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LIS768 Context Book Assignment: Videos

Every semester in LIS768: Participatory Service & Emerging Technologies, one option for the Context Book Report assignment is to produce a video or media project. Here are this semester’s submissions.

Blink: http://animoto.com/play/FiGx1F3hgtSX8iRCLFMQ5w

Outliers: http://animoto.com/play/rjgjI4UogPomu5bKSW7qag

Latino Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLJV5_EVq_I

Setting the Table: http://animoto.com/play/tsovePOYnIEEGbX6AbOROQ

Born Digital: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bq9-eRPTP8&

Legendary Brands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9hD7T2tlc&

I struggled with a WP glitch to embed [...]

LIS768 Group Projects

Greetings from Dominican University GSLIS!

Today we had four presentations:

Library Signage: Explored the good, bad and encouraging world of library signage.

E-Books & Libraries: Presented basics, issues and considerations about e-books and offered some great examples.

See this link: www.goo.gl/DqWg8

The Library Commons: Started with the Smithsonian Commons concepts as well as other inspirations related [...]

QR Codes Connect Students to Books

I used this as an example yesterday for the Michigan school librarians:

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/newsletters/newsletterbucketextrahelping/886787-443/qr_codes_connect_students_to.html.csp

“I realized how often I see them in public and I wanted to give [students] an awareness of them,” says Brook Forest’s school librarian, John Schumacher, referring to QR codes, two-dimensional barcodes that can be read using a camera on a smartphone. [...]

Updating LIS768 List of Context Books for Student Reports

This morning I’m updating one of my favorite assignments for LIS768 Participatory Service and Emerging Technologies. Two years ago, I asked for further suggestions to share with my class. Today. I’ll do the same: what would you add? Please share in the comments below. I’ll be including the post URL in the course site.

Original [...]

Press Release: Dominican University appoints Ken Haycock as Follett Chair

River Forest, IL – Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) has appointed Dr. Ken Haycock as the Follett Chair in Library and Information Science. Haycock is the recipient of the American Library Association’s 2010 Beta Phi Mu Award, presented annually for distinguished service to education in librarianship, as well as the [...]

Announcing eChicago 2010 @ Dominican University

http://www.dom.edu/echicago

Thursday September 9 : 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Friday September 10 : 8.30 a.m.- 5 p.m. Register Today!

EChicago @Dominican is organized and sponsored by the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Dominican University. Every year practitioners, policymakers and researchers exchange ideas and find better ways to work together. As the global [...]

The Online Student Experience

A very striking example of what online education can be for some. I’m currently teaching a class this summer and am trying to do as much as I can to increase my visibility/presence. The good folks at SJSU University SLIS shared this video with me – I’m on their Technology Advisory Board.

One thing [...]

Practicum Report: Skokie Public Library - a TTW Guest Post by Brett Kochendorfer

Over the past three months I have gained invaluable experience from my practicum at the Skokie Public Library. Interacting with patrons is one of my favorite facets of librarianship and the patrons at the Skokie Public Library are phenomenal. I was inspired with the overwhelming professionalism and excellence displayed by the staff. My practicum kicked [...]

Welcome to Library School & Congrats New Grads

A brief post based on my notes for a short speech this week at Dominican GSLIS New Student Orientation and some reflection on the 55 students who graduated from our program last Saturday:

Ranganathan said “the Library is a growing organism.” That evolution continues and you all are starting your graduate library school [...]

Independent Study Project: The Book Advisor - A TTW Guest Post by Maggie Ryan

In January of this year, I began an Independent Study under the guidance of Michael Stephens. On February 14, 2010, I posted that: “The purpose of this study is to create readers’ advisory tools that utilize Web 2.0 technology.” During the past four months I have spent time: reviewing literature that is relevant to the [...]

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