Library instruction in MLS programs

Last week at the ACRLog, StevenB shared results of a survey of what librarians might like to see in an LS Academic Libraries class. Instruction was high on the list. According to StevenB,
Those items that received the highest percentage of “essential” ranking were information literacy, instruction and higher education industry.
I’m not surprised, and commented as [...]

Creating an information need

As I wrote about in an earlier post, each semester I teach two to three sections of a required library class here at AUC.
The class seems like a great opportunity for students to engage with library resources. We have about 13 hours with them… a dream compared to 50-minute one shots.
The problem, however, is that [...]

Back from Croatia

I spent last week in coastal Croatia, which must be one of the most beautiful places in the world. I was there for LIDA: Libraries in the Digital Age, an annual conference that attracts an international crowd of librarians and researchers to talk about digital libraries.
The conference itself, unfortunately, wasn’t completely analogous to my own [...]

Britannica opens to users

Via the Chronicle’s Wired Campus, I read that the Encyclopedia Britannica online is now welcoming “greater participation” from its users. Hmm, an encyclopedia with user participation… sounds familiar.
The Britannica press release emphasizes how they are not Wikipedia (which isn’t named, of course):
Two things we believe distinguish this effort from other projects of online collaboration are [...]