More help for students

From iLibrarian comes this post by Ellyssa, 10+ Websites for LIS (and other) Students with links to several sites where you can collaborate with friends or store information. Only one of the sites is aimed specifically at Library Studies students so there is something for everyone here.

Online Research – help a colleague

Sue Waters is asking for assistance in finding out types of collaborative projects educators are using with their students, the reasons why they become involved in these projects and the tools used for the collaboration. See her request here.

In another post she asks:

I’m hoping you can help me in the following ways:

1. Please complete my survey on Tools for Managing Your Workload – will take less than 1 minute

What Does the Future Hold?

David Lee King introduces some discussion points in his blog post The Beginning of the New Normal. Of particular interest to me are the comments about libraries in the last paragraphs.

Two Top Articles

Trevor sent in two links from FUMSI to be added to The Fridge. The first one, Intranet 2.0: Ten Not-So-Easy Steps is all about users owning the content on their Intranet. It is a great idea and I hope will encourage Trevor to seize the initiative and post to this blog in his own name next time he finds something of value.

Convenience Trumps Quality: How Digital Natives Use Information is about Marc Prensky’s concept of digital natives and how Librarians of the older generations need to consider how we can manage information and access to it and not simply store it.

Both are well worth reading.