Archive for June, 2009
Harvard BSchool Publishing…
In: General Whatnot
30 Jun 2009you can kiss it. The Distant Librarian said it all so well here (without the cursing that I would use).
Gates Foundation Awards for Remedial
30 Jun 2009From the CHE, Monday June 22, 2009
Gates Foundation Chooses 15 Community Colleges for Grants Under New Program
By CHARLES HUCKABEE
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has chosen 15 community colleges and five states as grant recipients under a new program intended to improve remedial education at the college level and raise graduation rates, the Associated Press [...]
CJCLS Sponsored Session at ALA
In: Uncategorized
30 Jun 2009Going to ALA? Check out the Community and Junior College Section’s session on First-Year students:
ACRL CJCLS Annual ALA Conference Program
McCormick Place West – Room 196c
Saturday, July 11, 2009 – 10:30 a.m – 12:00 p.m.
“FYE: Connecting First-Year College Students with the Library”
Donna Younger, a nationally recognized educator, will identify best practices [...]
IT “help” for students
In: General Whatnot
30 Jun 2009All IT staff who work with student systems need to take classes in how write directions. They simply bury the information the student needs in dense, dull text. So, the student is frustrated because they can’t use the system they need to use for class, then they have to literally wade through IT’s self-absorbed [...]
iPhone App Overload? Never!
In: Cool Tools
25 Jun 2009I love my beautiful iPhone and the ten million apps and games I have on it. Well, there’s about 10 apps and the rest are games. Buckingham Palace Mysteries, Bookworm, Yard Sale, bloons, Myst (which I still hate after these many years of trying to complete that incomprehensible *%#&)….love the games. And I love the [...]
Talented People Awesomeness
In: General Whatnot
23 Jun 2009The Centered Librarian told me to tell you about this incredible A capella performance of Toto’s Africa. The thunderstorm in the beginning is awesomeness.
College of DuPage Island
In: Second Life
19 Jun 2009After two long years, we finally have an island in Second Life to work on. We bought an existing island from the Alliance Library System. Those good librarians have been a wonderful support for us, and a lifeline for me personally. Since the Linden Labs people can’t easily grasp higher order thinking, they [...]
Transforming America’s CC’s
18 Jun 2009Scout Report told me to tell you about:
Transforming America’s Community Colleges: A Federal Policy Proposal to Expand Opportunity and Promote Economic Prosperity [pdf] http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2009/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2009/0507_community_college_goldrick_rab/0507_community_college_brief.pdf
Community colleges are the bedrock of American higher education, and young and old alike use their facilities to gain specific technical skills and explore the world of the liberal arts. This [...]
Sita Sings the Blues is HERE!
In: General Whatnot
16 Jun 2009Yay! I love the time-sucking love fest that is the Internet Archive. Arguably one of the best online resources ever. The book collection alone can milk away hours upon hours of dead time.
http://www.archive.org/details/Sita_Sings_the_Blues
Tomes and Talismans–A theory
15 Jun 2009I think that the entire phenomenon of library anxiety stems from this stupid television show. So, take all of these people were forced to watch this when they were kids. They were either bored, scared or both so they didn’t like to use libraries. Then they passed this on to their kids and here we [...]
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- keedsibbrobia: I am fairly brand new to this type of community conversation thing yet Im enthusiastic to ai [...]
- Clara: I cannot believe this. I am sick of big research institutions getting the majority of funds leaving [...]
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- Monk Zymurgy: I have to agree..Sita Sings the Blues is super great. I loved it so much, i watched it twice already [...]