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Visits to Sheffield Hallam and Leeds University Libraries

I've been on a lot of library visits since I've started the MA, and have managed to fall behind a little on my updates, although I've still continued my recording habits everywhere - I'm sure there's an ethnographic study on 'the blogger in the wild' Read More...

Virtual worlds

The discussions continue regularly on Infolit iSchool in Second Life (SL), the virtual world. Most recently, Robin Ashford (a librarian from the USA, Robin Mochi in SL) led a discussion about the Academic librarian in Second Life . The picture show the Read More...

Visit to Chesterfield Public Library

The first library visit of the MA course today, and we went to Chesterfield Public Library , with the slightly broader remit of hearing about Derbyshire Public Libraries in general. If you've been following this blog for a while, you'll have picked up Read More...

Pedagogical roles

Today has one of my catch-up posts from the Creating Knowledge conference that took place at the end of August in Turku, Finland. Kaisa Sinikara talked about pedagogical roles for librarians in the changing information environment . She is Director of Read More...

US report on research libraries

There was an interesting publication in August from the US' Council on Library and Information Resources. Council on Library and Information Resources. (2008) No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century. Washington: CLIR. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/pub142.pdf Read More...
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