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The battle of Britain’s libraries
This article by Stuart Jeffries examines some of the challenges that public libraries are facing in the U.K.: “Coffee shops, gigs, free cinema tickets, flashy architecture . . . is this the future of our libraries? Stuart Jeffries on government plans to shake things up – and the people standing in their way.”
LibQUAL Library Survey
The Libraries Need Your Feedback!
The Dalhousie Libraries are constantly changing to meet the needs of our users—but we can’t do it without you.
From March 1 – 19 the Libraries are running a campus-wide online survey to find out what your perceptions and expectations are of our services. Some of you may have done the LibQUAL+ survey in 2007—this time we’re running a shorter version called LibQUAL+ Lite, which should take no more than 8 minutes to complete. Include your email and you could win one of many prizes, including a $100 certificate for dinner at It’s All Greek To Me.
Link directly to our survey now at:
http://www.libqual.org/survey/RWSTJQ82BUL53VCY
Some of the changes we’ve made as a direct result of responses to our previous surveys can be seen on our “We Hear You” webpage at http://www.library.dal.ca/News/WeHearYou
The Dalhousie Libraries thank you for taking the time to complete our survey—your responses are invaluable to us!
Students’ writing procrastination – not anymore!
Even under the best of circumstances, the process of writing can be challenging for both professional and novice writers alike. For novice writers such as university students, the difficulties associated with writing can be further exacerbated when it is combined with their tendency to procrastinate and delay starting a paper till the night before it is due. Unfortunately, it seems that regardless of what an instructor may say or do, many students still inevitably get caught in an endless loop of continuous research and debilitating procrastination, to the point of total paralysis. So how can we, as educators, help our students (and ourselves) break out of this loop and start working on their research papers earlier and more consistently?
This post will describe two different solutions (policy-centric and system-centric) that might help some students overcome their tendencies to procrastinate on large writing assignments.
The post is available at http://anatoliygruzd.com/home/?p=94
~Anatoliy Gruzd
The future of the Internet: Will Google make us stupid?
This study conducted by Pew Internet and Elon University asked internet experts and stakeholders to react to two opposing statements about the direction and impact of the internet 10 years from now.