Information Tyrannosaur

Being a librarian, you need to wear a number of different hats. For the IM reference service we have now implemented I needed to do some promotion. I came up with a few advertising ideas including: flyers posted where the students are (i.e. dorms, commons), bookmarks with the URL on them, and screen savers or [...]

A recent comment referred to an article by Randy Cohen in which he addresses a concern about a professor not posting a video-recorded lecture online after classroom attendance started dropping. As the comment stated, students now expect these tools to be available. It is humorous that this has become the norm. I think the professor [...]

I really am amazed with the web. Learning is just so different now. Instead of having to pay for journal subscriptions, professors are now putting their articles up for the public to view. In addition, institutions are also putting up video recorded lectures of classes. What I take advantage of though, are the wealth of [...]