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Fantasy Sports and Real Information Literacy

Check out Paul Waelchli’s article in the January 2008 issue of C&RL News in which he expands on his blog posts about information literacy and fantasy football. Librarians’ Sport of Choice: Teaching Information Literacy through Fantasy Football “Librarians want students to effectively identify and evaluate information and make decisions based upon what they discover. These are just [...]

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14.03.2008 00:20:19 - The Shifted Librarian

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Still Time to Win a Wii!

3 days left to win a Wii! Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian Just a reminder that you still have three days to make a donation to LIShost and win a Nintendo Wii! More info here. No Tags

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13.03.2008 10:45:31 - The Shifted Librarian

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Links to Presentations

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, but I’ve had the pleasure of giving a flurry of presentations that I promised attendees I’d link to from here. I love that the Illinois educators I spoke to at the end of February were just as enthusiastic as the Dutch librarians who attended my presentations in the [...]

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13.03.2008 10:45:31 - The Shifted Librarian

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Caching in on Gaming in Libraries

One of my favorite things about going to conferences is getting to meet and talk with people I normally wouldn’t get to know. I had another such experience at Midwinter when I met Leslie Morgan, First Year Experience/Education Librarian with the University of Notre Dame’s Libraries. Last year, she received the Outstanding New Librarian Award [...]

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13.03.2008 10:45:31 - The Shifted Librarian

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Help a Researcher Study Media Literacy

If you can help with the following request, please contact Sarah directly. Thanks! “I am curious if anyone knows of research (informal and formal) going on with undergraduates and media literacy. I’d like to hear about projects that look at usability and interface design and also any projects that measure visual or media literacy competencies. [...]

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09.03.2008 03:50:16 - The Shifted Librarian

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Dance Your Fines Away

Last year, I noted a librarian who waives the fines of patrons who play DDR against her. This year, the Wadleigh Memorial Library makes it an official part of its Patron Appreciation Day. Library Patrons Try to Dance Away Late Fees at Video Game Competition “Library users with unpaid fines had a chance to redeem themselves Thursday [...]

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09.03.2008 03:50:16 - The Shifted Librarian

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Mutating Libraries

Slate has an interesting slideshow with the slightly misleading title Borrowed Time: How Do You Build a Public Library in the Age of Google. I say misleading, only because the author literally means “build,” as in physical building. It doesn’t take into account staff or any web-based services at all, so why even mention Google? [...]

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28.02.2008 19:15:42 - The Shifted Librarian

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What Do Games Have to Do with Literacy?

I’ve been telling everyone who will listen about Paul Waelchli’s work mapping the ACRL Information Literacy Standards to skills used to play popular videogames. I’ve been waiting for someone to do the same thing for school libraries, and now we have our first step towards that goal because Brian Mayer has mapped New York State’s [...]

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20.02.2008 18:36:12 - The Shifted Librarian

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Lots of Happenings in LibraryLand

Superpatron Ed Vielmetti is speculating that Ann Arbor District Library might be getting ready to connect Twitter and the Library. Not that I’m putting any pressure on AADL, but if anyone was going to do it, I’d expect it to be them. “Once upon a time I built a ‘superpatronbot‘ that searched the AADL catalog via [...]

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19.02.2008 11:20:34 - The Shifted Librarian

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Syracuse Library Game Lab Gets Funding from Gaylord

Shout out to Gaylordg for helping get this project off the ground. Professor receives grant to bring gaming to libraries, other campuses “[Scott] Nicholson, an associate professor in the School of Information Studies, recently received a $5,000 grant from Gaylord Brothers, a library supply company located in Syracuse, to begin building a portable library game lab. Money [...]

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16.02.2008 01:20:23 - The Shifted Librarian

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Fantasy Sports and Real Information Literacy

Still Time to Win a Wii!

Links to Presentations

Caching in on Gaming in Libraries

Help a Researcher Study Media Literacy

Dance Your Fines Away

Mutating Libraries

What Do Games Have to Do with Literacy?

Lots of Happenings in LibraryLand

Syracuse Library Game Lab Gets Funding from Gaylord

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