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Area Director’s notes, June 6, 2013

June 17, 2013 by Terry Simpkins

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

Present: Mary Backus, Terry Simpkins, Rebekah Irwin, Chris Norris, Jim Stuart, David Ludwig, Mike Roy and Doreen Bernier

Brief updates:

Proposed Joy Pile and Kellam Ayres, respectively, as writers for the Language Schools and Bread Loaf end-of-summer reports, pending confirmation with them. More →

Tags: agenda, Area Directors, Area Directors Notes, LIS Administration, meeting notes

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Area 51 notes – Apr. 25, 2013

May 13, 2013 by Terry Simpkins

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

Present: Terry Simpkins, Mary Backus, and Doreen Bernier
Guests: Bryan Carson, Joe Antonioli, Carrie Macfarlane, Joy Pile

The Language School task force joined us to discuss their proposal for providing curricular technology support for this summer’s Language School programs. More →

Tags: Area Directors Notes, Language Schools, LIS Administration, meeting notes

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Friday Links – May 10

May 10, 2013 by Terry Simpkins

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

An interesting visual representation of 105 of the most common metadata standards. More →

Tags: data visualization, metadata

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Friday Links – May 3

May 3, 2013 by Terry Simpkins

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

Makes you want to be an archivist!

Cowan, Alison Leigh. “Archivists Bringing Past Into Future Are Now Less Cloistered.” The New York Times, April 28, 2013, sec. N.Y. / Region.

How long can you work on making a routine task more efficient before you’re spending more time than you save? http://xkcd.com/1205/

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Friday Links – April 12, 2013

April 12, 2013 by Terry Simpkins

Categories: LIS Staff Interest, Middlebury Community Interest

The dark side of open-access publication… (Kolata, Gina. “Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too).” The New York Times, April 7, 2013)
The dark side of eTextbooks…(Streitfeld, David. “CourseSmart E-Textbooks Track Students’ Progress for Teachers.” The New York Times, April 8, 2013)
A new service from Readability… (Mullen, Lincoln. “ProfHacker: Easy E-Books from Your Readlist.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8, 2013)