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Episode 83: Teaching Students to Be Smartphone-Literate – Tech Therapy – The Chronicle of Higher Education [http://chronicle.com/]

Episode 83: Teaching Students to Be Smartphone-Literate – Tech Therapy – The Chronicle of Higher Education [http://chronicle.com/].

This sounds worth listening to.

#Jobs: TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LIBRARIAN (SR. ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN) – SUNY Oneonta

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LIBRARIAN (SR. ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN)

  

Category:

Faculty

Department:

(JG 301) Library

Locations:

Oneonta, NY

Posted:

Nov 02, ’10

Type:

Full-time

Ref. No.:

1048-D

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Job Description:

Duties: Under the direction of the Head of Library Technologies, assist in creating and supporting a feature-rich, intuitive technology environment for a diverse population of students, faculty, and staff. Participate in maintaining and developing the Library’s website consistent with campus web strategies. Provide support for new e-content, web programming, and assess technology trends to determine their application to and suitability for the Library. Serve as liaison to academic departments and participate in reference services.

Requirements:

Qualifications Required: Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited program at time of appointment;

Preferred: Aptitude for learning digital collection management, electronic resource management, and metadata standards; demonstrated understanding of principles and concepts of the library science profession; in-class or work experience creating a seamless user experience incorporating different and emerging platforms such as smartphones, web, e-readers, and tablets; experience working and serving diverse populations; ability to communicate clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing; ability to analyze and solve problems creatively and flexibly in a complex and rapidly changing environment; internship or work experience in an academic or special library.
 


Additional Information:

For other employment and regional opportunities, please visit our website at: http://www.oneonta.edu/admin/humres/employment.

SUNY Oneonta values a diverse college community. Please visit our website on diversity at: www.oneonta.edu/navigation/diversity.asp. Moreover, the College is an EEO/AA/ADA employer. Women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
 


Application Instructions:

Please upload letter of application, curriculum vitae, examples of web content created, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three professional references. Review of applications will begin immediately.


URL: www.oneonta.edu/library

Posted via email from Bill Drew – BabyBoomer Librarian

Twiiter very popular – Pew Internet


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Pew Internet: Twitter and status updating

“Twitter and status updating

2/12/2009 | MemoMemo | Amanda Lenhart Susannah Fox

In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online. Users may post messages about their status, their moods, their location and other tidbits on social networks and blogging sites, or on applications for sending out short messages to networks of friends like Twitter, Yammer and others.

As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.”

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New Cites and Insights from Walt Crawford

Walt Crawford just posted this message:

Cites & Insights 9:3, February 2009, is now available for downloading.

The 30-page issue is PDF, as usual. Three of the essays are available as HTML separates (using the links below). The first, which is also the longest, is available as a PDF separate–the inclusion of embedded Excel graphs within the document made HTML creation more cumbersome than I was willing to deal with.

This issue features the article versions of my two presentations for the OLA (Ontario Library Association) SuperConference, held just over a week ago in Toronto, Ontario. The first article is a longer version of my session “Shiny Toys or Useful Tools?”; the second article includes “My own take” as the first set of Tech Trends, and that was my initial commentary during the “Top Tech Trends” session.

Issue contents:

Making it Work: Shiny Toys or Useful Tools? (pages 1-9)

Blogs and wikis aren’t shiny new toys for libraries and librarians any more. They’ve moved from toys to tools. This article includes the only defensible definitions of blogs and wikis that I know of, some comments about planning library blogs, and sections on the state of liblogs and library blogs in December 2008. Included–for the first time in C&I–graphs, eight of them. (As noted, the link is to a 9-page PDF.)

Perspective: Tech Trends, Trends and Forecasts (pages 9-18)

It’s that time of year again–time for lots of trendy commentaries. For a change, I begin with my own set: The trends I see “as vital for thinking about libraries, technology and life.”That’s followed by tech trends and commentaries from nine different sources, six of them library-specific; two sets of general trends, one of them just full of trendy neologisms; and three sets of forecasts (short-term predictions), one of them coupled with a scorecard for 2008.

Interesting & Peculiar Products (pages 18-23)

One long commentary on “budget” high-end audio systems and “the rule of 10,” plus comments on seven products (or groups of products) and seven editors’ choices and group reviews.

Trends & Quick Takes (pages 23-29)

Four longer commentaries and six quicker takes.

My Back Pages (pages 29-30)

Four brief commentaries.

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Moving Wireless Libraries blog

I have exported all of the posts from my Wireless Libraries blog to my Babyboomer Librarian Blog. You will find them under the tag of Wireless Libraries Blog. I will delete all of the posts except a redirect to BabyBoomer Librarian tag Wireless Libraries Blog.

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