Par Fabien Gallet. A l’approche des partiels ou pendant les week-ends, les bibliothèques universitaires françaises sont souvent prises d’assaut. Raison pour laquelle, de nombreux étudiants se plaignent des horaires d’ouverture ou du manque de place. Voir l'article...
By Barbara Fister. I thought I’d look back at a year’s worth of Babel Fishing to see what was on my mind in 2014. Privacy. Net neutrality. What libraries mean as social institutions. Where social justice fits into what we do and what happens when we forget that it should. How and why librarians and scholars should reorganize our work and resources so that knowledge is open to all. How to help undergraduate students learn to navigate that record of knowledge so that they can make their own. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Our IHE community has been having a good discussion about the future of the academic library. I hope that this Q&A contributes to our conversation. Jim Fries, the Director of the Feldberg Business-Engineering Library at Dartmouth College, and his colleague Anne Esler, graciously agreed to answer my questions about how the world of graduate professional libraries are evolving and changing. Read more...
By Brian Mathews. I always like finals because the campus has a heightened sense of purpose. This semester I came down with a bad cold and had to miss most of the excitement. Fortunately social media enabled me to follow along from home. More...
By Barbara Fister. I seem to be on an ethnographic kick lately. After reading ethnographies of social media platform development and Anonymous, now I’m reading one about Wikipedia, Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia published by Stanford University Press earlier this year. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Carl Straumsheim’s 12/10 article Clash in the Stacks, and the comments that followed,should be read and discussed on every campus.By Brian Mathews. Yesterday I posted this tweet and it received a lot of attention so I’ll expand my thoughts. About a year ago we opened our Multipurpose Room in the library. We framed it as a gathering place for creative, cultural, academic, and social experiences. The one major rule is that everything has to be public: no private events. More...
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Lundi 24 novembre 2014, 10 heures : la Bibliothèque Nationale Universitaire de Strasbourg (BNU) rouvre ses portes au public après 4 ans de travaux. Samedi 22 et Dimanche 23 novembre, les Journées Portes Ouvertes ont accueilli près de 10.000 enseignants et chercheurs, étudiants, strasbourgeois, alsaciens, lorrains, allemands… Album de 41 photos, publiées dans huit tweets, le week-end dernier. Suite...
By Barbara Fister. Earlier this week I participated in an online conversation about an article that is forthcoming in College & Research Libraries that looks at how a group of librarians at the Claremont Colleges conducted a multi-faceted assessment of information literacy in their first-year seminar program. They collected 99 first year writing samples and analyzed them using a rubric based on one developed at Carleton College (and similar to one we’ve used at my library for years). Read more...
By Barbara Fister. I have often wondered about the way librarians use the word “library.” Sometimes we are referring to a building (“the library will be open until 2 a.m. during finals”), but more often we use it as if it’s a collective being that has agency. The library is offering a new program. The library has to cancel more journals. Read more...
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