Change Management and Risk Taking for Librarians Michael Lorenzen Scenario There was no doubt about it, Parker Brown was in trouble. He had been denying this for a few days but as he walked to an impromptu scheduled meeting with the Provost, he finally admitted to himself that he was in for it. And he knew what had caused the problem too. It was those...

This article caught my eye. It is Community Media and Information Literacy in the Digital Age. This quote stood out, "Therefore, as boyd explains, government transparency is only one part of the equation. Literacy through engagement is often the catalyst that brings private citizens into public life. However, information literacy is still reserved for...

Lydia Lum has an article up that deals with the Research Experiences Among Native American in New Mexico. It profiles the work of Paulita Aguilar. This great quote is from the article: “Faculty assume that students know how to use a library before they come to college, but that’s not always the case,” says Aguilar, who grew up in Santo Domingo Pueblo,...

The Accidental Profession: Career Paths of Academic Library Development Officers Michael Lorenzen (This paper was presented January 7th, 2011 at the 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education. It is published  in the conference proceedings. It can be cited as: Lorenzen, M. (2011). The accidental profession: Career paths of academic library...

I just read Want Buy-In? Let Your Students Do the Buying! A Case Study of Course-Integrated Collection Development by Anne Barnhart. It is in the recent issues of Collection Management. The full citation is Barnhart, Anne C.(2010) 'Want Buy-In? Let Your Students Do the Buying! A Case Study of Course- Integrated Collection Development', Collection Management,...

The new (Summer 2010) issue of the Journal of Information Literacy has an article titled A scoring rubric for performance assessment of information literacy in Dutch higher education. It was written by Jos van Helvoort and is available full-text as a .pdf file. From the Abstract: The main purpose of the research was the development and testing of...