess clubs [...]
Jeffrey R. Young lists, in the December 19 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the top 10 threats to universities’ IT systems. Phishing, malware, smart phones, social software, students and faculty all pose a security risk. Why? Sometimes your Friend is not your friend, students tend to share their password info and faculty are [...]
As the first USF librarian at the Lakeland campus (now Polytechnic), I opened the USF Polytechnic Library in January 2007 and have developed its various services. I've held positions as information broker, Internet consultant and academic librarian in Canada, the US and Europe. A blogger since 2001, I've created and maintained several sites in, and outside, of the biblioblogosphere. I'm active in SLA, and currently serve as on the boards of the Academic Division and the Florida-Caribbean Chapter.
