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  • From a few weeks back

    This is one of the headlines that prompted me to archive and document what is happening: Also today the New Hampshire Governor has closed the schools until April 3rd.

  • Search History

    One of the core competencies that a librarian must possess is an understanding of how people search. For me this is difficult since I have often played the role of placer versus seeker. While I have not logged many hours at the reference desk, I have helped faculty, staff, and students navigate sophisticated, complex computer…

  • Boston University

    My week was pretty good. I am getting used to my new commute. It’s long, but not that bad because I am on the same bus for most of it. I think I am going to like working at BU. I ran into a friend who works at the law library and a new colleague asked me…

  • Ice Storm

  • A Reader in Taiwan

    Someone in Taiwan downloaded my presentation Migrating to the Open: Moving Scholarly Journals to the IR.  I hope they liked it.  I have to wonder why they were looking for this. Are they publishing a new journal?  Looks like a pretty happening place:

  • Context, Culture & the Classroom

    I was introduced to several new constructs this semester including Blooms Taxonomy, Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Assessment, and Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions. The latter I discovered doing a deep dive on Chapter 13 of Grassian and Kaplowitz, (2009, p. 251-6). I thought that the authors’ discussion of high context cultures vs. low context ones was very…

  • Technology Adoption Proposal: Google Scholar in the Law Library

      The University of New Hampshire School of Law Library has materials in print and in digital format on a wide variety of legal topics that reflect the academic offerings of the school. These include numerous specialized databases, electronic journal subscriptions both individually and through Serials Solution and scholarship created by the law school community…

  • More about this later…

    Video games that require “visual analysis” such as Tetris could be instrumental in alleviating the symptoms of PTSD, a study has found. http://www.piercepioneer.com/playing-tetris-can-prevent-the-brain-from-recalling-traumatic-memories-study/42985 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3152299/Could-playing-TETRIS-banish-bad-memories-Retro-Nintendo-game-reduces-risk-post-traumatic-stress-disorder.html

  • Health Information Literacy- Web Site Evaluation

    I evaluated the site http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/ phillipsSportsInjuryClinicEVAL (1) and the site http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/main.cfm phillipsOrthoInfoEVAL