Here at Kennesaw State, we in the Sturgis Library have just started a professional development reading group. Our first book was on neither librarianship nor education, nor even on leadership. It wasn’t one of the year’s hot new books, either. … Continue reading
Cmap: Free and easy tool for concept mapping I was wrong; it happens sometimes. I have avoided trying out Cmap for years because I assumed that something developed at an Institute for Human and Machine Cognition would be arcane, hard … Continue reading
Knowledge maps fascinate me. I started out repelled by certain visual representations of information in my first career (in international development); I just detested a particular working paper of one important organization which had as its cover design a project … Continue reading
Two hours before I left for two weeks in France, I acquired a new Android tablet. Unbeknownst to me, my husband had purchased his first iPod the day before and decided to take neither his old Android nor his laptop … Continue reading
We haven’t mentioned the role of devices in PKM much. In my case, I want to be able to run my PKM applications, but I also have to have a mobile machine on which I can demonstrate these programs … Continue reading
This is my first fall semester as an academic librarian (I was a special librarian for about fifteen years, though I worked mainly in institutes in universities). Therefore it’s my first time meeting and teaching large numbers of beginning graduate … Continue reading