Academic librarians might be interested in checking out The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, the new peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. The official announcement notes that the journal  “seeks to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions. It therefore provides
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The LOTW (LOEX of the West) Library Instruction Conference was held at Mount Royal University in Calgary in early June. It was a great conference, filled with many practical ideas for enhancing academic library instruction. I’m delighted to see that many of the conference presentations and supporting material have been posted on the web site
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Thanks to the ever-helpful Peter Scott for blogging the latest edition of Research Library Issues, No. 269 (April 2010): Special Issue on Strategies for Opening Up Content. If you don’t have this site bookmarked, you might just want to.

Here’s a helpful primer on Scholarly Communication from the University of Toronto. “Scholarly communications covers a broad range of activities, including the discovery, collection, organization, evaluation, interpretation and preservation of primary and other sources of information, and the publication and dissemination of scholarly research.”

The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) released its 2009 Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology in October.1 There are a number of interesting results, although some are hardly surprising. There are also a number of implications for libraries. Most students use the library website (94.6%) with median use being weekly (p.13. That is
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