A collague passed on this interesting article by Andrew Duffy from The Ottawa Citizen dated August 30, 2014, titled “The State of StatsCan Survey“. Mr Duffy provides important information about our national statistical agency. Lire la suite

I really like this award-winning poster presented at a recent Library Assessment conference by Dana Thomas and Weina Wang titled “Evaluating Library Contribution to Student Success” (see also this pic on the conference’s Twitter feed). They obtained data from the registrars office and mapped it out to usage data of various library services for undergraduate […] Lire la suite

These links were all tabs on my browser I had intended to read today but productive work got in the way. I’m pasting them here so that I can read them on the train this evening…  AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/  Guide de gestion d’un projet de numérisation http://www.crepuq.qc.ca/IMG/pdf/Guide_de_gestion_d_un_projet_de_numerisation_-_Juillet_2014.pdf  Digital legal deposit […] Lire la suite

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The New Media Corporation (NMC), in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover, and ETH-Bibliothek Zurich, announces the publication of the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition (PDF, 56 pages). This report outlines the technicological changes as well as the solvable, difficult and wicked challenges facing libraries in the next 5+ […] Lire la suite

This is a worksheet I prepared for a presentation about creating table of contents in MS Word. The structured text is below, but you can also use these versions : – Using MS Word (2007) with Style (PDF) – Using MS Word (2007) with Style (.doc) Using microsoft word with style Outline Creating a table of […] Lire la suite

A note from the IP Watch service indicates that Poland’s parliament is considering a bill to require that higher education institutions use plagiarism detection software in theses. Lire la suite

Happening right now is the 6th International Integrity & Plagiarism Conference in the UK. For a summary of day 1, go to PlagiarismToday.com for a summary of the first day. Lire la suite

Two resources of interest on apps for kids: – this great article from MindShift: Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers (this is a radio station in California that has an education K-12 blog) – Also, see the Edululu website, from the great people at TFO, the French-language public broadcaster in […] Lire la suite

I’ve recently watched a great video about paraphrasing from the Lehman College’s Leonard Lief Library, located via Sheila Webber: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6T2lZ51iFI&w=560&h=315] Another colleague of mine has been trying to create their own plagiarism / citation videos in French using simple tools, like a voice over of a presentation. The videos are interesting but the sound […] Lire la suite