Category Archives: Service

The Library Web Site of the Future: thanks but no thanks.

February 18, 2009 – 2:10 pm

Steven J. Bell has a piece in the February 17 Inside Higher Ed titled, “The Library Web Site of the Future.” Since we’re currently in the early stages of completely overhauling our current web site, I read it with some interest. (Take note that, as of this reading, the comments are not particularly [...]

By Catherine | Also posted in Reference, SMC Library web redesign | Comments (2)

Dangers of being too helpful

December 13, 2008 – 10:42 am

I’d like to think that, if we worked hard at it, us reference and instruction librarians could almost work ourselves out of a job.  We’d teach students to be so good at not only finding information for themselves and evaluating it, but also learning new systems and new tools for themselves, so that they didn’t [...]

By Catherine | Also posted in IM, Reference | Comments (1)