The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
A college paper she had helped write as part of a group project while pursuing an MBA was available on at least five websites that sell research papers to students. Rieboldt, who graduated last year from the University of Pho (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut (Read More)
Information Literacy Weblog:
The latest issue of Reference Services Review volume 37 issue 4 includes the following article:- Anna Marie Johnson, Claudene Sproles, Latisha Reynolds "Library instruction and information literacy, 2008" pp. 463-553 (This is (Read More)
LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News:
Since I thought about this observation while getting into my car to go to dinner the other evening, I haven’t been able to shake it out of my system. I’m hoping that this blog entry will be read by individuals who can shed s (Read More)
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Author : Steven MagillLearning violin can be done in a variety of ways It is said that violin is easy to learn but it is hard to master It takes an ample amount of knowledge, skill and determination to perfect the right mus (Read More)
Submitted by Motown_Terri
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Author : Steven MagillViolin is one classic musical instrument that is rarely learned by many music enthusiasts Although learning to play to violin is an easy task, mastering it is otherwise Mastering violin takes skill and (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
The best time to start saving for a child’s college education is as soon as Mommy is pregnant. The best way to do it is as a family, with the children contributing what they can. A whopping 90 percent of graduating high schoo (Read More)
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A trio of University of Oregon students: Brian McAndrew, Jamie Slade and Michael Bishon, also known as Supwitchugirl, have come into the limelight recently with a music video they produced and released on YouTube singing (and (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
The cosmopolitanism of curricula at America' best liberal arts colleges is in tune with the wonderful diversity of student life. The great advantage of our cosmopolitan liberal arts education is that it allows students to exp (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
Modeled after a program at the University of Wisconsin, Check BAC (pronounced check back) allows student season-ticket holders who are ejected from a game for intoxication offenses to attend future games by submitting to bloo (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
Only 42 percent of black college students actually receive degrees, according to the latest statistics posted in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, and much of the focus of a national conference in Baltimore was on ho (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
For the eighth consecutive year, USC enrolled the highest number of foreign students of any U.S. university last year, a new report shows. USC, which recruits strongly in Asia, had 7,482 international students in the 2008-09 (Read More)
Information Literacy Weblog:
On October 26-27 we were happy to have a visit from Sophie Bury, from York University in Canada. Whilst she was here she gave a talk based on her research, for our Centre for Information Literacy Research: An Investigation of (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
In the past 30 years, coed college dormitories have gone from rare to routine, with nearly all students who live on campus now sharing housing with members of the opposite sex. But a study out today suggests that the shift ma (Read More)
Design for India:
Design Thinking and Action in India and elsewhere.Prof. M P RanjanThe month of November 2009 seems to be the Design Thinking month with so many events and discussions taking place on the subject all around the world. It sure (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
American universities are enrolling a new wave of Chinese undergraduates. While India was, for the eighth consecutive year, the leading country of origin for international students — sending 103,260 students, a 9 percent incr (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
The number of U.S. college students studying abroad – and the number of international students in the USA – are at all-time highs, show data released today. But those increases do not reflect the impact of the recent economic (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
Social-networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter can help community college students become more engaged in their academics, a report out today finds. But while large numbers of students say they use such tools in their d (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
Whenever she felt like a fish out of water, Wade could turn to her "posse" -- nine other girls who, like her, had been recruited from struggling Boston-area school districts and sent on full merit scholarship to the elite wom (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
This was a particularly tough year for Virginians seeking entry to William and Mary and several other prestigious public universities because of machinations in the admissions cycle that favored applicants from outside the st (Read More)