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Peer Review 2.0: Tomorrow’s Scholarship for Today’s Students Kate Gronemyer & Anne-Marie Deitering Ontario Library Association Super Conference January 30, 2009. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. What is 2.0? Five Web 2.0 themes — from the ACRL Instruction Section’s Current Issues Discussion Forum, Research Instruction in a Web 2.0 World (Annual, 2006). We need to deal with [...]
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Peer-reviewed Monday is going to become Peer-Reviewed Tuesday for this week only. I’m on what can best be termed a layover at home between two big and crazy conferences — this one, where I was committee-meeting girl and this one, where Kate and I are giving a presentation. I have the article, I have the [...]
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The article that starts off this post is this 2004 article from the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, but it’s behind a paywall, so I’m just going to talk about it briefly and focus instead on this 2007 paper which reports on, and updates, the same research. So I was motivated to read these [...]
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Not learning to do stuff from tutorials, though that’s where this started, but more thinking about tutorials by looking at tutorials. It has been a couple of weeks, but I finally had some time to take a look at the backlog in my “arts and crafts” folder in Google Reader and one of the things [...]
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I am apparently not the only theory geek out there. But I realized that I haven’t been doing a great job of putting my money where my mouth is where it comes to the value of peer-reviewed articles. So my Monday evenings this term look like they are, for a variety of reasons, going to [...]
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I was naively hoping I would never need to do this, but I decided I probably should do so before I really needed to – I added a brief set of guidelines about comments on my about page.
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(that’s “for the win”) (via CrookedTimber) The PostModern Language Association’s new rulings on alternative source citations – necessary because the MLA doesn’t tell you how to cite tattoos or Magic 8-balls.
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According to the ACRL Instruction Section’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (ACRL/IS ILCSHE for short) the first step to information literacy goes like this: the information literate student determines the nature and extent of the information needed. (Or, as it is usually described in the first-year courses I teach – choosing a topic.) [...]
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I’ve never really understood the whole pirate thing. Talk like a pirate day can come and go without my noticing, and despite the presence of Johnny Depp, I didn’t make it through the whole Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. So even if I had seen the mentions of the Last American Pirate hoax on the [...]
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