Tuesday, January 1, 2008

The LM_NET Wiki

The LM_NET Wiki
Check out this resource to find and share: "files, images, lessons, handouts, rubrics, presentations, etc.... Let us demonstrate how teacher-librarians can use new landscapes to create serious professional tools."

How much is your library worth?

I'm catching up on reading my LMNET Select posts and came across this fun link:

http://www.libraryweb.org/libraryroi.html

“Young people respond to appropriate structure, positive relationships, and a sense of accomplishment

The Institute of Museum and Library Services issues report. Check it out.

"The age of books not quite over yet"

"Young adults using libraries more to get information to solve their problems" accordring to a joint study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Check out this Associated Press article published in the 31 December 2007 Syracuse POST STANDARD.

"Young adults are the heaviest users of public libraries despite the ease with which they can access a wealth of information over the Internet from the comforts of their homes, according to a new study. That's especially true for those who had questions related to health conditions, job training, government benefits and other problems.. Twenty-one percent of Americans age 18 to 30 with about 12 percent among the general adult population with problems to solve."

"Internet opens elite colleges to everyone"

Associated Press article in the 31 December 2007 Syracuse POST STANDARD: A5. "Internet opens elite colleges to everyone" by Justin Pope.
Take a look at MIT's OpenCourseWare which "makes virtually all the school's courses available online for free -- lecture notes, readings, tests and often video lectures.

"Female bosses expected to be more understanding"

Check out this research article by Syracuse University Whitman School of Management Professor, Kristin Byron published in the JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 2007 Nov. 24 issue. http://www.livescience.com/health/071220-female-bosses.html
Check out Professor Byron's other research at: http://www2.whitman.syr.edu/Directory/showInfo.aspx?id=249