Our next meeting is scheduled for March 7, 2008 between 10:00 am and noon at the CJRLC Headquarters in Freehold. As always, light refreshments will be served and all are welcome to attend!
Please let me know what discussion topics you'd like to see on our "agenda" for this meeting!
Here are a few possibilities:
Lisa Coats forwarded an interesting essay by Ursula Le Guin that follows up on the discussion about reading we had at our last meeting. The essay is titled"Staying Awake: Notes on the Alleged Decline of Reading," and it appears on pages 33-38 of the February 2008 edition of Harper's Magazine.
I read a study in Reference & User Services Quarterly (Vol. 47, Iss. 2) entitled, "Determining Use of an Academic Library Reference Collection: Report of a Study" and I'd be curious to know how, or if, members go about determining the use of their print reference collections and/or how they determine what to buy, keep, weed, or take electronic. Martin, if you're planning to attend, this might dovetail with a follow-up discussion of your library's loss of reference-area space and the subsequent changes to the reference collection, (as discussed at the Oct. 12, 2007 meeting).
Two other possible items, both perhaps more IL-related, but certainly relevant to our work:
Steven Bell posted "Why Students Want Simplicity and Why it Fails Them When it Comes to Research" on the ACRLog earlier this month. This might also make an interesting discussion piece.
A colleague sent me an article by Michael Bugeja from the January-February 2008 issue of The Futurist entitled, "The Age of Distraction: The Professor or the Processor?" I have notes and questions all over the margins of my copy of this one; it too, might make for some good discussion. (If you're interested, The Futurist is available in Academic ASAP and Academic Search Premier)
Please, send additional ideas and issues in advance of the next meeting -- either as a comment to the blog, or via email to me. See you all soon!
Monday, February 11, 2008
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