Archive of ‘academic library’ category

13
Apr
2021

library cuts

categories: academic library

Million-dollar library budget cut hinders resource access, burdens librarians

The Middlebury College Libraries had its non-personnel budget cut by nearly a third for the 2021 fiscal year, resulting in reduced or delayed access to databases, journals and books, as well as an increasing reliance on interlibrary loan (ILL).

Other services were transitioned to a token system. In contrast to the previous unlimited access model, the college now pays for a finite supply of tokens that are used to purchase access to sources individually.

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more on libraries in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=academic+library

02
Apr
2021

CPSY 262-54 lib services and APA tutorial

categories: academic library, information literacy

Library Instruction delivered by Plamen Miltenoff, pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu

https://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/

CPSY 262-54 (2PM)

Dr. Rachel Grace,
Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy
320-308-4865 | B243 Education Building
rlgrace@stcloudstate.edu

My name is Plamen Miltenoff (https://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/) and I am the InforMedia Specialist with the SCSU Library (https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/free-tech-instruction/).

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LIBRARY INSTRUCTION – Library Services and APA intro

10 min

54 min

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How to search?

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2020/10/15/library-instruction-disability-middle-childhood/

30
Mar
2021

Academically Adrift

categories: academic library, collaboration and creativity, EDAD
This week we’re diving into measuring student growth in the company of a leading scholar.  On Thursday, April 1st, from 2-3 pm EDT, we’ll be joined by professor and dean Richard Arum, co-author of Academically Adrift (2011) and project lead for the Next Generation Undergraduate Success Measurement Project.
Richard Arum is dean of the School of Education and professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology, criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine.  He recently served as senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2013-2015; and director of the Education Research Program at the Social Science Research Council from 2006-2013, where he oversaw the development of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, a research consortium designed to conduct ongoing evaluation of the New York City public schools.
He is author of Judging School Discipline: A Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2013); coauthor of Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011); as well as coeditor of Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessment for the 21st Century (Jossey Bass, 2016), Improving Learning Environments: School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspectives (Stanford University Press, 2012), and Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study (Stanford University Press, 2007).  He received a Masters of Education in Teaching and Curriculum from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

To RSVP ahead of time, or to jump straight in at 2 pm ET this Thursday, click here:

https://shindig.com/login/event/arum

To find more information about the Future Trends Forum, including notes and recordings of all previous sessions, click here: http://forum.futureofeducation.us/.

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more on Future Trends by Bryan Alexander in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=future+trends

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