Information Tyrannosaur

The Vermont Library Association is launching the Librarian Relief Fund to assist librarians who suffered personal property damages as a result of Hurricane Irene. You’ve likely seen the devastation on the news. What you don’t always see though is the extremely long, labor intensive process of cleaning up after something like this. It’ll take people in these [...]

The classroom is a wonderful environment. I truly enjoy teaching students in the classroom and I loved taking classes. That is the principal place we think of where learning takes place. But the sort of learning that takes place there is facilitated. It is instructor directed and mediated. As educators though, both professors and librarians, [...]

Higher education is increasingly putting more emphasis on evidence and assessment. Libraries everywhere, whether public, special, school, or academic, are feeling more pressure to demonstrate their value to administrators, boards, politicians, and their constituents. Megan Oakleaf, a professor at the iSchool at Syracuse University, wrote an excellent report entirely on this topic called The Value of [...]