I feel extremely fortunate to have been asked to speak at the South Carolina Library Association conference by the College and University Section. I met a bunch of great people, enjoyed the presentation, and a lovely time overall. An added bonus was that I was able to catch up with my friend, Mary H., who [...]
Kenning Arlitsch (University of Utah) Kristin Antelman (North Carolina State University)
Conducted a survey of 240 future leaders with a 72% response rate
Their questions: Are future leaders satisfied with org style? How impact effectiveness?
Maloney, Antelman, Arlitsch, Butler. “Future Leaders’ Views on Organizational Culture.” College and Research Libraries, May 2010.
Preprint: http://bit.ly/futureleaders
What they learned:
Librarians prefer more flexible and [...]
Joan K. Lippincott is from the Coalition for Networked Information
Shift from desktop to laptop is almost complete for college students
80.5% college students own a laptop (don’t always bring it to class, though)
66% college students oen an internet-capable cell phone
71% of teens owned a cell phone in 2008
Discussion of cell phone plan pricing and apps stores [...]
Today was the final day of the semester long teaching class I’ve been working on. Together, with Roz Tedford, we’ve held what boils down to a one credit course (without the credit) for any library staff member at Wake Forest University who is interested in instruction. We had great attendance. 22 people attended at one [...]
The last official program I participated in on Saturday was my panel, Mapping Your Path to the Mountaintop. Steven Bell organized the session, and he, John Shank, Brian Mathews, and I were on the panel. The session was about strategic career planning, but early on Steven was wise to begin discussion about how to make [...]