Use it or Lose It: The MLA Bibliography Database

Use it or Lose It: The MLA Bibliography Database (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) In “Understanding the Economic Burden of Scholarly Publishing,” Cathy N. Davidson makes the case for preserving traditional university presses. If scholarly publication was financially lucrative, she points out, then there wouldn’t be university presses to subsidize the cost of producing monographs. She sees the…

Georgia Conference on Information Literacy

From the Call for Papers: [W]orkshops and presentations that address the following themes and issues: Strategies for teaching information literacy to students and/or faculty across the curriculum Empirical studies on the effect of information literacy initiatives on student retention and/or learning Learning communities and information literacy Creating teaching partnerships between reference librarians and instructors What…

My Alternate Life

My Alternate Life (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) My colleague Lee McClain recently published My Alternate Life, a young adult book that features an amazing computer game that lets adopted children live the life they lost when their birth mothers gave them up for adoption. If you pass by my office door this time of year, you might…