Wanderer

Monday, August 2, 2010

Games available at UIUC Learning Commons

We recently began offering public gaming, with Wii, XBox & PlayStation consoles & controllers available for use in the UGL (you can check out games from UGL too!)

We circulate a lot of small technology as well -- MP3 players, GPS, TI-89 graphing calculators, USB thumb drives, digital cameras & video cameras, and so much more.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Conference Internet Librarian 2010

October 25 – 27, 2010
Monterey, CA
http://www.infotoday.com/il2010/day.asp?day=Monday#TrackD
A103 – Search Discovery Tools
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Greg Notess, Reference Team Leader, Montana State University
The latest buzz word in metasearching of library resources is "discovery." Many libraries are moving to discovery tools like Summon, Primo, and World-Cat Local to enable easier and more comprehensive searching of library resources. Explore the current state of the art in these discovery tools, and discover where they work well along with their gaps and search failures.

D105 – Ninging It
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Miami University
How do you engage students with information literacy content throughout a 3-credit hour semester course? Six librarians teaching different sections of a course in the Interactive Media Studies department bypassed institution-supported course management software. Instead, instructors chose Ning, a free site that allows individuals to create public or private social networks. Content of each network was customized to meet each section’s individual learning outcomes. This presentation describes how instructors engaged students in information literacy concepts utilizing tools such as Twitter, RSS feeds, blogs, and podcasts via Ning. Speakers give specific examples of how the tools enhanced student learning, the lessons learned, and challenges faced along the way.