MnObe Reference and Instruction Meeting February 2005

Current Projects and New Things to Report

• Carleton
• Gustavus
• Macalester
• St. Benedict / St. John's
• St. Olaf
• Readings

Carleton Report

• Library Collaboration with the Student Computing Information Center (SCIC)
  See: http://scic.carleton.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
  (Link gave a "View Access Denied" message when tested, you probably won't be able to get in to see SCIC.)

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Gustavus

• January Term Course – Information Fluency for Graduate Students
  See: http://www.gac.edu/oncampus/academics/library/jterm/syllabus.html
• Reading in Common Project – Campus and Community Members
  See: http://www.gustavus.edu/oncampus/orientation/readingInCommon.cfm
• Reference Consultations
• Group Study Trend, Library Spaces

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Macalester Report

• Moodle Course Management System
  See: http://moodle.macalester.edu/
• New First Year Orientation & First Year Instruction Program Overhaul
  See: http://www.macalester.edu/infoservices/orientation/index.html

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St. Benedict / St. John's Report

• SFX Implementation
• RefWorks Bibliographic Management System
• New Library Blog
  See: http://csbsjulibrary.blogspot.com/
  See: http://ciquest.shef.ac.uk/infolit/ (Info Lit Weblog)
• LibData
  See: http://libdata.stcloudstate.edu/csbsju/

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St. Olaf Report

• One-Shot Sessions for Faculty in January
  See: http://www.stolaf.edu/library/new/index.html
• New Subscriptions to Magazines, Cozy Furniture, & Art Work

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Readings

• "Beyond Mary Bailey and old maid librarians: Reimagining readers and rethinking reading" by Janice Radway In: Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, Fall 1994, vol. 35, no. 4, pgs. 275-296
  
  
• "Delivering the news with blogs: the Georgia State University Library experience" by Teri Vogel & Doug Goans In: Internet Reference Services Quarterly, March 2005, vol. 10, no. 1 (preprint info)
  http://www.library.gsu.edu/scholarship/articles/vogel-2004-11-IRSQ-blog.pdf
  
  
• "H-Net Book Reviews: Enhancing Scholarly Communication with Technology" by Eileen L. McGrath, Winifred Fordham Metz, and John B. Rutledge In: College and Research Libraries, January 2005, vol. 66, no. 1 (sorry, missed the page numbers on this one)
  
  
• Pew Internet & American Life Site
  See: http://www.pewinternet.org/
  
  
  "The future of the Internet" by Susannah Fox, Janna Quitney Anderson, Lee Rainie, 1/9/2005
  See: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/145/report_display.asp
  
  
  "How the internet has woven itself into American life" by Lee Rainie & John Horrigan, 1/25/2005
  See: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/148/report_display.asp
  
  
  "The State of Blogging" by Lee Rainie, 1/2/2005
  See: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/144/report_display.asp
  
  
• "Teaching skills for teaching librarians: Postcards from the edge of the educational paradigm" by Judy Peacock In: Australian Academic and Research Libraries, March 2001, vol. 32, no. 1, pgs. 26-42
  
  
• "The getting of wisdom: Reflections of a teaching librarian" by Mandy Lupton In: Australian Academic & Research Libraries, Je 2002, vol. 33, no. 2, pgs. 75-85
  
  
• "Future teaching roles for academic librarians" Ed. by Alice Harrison Bahr, New York: Haworth Press, Inc. 2000

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