Research: It Starts with a Feeling | Inside Higher Ed

I have been struggling with a couple of things. One is what to do with this blog. There are few things worse than a stale blog, and this blog certainly is stale. As I have noted before, I started this blog to address communications to students when I was teaching multiple courses at MCTC. Now, I am only teaching one course per semester, so I no longer have that same need. So, I could just kill this blog. And I still might.

The other thing I was struggling with was what to do with this article:  Research: It Starts with a Feeling | Inside Higher Ed. I think this is an important article for students to read. I have struggled this semester to get my students to move beyond "I think.." and "I feel..." statements to backing them up with some evidence. To move from opinion to opinion, but backed up with the thoughts, the scholarship, of others. To move beyond the superficial, the anecdote, to see that as an example, as a metaphor, for a broader concept and to engage with that material in a way that is introspective and meaningful and building a scholarly discourse. So, I decided to link to that article here and blog about it.

Now I hope I remember that it's here.

Open Access Presentation

Nancy Sims to speak about open access publishing model

 

The University of St. Thomas libraries are pleased to host an event with Nancy Sims, who will speak about the issues and challenges of the open access publishing movement, which has the potential of increasing the visibility, access to and sharing of faculty scholarly research.

 

Nancy is the Copyright Program Librarian at the University  of Minnesota libraries with a JD from the University of Michigan Law School, and an MLIS from Rutgers University.   She says that her job is not to be the “copyright police” on her campus, but to help individuals and groups throughout the University community to understand issues surrounding copyright and scholarly communication.  Nancy says that she is fascinated by copyright law in all of its aspects, and in particular, how individuals construct understandings of copyright as it relates to their own scholarly, artistic, professional, personal, cultural, and communicative activities. 

 

She has published articles and presented at conferences about copyright issues, technology, and emerging forms of scholarship.

 

Nancy Sims’ presentation and question and answer period will be in McNeely Hall 100 from 3:00 – 4:30 on Thursday, December 13^th  This event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served. 

 

You will find a map to McNeely Hall here.

 

If you have any questions please let me know.

Andrea Koeppe

St. Thomas

What do I do with this blog?

Okay, this blog has been pretty much idle since I stopped teaching multiple classes in a single semester at MCTC. I created this blog so I could share the same information with students across several online classes, and now I don't need to do that anymore. So, now I'm grappling with what to do with this blog space. Do I keep it and work on writing pithy commentary on some professional topic on some kind of regular basis? Do I note it as closed until further notice? Do I morph it into more of a personal/professional reflection blog?

For now, I am undecided. I will leave this here for now. For those of you who stumble upon this blog space, that's why it looks relatively untended. Because it is. For now.

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PHDI Fall Portfolio Show

The PHDI Fall Portfolio Show entitled [12] Elements featuring the fine work of 12 PHDI graduating students.

The show runs from 11/29 - 12/3 at the Vine Arts Center in the Ivy Building for the Arts 2637 27th Avenue South.

Things kick off this evening with an Industry Preview Night from 6:00 - 9:00

Regular Gallery Hours from 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm Wed 11/30, Thursday 12/1, Friday 12/2 and Saturday 12/3 from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

We have another Reception planned for Thursday 12/1 from 6:00 - 9:00.

Your presence and support of the students and their fine efforts will be greatly appreciated.

For more information and to preview the students' work go to:

http://www.mctcphotoportfolioshow.com/ (site designed by MCTC Web Design student Malcolm Browne)

additional info can be found at:

http://www.minneapolis.edu/About-Us/News/Nov-2011/2011-11-16-phdi-portfolio-show

Speed Networking

OIF Blog » Registration open for “Intellectual Freedom across the Globe” webinars

Pricing for these webinars is pretty reasonable, and there is a free option as well. I encourage you to participate.

OIF Blog » Registration open for “Intellectual Freedom across the Globe” webinars

Hard Choices: Do Libraries Really Destroy Books? : Monkey See : NPR

What do you think about weeding? Does it cause you physical pain to think of tossing out a book? Does it feel cathartic to get the old stuff outta there?

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The Book of Life: Write Your Own Megillah

From ha-Safran, the list for Jewish Library people:

Hi! I am pleased to announce that my podcast interview with blogger
Barbara Krasner about her NaNoWriMo-style writing project has now
been posted at

http://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/write-your-own-megillah.html.
Listen to the podcast to hear about this excellent event for Jewish
children's writers that will be taking place during Jewish Book Month
2011. Barbara blogs at The Whole Megillah and the writing project is
called Write Your Own Megillah.

Enjoy!

Heidi Estrin

Host, The Book of Life Podcast

The Book of Life: Write Your Own Megillah

Letters to a Young Librarian: Which Is It? Clothes Make the (Wo)Man or Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover?

How do you dress? Letters to a Young Librarian: Which Is It? Clothes Make the (Wo)Man or Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover?