MIT Students Put Price Tags on Expensive Journals in the Library
To help raise awareness of open access issues, some students at MIT recently added price tags to journals in the library that had subscription rates of at least $5000. Read more about this interesting stunt at the MIT Libraries News blog.
Webliography For March 2, 2007 Emerging Technologies Second Life Event
Does Your Life Suck? By Camille Dodero Boston Phoenix www.thephoenix.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=17440 A great overview of Second Life. If Second Life means nothing to you, this is your introduction.
infoisland.org infoisland.org/ Home of the Second Life library.
ALA Washington Office In Second Life blogs.ala.org/districtdispatch.php?title=title_25 The Second Life ALA office offers information on upcoming activities, an interactive computer, and a slideshow of pictures of the office and staff.
"Second Life: an Introduction for CUNY Libraries" Kari Swanson, Yale University Library
Second Life is a 3-dimensional online environment populated by graphical representations (avatars) of over 1 million people. The virtual environment of Second Life offers the potential for radical changes in the way information and services are provided and also in the way librarians, library users and information interact. Librarians in Second Life are collaborating with users to bring them resources and services in numerous areas, including science, in traditional and new, innovative ways.
Kari Swanson (Kari Meadowbrook in Second Life) will provide an introduction to Second Life, including a demonstration of basic Second Life functionality, and tours of the Second Life Library 2.0 project and the library on the NMC Campus whose design was inspired by the Beinecke Library. See how virtual librarianship is taking on whole new forms.
Date: Friday, March 2, 2-4pm Location: Graduate Center, Room 6418 RSVP: ddominguez@ccny.cuny.edu
Hostos -winner of the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award
I know that this has been on CULIBS, but just in case you didn't click on those email links, here is an excerpt from the ACRL announcement. __________________________________________________________________________________
The Hostos Community College Library, winner of the community college category, was recognized for putting the "community" in community college.
"The Hostos Library staff demonstrate exemplary partnership and leadership with faculty in developing new curricular design and revitalization through the development of new courses designed to teach information literacy, critical thinking, computer literacy, and also by creating bilingual online learning environments," said Frances Maloy, chair of the 2007 Excellence in Academic Libraries Selection Committee and Division Leader of Access Services at Emory University.
"The library staff has absorbed the meaning of the life of the person for whom the institution is named through their bilingual, multilevel, and curriculum integrated information literacy program," Maloy added. "Their efforts to produce the bilingual student literary and art magazine, Escriba!/Write! and to create an inviting and bilingual student-focused environment in the library are also noteworthy."
In addition, Hostos Library is serving the broader research community by preserving unique collections about Eugenio Maria de Hostos and by creating and preserving records about the founding of Hostos Community College.
"I cannot think of a better gift for our students and our community than to receive this national recognition of excellence for their library," said Lucinda Zoe, professor and chief librarian of the Hostos Community College/CUNY. "It is a powerful message to send to our community here in the South Bronx - you have the best and you deserve it. Winning this award is truly a testament to the commitment of the library faculty and staff, as well as our college administration, to the library and our students. It is a pleasure to serve such an appreciative and deserving student body, and I am most honored and blessed to work with an extremely gifted and generous faculty and staff. They consistently go above and beyond for our students and it shows. And now, everyone knows!"
