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Although I am an alum of SJSU’s SLIS program, I mostly filter out the plethora of on-going emails I still receive from the school about courses, talks, and student groups, but one message caught my eye - [slisadmin] 2011 SLIS Lecture Webcast: Stephen Abram on the Future of Social Libraries & Learnin

In an attempt to blog my Mid-Atlantic Chapter Medical Library Association continuing education experience, I wrote the following post.  With the event having occurred over 2 months ago, I thought submitting to the public here would be better than leaving the item in the “pending review” category of

As part of a project to provide additional resources to our student workers about how to identify peer-reviewed resources (since EBSCO is a bit of a crap shoot), I decided to create a short tutorial about defining the terminology, show how search results may or may not identify peer-review-age, and

Are you feeling tired? Worn down by grading too many papers? More inspired by the end of Spring semester/quarter? Then, you feel just like me.  The cure: CCLI.  In one day, I’ve been not only inspired to better structure my outreach for effective acceptance by students, but also got to explore new o

One of the benefits of being on summer break is the reintroduction to normal society aka Daily Show and The Colbert Report.  Through their analysis, I get some great info lit pieces.  If you haven’t been watching lately, I recommend the following viral items: Jon Stewart’s “We’re Here, We’re Queer,

In late August 2009 while visiting with friends in San Jose, I received a desperate call asking “Would you teach one of the Library Studies courses this semester?”  Little did I know just how addicting teaching, assessment, and working with students and faculty to be.  My Italian professor used to d