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Greetings From Cala: Christian Librarians In Africa, Ephraim Mudave Jan 2013

Greetings From Cala: Christian Librarians In Africa, Ephraim Mudave

The Christian Librarian

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Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library Becomes A Reality, Rodney Birch, Jane Scott Jan 2013

Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library Becomes A Reality, Rodney Birch, Jane Scott

The Christian Librarian

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The Importance Of Digitization In Teaching-Oriented University And College Libraries, Craighton Hippenhammer Jan 2013

The Importance Of Digitization In Teaching-Oriented University And College Libraries, Craighton Hippenhammer

The Christian Librarian

An increasing number of university and college libraries have started digitization programs, and there are good reasons why they are doing so. First, we are in the middle of revolutionary change as to how ideas get published and distributed. Over 50 percent of scholarly publishing has gone digital, and over 20 percent has gone open access. Governments worldwide are beginning to require that tax-supported research be published in open access venues. Secondly, it is imperative that academic institutions increase their archives’ digital presence. Traditional approaches to preserving institutional histories are being lost because many archives continue to preserve only paper …


The Problem And Prospect Of Getting Information Literacy Into The Academy: Keynote Address For The Annual Conference Of The Association Of Christian Librarians, June 11, 2013, Tami Echavarria Robinson Jan 2013

The Problem And Prospect Of Getting Information Literacy Into The Academy: Keynote Address For The Annual Conference Of The Association Of Christian Librarians, June 11, 2013, Tami Echavarria Robinson

The Christian Librarian

ACL was most fortunate to listen to a distinguished thinker in the field of Information Literacy at the 2013 Annual Conference. William Badke, who hails from Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, is a librarian and a professor who has been thinking well about the conundrum of teaching and learning information literacy since 1985 when he began teaching this subject. He shared his most current thoughts about getting information literacy into the academy with the Association of Christian Librarians assembled at Point Loma Nazarene University on June 11, 2013.


Instructional Literacy: Acl 2013 Preconference With Char Booth, Becky Fisher Jan 2013

Instructional Literacy: Acl 2013 Preconference With Char Booth, Becky Fisher

The Christian Librarian

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God Be With You 'Til We Meet (And Eat ... And Greet ...) Again! Snapshots From Acl 2013, Deborah Mcconkey Jan 2013

God Be With You 'Til We Meet (And Eat ... And Greet ...) Again! Snapshots From Acl 2013, Deborah Mcconkey

The Christian Librarian

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Employing Pedagogical Imagination With Open Educational Resources, Rodney Birch, Jane Scott Jan 2013

Employing Pedagogical Imagination With Open Educational Resources, Rodney Birch, Jane Scott

The Christian Librarian

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Connecting The Gospel And Reality Via Fiction, Leanne Hardy Jan 2005

Connecting The Gospel And Reality Via Fiction, Leanne Hardy

The Christian Librarian

Despite the fact that last year The Purpose Driven Life outsold Harry Potter 5, other than a blip around the time of Mel Gibson's record breaking film The Passion of the Christ, there has been a steady decline in the number of Christian bookstores over the past two years. And yet religious books are big sellers. Popular fiction is strong. Evangelical publishers are moving beyond Christian versions of secular genres and even breaking new ground in some areas. Ray Blackston's Flabbergasted (Revell, 2003) pokes fun at Southern church culture, where singles rank churches according to which has the best pick …