Wednesday, December 23, 2009

LibGuide Cover art without Amazon links!

Did y'all notice that here's a new buttons in the "Books from the Catalog" entry screen? Instead of just Amazon you can now get cover art from Syndetics. Which means no link to take people off to Amazonland!

I only noticed it today, but maybe it's not news. Has anyone else seen this nifty thing?

Sunday, December 6, 2009

ACRL Immersion '10 Program

Friday, December 11 is the application deadline for the ACRL Immersion '10 Program. Complete program details and application materials are online at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/infolit/professactivity/iil/immersion/immersion10.cfm.


The ACRL Immersion ’10 Program provides four-and-a-half days of intensive information literacy training and education for academic librarians. Applications are being accepted for Immersion ’10 Teacher and Program tracks, to be held at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., July 25-30, 2010

E- book readers

Grant to purchase e-book readers to loan out to our students, faculty, and/or staff.
Need your recommendation....
Suggested products to look at include, but are not limited to: Kindles, Nooks, the Sony Digital Readers, and others that we may run across.

Somethings to keep in mind....
Amazon Kindles  -Kindle 2 and Kindle DX
Sony Readers- Reader Pocket Edition and  Reader Touch Edition

Thursday, December 3, 2009

ALA 2010 Annual Conference



June 24-29, 2010

Washington Convention Center


801 Mount Vernon Place NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Harvard Graduate School of Education APA 6th

An online tutorial developed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education School to teach the fundamentals of APA style now reflects 6th edition changes to APA’s Publication Manual

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

ACRL Proposals for 2011 in Philadelphia

Proposals are now being accepted for the ACRL 2011 National Conference to be held March 30 - April 2, 2011, in Philadelphia. Contributed paper, panel session, preconference, and workshop proposals are due May 10, 2010. Cyber Zed Shed presentation, poster session, roundtable discussion, and Virtual Conference Webcast proposals are due November 1, 2010. Submit proposals via the online form.

Monday, November 2, 2009

APA Replacing incorrect first printings ...

... but the jury is still out on who, when, where, and how this will get accomplished.

Keep your eyes and ears open on your various listservs.

Original story: Chronicle