Tag: asist08
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ASIST08: Evaluating E-Reference: Transforming Digital Reference through Research and Evaluation
There are a lot of sessions at ASIS&T (and probably most conferences) with fairly impregnable titles. I’ve found myself sitting in sessions which were about something very different than I thought. But this session title is pretty straightforward: It was all about evaluating virtual reference services. Marie Radford (Rutgers University) and Lynn Connaway (OCLC) spoke…
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ASIST08: My So-Called Life on the Web
(But first, an aside about conference internet access: It is crappy. And I’m a poor graduate student who can’t afford to spend an obscene amount of money everyday for a decent connection. There is free “access” in some parts of the conference hotel, but it goes in and out like crazy and it’s not available…
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ASIST08: Tagging as a Communication Device
The second session I attended yesterday dealt with tagging, another subject I’ve been drawn to during my year in library school. Heather Pfeiffer of New Mexico State University gave an overview of ontology building. She used the framework of language—syntax, semantics, and pragmatics—to talk about how we construct ontological frameworks, and she placed tagging within…
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ASIST08: Credibility and Authority of Information in Learning Environments
I was up bright and early this morning for the first session, and am so, so grateful I’m staying in the conference hotel. It just makes life so much easier. This morning’s session (well, one of the several) was on information literacy and how students judge credibility when they’re researching, whether it’s for school or…
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ASIST08: Day One
Attending a conference where there are people you know is a million times better than one where you don’t. I’m a shy person (shocker!) so without a liaison or two to introduce me to new people, the sad truth is a probably won’t meet new people. And I will wander around awkward and alone until…