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2011 Library Technology Conference [Review], Anne Shelley
2011 Library Technology Conference [Review], Anne Shelley
Anne Shelley
This review evaluates the 2011 Library Technology Conference.
Intellectual Property And Its Alternatives: Incentives, Innovation And Ideology, Michael B. Mcnally
Intellectual Property And Its Alternatives: Incentives, Innovation And Ideology, Michael B. Mcnally
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This dissertation examines the ability of intellectual property and its alternatives to both facilitate and impede innovation. The thesis begins by positing that a more detailed and nuanced understanding of alternatives to intellectual property is required so that such alternatives can be effectively used to mitigate the problems of the expansionary intellectual property regime. The thesis is that substantive alternatives to intellectual property utilize a broader range of incentive structures to encourage the production and distribution of intellectual goods, facilitate greater access to such goods and their informational content and engender innovative outcomes that go beyond the narrow, instrumentalist goals …
The Punk Library: Developing Library Instruction In The Mobile Age, Amy E. Vecchione
The Punk Library: Developing Library Instruction In The Mobile Age, Amy E. Vecchione
Amy E. Vecchione
Do you teach workshops at your public library? Do you teach middle school students who just want to use Google? Do you teach college level information literacy? If you said yes to any of those questions, this workshop is for you. The material presented in this workshop will help guide you towards new ideas for instruction that use active learning and constructivist principles, particularly how they apply to mobile devices and mobile learning. We’ll discuss how to adapt instruction to the new culture of learning.
Library Instruction In A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning, Laurie Alexander, Doreen R. Bradley
Library Instruction In A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning, Laurie Alexander, Doreen R. Bradley
LOEX Conference Proceedings 2010
As more information becomes available electronically and teaching and learning takes place literally anywhere, we are presented with opportunities to expand not only the types of instructional services we offer, but the contexts within which we frame those services. At the University of Michigan Library, we are building on our core values by deploying new strategies to innovate instruction. Examples include creating and redefining positions, and developing an instruction committee structure to guide us through the major questions facing us today. This session will explore these strategies and the leadership roles in developing and implementing the future of library instruction.