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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
