I’m in the midst of prepping my syllabus for a summer course entitled “Digital Tools, Trends, and Debates.” One of my modules – in fact, one I’m most excited about – is focused on digital learning and digital literacies, so I think it’s relevant in this week’s worth of material to include in our conversation [...]
17
Dec
New Journal: Journal of Learning Spaces
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro campus just launched the Journal of Learning Spaces with support of the University Libraries. First off, it’s great to see a university library system hosting their own open access journals and, secondly, the interdisciplinary focus of the publication, I think, will allow for some pretty interesting intersections of topics: [...]
21
Oct
The Power Shift in Patron Privacy
In response and extension of Sarah Houghton’s livid take on the patron privacy in the wake of the Overdrive and Amazon eBook agreement, I suggest that we use the opportunity not to reform commercial privacy issues but instead to educate library users on the issues at hand.