Do we need to go back to “Shh!”?

Massey University library just completed a user survey and the comments make very interesting reading.  The main issues seem to be lack of computers students spending too much time on said computer on Facebook/Bebo, etc and not studying not enough electrical outlets for laptop users lack of study space too noisy The third one is [...]

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Reliability in the midst of chaos

A teaching student comes to the desk of my public library. She comes across as intelligent, capable, library friendly – she knows what she’s looking for and how to articulate it. She’s looking for information on different types of pen through the ages as a backgrounder to a lesson plan. She’d like book references if possible, [...]

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Library 2.0 and library users

Several librarian blogs have recently mentioned the very interesting and useful research report by Char Booth entitled “Informing Innovation: tracking student interest in emerging library technologies at Ohio University” which is available free to download in PDF format. Like many libraries, Ohio University libraries have experimented with many Web 2.0 applications in order to stay [...]

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