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This Week in LIS - 24 August 2012
Headline of the Week: Role of Student Motivation (Part II)Last week the challenge was to think about ways that in our work and interactions with students we can help them embrace and increase their...
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This Week in LIS - 31 August 2012
Headline of the Week: Profile of Undergraduate StudentsA very interesting book showed up this week. It is the third of an inadvertent trilogy to which Arthur Levine has contributed that discusses...
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This Week in LIS - 7 September 2012
Headline of the Week: LIS Abuzz with Activity – Thank YouThe start of the school year comes with much preparation and simultaneously much discovery as the new students and new faculty arrive and join...
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This Week in LIS - 14 September 2012
Headline of the Week: “…One (Degree) in Liberal Arts…”This week’s Bloomberg Businessweek magazine features a provocative cover story entitled “Debt for Life.” Its subtitle claims it provides “The...
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This Week in LIS - 21 September 2012
Headline of the Week: Innovation from All QuartersThemes of innovation washed over me during this past week from a number of quarters. It was a busy week full of challenges to work through and yet the...
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This Week in LIS - 28 September 2012
Headline of the Week: Makers and RobotsA couple of interesting articles captured my attention this week in Bloomberg’s Businessweek. Both of them provide evidence in support of the idea that the...
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This Week in LIS - 5 October 2012
Headline of the Week: “…Library is Strongest and Most Trusted Partner…”This past week I had the opportunity to prepare a writeup for a Luther alumni Distinguished Contribution Award (DSA) for an...
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This Week in LIS - 12 October 2012
Headline of the Week: Support HeroesI earned my support stripes in my first management job. I managed what was referred to as the “screen team.” It was a level 2.5 support function of software...
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This Week in LIS - 19 October 2012
Headline of the Week: Good Work – Well DoneThe LIS Annual Report for the academic year 2011-12 has been finalized and linked from the LIS website (LIS Annual Report 2011-12). It captures the good work...
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This Week in LIS - 26 October 2012
Headline of the Week: Opportunity to Share with the Board of RegentsIn July, President Torgerson presented an opportunity for LIS to tell some of their story to the Board of Regents when they come in...
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This Week in LIS - 2 November 2012
Headline of the Week: “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you.”Forgive my mixing of Watsons. The quote above is attributed to one discoverer of the telephone. IBM’s Jeopardy playing Watson was...
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This Week in LIS - 9 November 2012
Headline of the Week: QualityI have been thinking a great deal about quality. I had several days in the woods this past week sitting and watching… and thinking. We have a number of important systems...
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This Week in LIS - 16 November 2012
Headline of the Week: Google (Norse) Docs Workshops AvailableGoogle (Norse) Docs has been integrated with Katie for the past couple of years and, beginning Spring 2013 with the new version of Katie,...
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This Week in LIS - 21 November 2012
Headline of the Week: Online Courses “AND” Liberal Arts CollegesThis past summer Luther College experimented with online courses. Recently there was a readout on that experience shared at a faculty...
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This Week in LIS - 30 November 2012
Headline of the Week: Social ReadingI attend the New Faculty Meetings hosted by the Dean’s Office. One motivation is to get to know and build relationships with the new faculty. My participation...
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This Week in LIS - 7 December 2012
Headline of the Week: Business Model for MOOCsUdacity and Coursera are startup firms that provide means/services to deliver MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses. Udacity works with individual professors...
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This Week in LIS - 14 December 2012
Headline of the Week: Introductory Textbooks Nearly Free?The Management Information Systems text available through Flat World Knowledge (FWK) is great in my opinion. When I used it in my classes the...
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This Week in LIS - 21 December 2012
Headline of the Week: Watson for LibrariesThis week I came across another interesting piece on IBM’s Watson (Jeopardy playing fame). It was written by a colleague I’ve I had the pleasure of working...
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This Week in LIS - 4 January 2013
Headline of the Week: Exploring e-ReadingI want to encourage you to explore e-reading during J-Term. Our Innovative Services Librarian, Jennifer Rian, with help from other LIS collegues has put...
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This Week in LIS - 11 January 2013
Headline of the Week: Value of Walking the StacksI am glad that in Preus Library at Luther College the stacks are open to the community. I like it for many reasons. One that I was reminded of this week...
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