Published by
Michelle on
July 31, 2009 in
Continuing Education, General, Instruction and School Libraries.
Tags: Academic Libraries, communicating, math, model content, music, P-12, reading, review, science, social studies, standards, writing.
An eight-city tour of the state begins Monday, Aug. 10 to listen to feedback from parents and community members on the first sets of revised draft P-12 Colorado Academic Standards in the four social studies content areas. These content areas include civics, economics, geography and history and will replace the current K-12 Colorado Model Content Standards.
Participants will also have the opportunity to review the new expectations in personal financial literacy which are embedded in the revised economics and mathematics standards.
The state-mandated review of all 13 content areas has been divided into three phases.
Continue reading ‘Eight-City Tour to Collect Feedback on New, Draft P-12 Colorado Academic Standards in Social Studies’
Out of 73 institutions, Colorado has only 11 libraries that have completed the 2008 Academic Libraries Survey. This is far from the 85% required to close the survey.
How can we discuss the value of academic libraries if we don’t have basic data about outlets, staff, collections, services, and expenditures?
Data collection for the 2008 Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) began on November 5, 2008 and ends on February 25, 2009.
Please register, then enter and lock your data as soon as possible on the ALS Web site at http://surveys.nces.ed.gov/libraries/als
Published by
nicolle on
December 18, 2008 in
Reference Services.
Tags: 60-Second Survey, Academic Libraries, institutional libraries, library research, Library Research Service, Public Libraries, reference, school libraries, Special Libraries, survey, virtual reference.
How critical is reference to the survival of libraries? Should the library profession do more to promote reference services? In less than a minute you can tell us what you think about reference services.
Let us know what you think at: http://surveys.lrs.org/respond.php?sid=50
Why This Topic
The questions on this survey were inspired by a discussion on a national listerv for virtual reference librarians. It was a fascinating discussion with varied opinions being expressed on everything from usage to promotion. Of course, LRS staff were curious about what the folks in library land thought about these issues. So, here is the second LRS 60-Second Survey: Reference Service – Where is it Going?
About 60-Second Surveys
The 60-second surveys are intended to capture respondents’ gut-reactions to questions about narrowly defined, high-interest topics. Taking less than a minute of the respondent’s time, these are truly quickie surveys. This is not a scientific study, but rather a reader poll-style survey (think online magazine survey) that “takes the temperature” of a very specific topic.
The library at Colorado State University-Pueblo is one of twenty libraries nationwide selected to host the “John Adams Unbound” exhibit sponsored by the American Library Association, the Boston Public Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The exhibit was created by the Boston Public Library to showcase the private library of John Adams which is housed in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the library. The exhibit tour will bring the contents of this historic library to a national audience.
More information about the exhibit is available at: http://www.johnadamslibrary.org/explore/exhibition/
Lots of networking and interesting sessions at the Denver Convention Center, which worked out to be a great venue. Interesting to listen to Andrew Romanoff, Colorado Speaker of the House. He spoke about the necessity to get the word out on Referendum C, the first step to undo the damage that Taber is causing in Colorado. Although information is not yet ready to be distributed, he stated, it will be forthcoming for those who are interested in participating.
Deans, Directors of libraries, librarians, university and college leaders, and other interested persons will be gathering at the Colorado Convention Center on June 3rd to discuss “The Changing Face of Higher Education”. Sessions include “The Role of the Academic Library in Institutional Reorganization”, the “Library as Place”, “Library Partnerships/Sharing Resources”, “Changes in Scholarly Communication”, and “Information Literacy”. The importance of meeting with colleagues from across the state on issues extremely relevant to all makes this a conference that no one should miss.
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