There are a lot of sessions at ASIS&T (and probably most conferences) with fairly impregnable titles. I’ve found myself sitting in sessions which were about something very different than I thought. But this session title is pretty straightforward: It was all about evaluating virtual reference services.
Marie Radford (Rutgers University) and Lynn Connaway (OCLC) spoke [...]
Archive for October, 2008
ASIST08: Evaluating E-Reference: Transforming Digital Reference through Research and Evaluation
Posted in ASIST, academia, education, library stuff, technology, tagged asist08 on October 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
ASIST08: My So-Called Life on the Web
Posted in ASIST, technology, tagged asist08 on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(But first, an aside about conference internet access: It is crappy. And I’m a poor graduate student who can’t afford to spend an obscene amount of money everyday for a decent connection. There is free “access” in some parts of the conference hotel, but it goes in and out like crazy and it’s not available [...]
ASIST08: Tagging as a Communication Device
Posted in ASIST, cataloging, library stuff, professional development, tagged asist08 on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The second session I attended yesterday dealt with tagging, another subject I’ve been drawn to during my year in library school.
Heather Pfeiffer of New Mexico State University gave an overview of ontology building. She used the framework of language—syntax, semantics, and pragmatics—to talk about how we construct ontological frameworks, and she placed tagging within [...]
ASIST08: Credibility and Authority of Information in Learning Environments
Posted in ASIST, education, library stuff, tagged asist08 on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was up bright and early this morning for the first session, and am so, so grateful I’m staying in the conference hotel. It just makes life so much easier.
This morning’s session (well, one of the several) was on information literacy and how students judge credibility when they’re researching, whether it’s for school or [...]
ASIST08: Day One
Posted in ASIST, professional development, technology, tagged asist08 on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Attending a conference where there are people you know is a million times better than one where you don’t. I’m a shy person (shocker!) so without a liaison or two to introduce me to new people, the sad truth is a probably won’t meet new people. And I will wander around awkward and alone until [...]
Should librarians hate Wikipedia?
Posted in academia, education on October 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I just finished reading an article in the MIT Technology Review, Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth, by Simon L. Garfinkel, which brought up what I still consider a pretty touchy subject: What about Wikipedia? Is it an ok jumping off point for research, or should students (and librarians) avoid it at all costs?
Garfinkel [...]
Brief segue into politics, and some stuff about books to make you happy
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I used to blog about politics all the time. But after the 2004 election, I lost my taste for it. Campaigns seemed to be existing in this bubble of spin and dishonesty, far removed from facts, from the information people needed to make informed choices. It seemed that what candidates talked about had no meaning. [...]
