The Oxford Project

I just finished reading Denison, Iowa which is a great cultural and anthropological study of one American town.  It’s not just about the town, but it’s about us, as Americans as we move well into the 21st century and deal with things like the death of small towns, immigration, etc.  It is a great book [...]

Friday Levity: Book Autopsies

I just came across this great artwork by Brian Dettmer called Book Autopsies. He carves into books to create a 3-d sculpture of sorts. It kind of reminds me of a project that the University of Iowa did when I was at school there with their old card catalog cards called cARTalog. [...]

CRITIC – Evaluating Resources

My former classmate at Iowa, Anne Marie Gruber, recently posted an excellent worksheet on using the CRITIC method to evaluate resources on her library blog. On that blog post she links to a PDF document that is more in depth into how to use the CRITIC method. This method was refined by a [...]

Harry Potter and the education of students

I know this book is coming out tomorrow and as I expressed, I’m as excited about it as everyone else. This post is not going to contain any spoilers but rather explore the way that the book and other pop culture phenomenons have an impact on higher education. According to this article (which [...]

Flying

I’ve been back from my vacation to Iowa for a few days. But, as you may or may not know, catching up with emails as well as trying to accomplish some work takes a lot longer. For those of you who haven’t flown lately I should warn you that do it if you [...]