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Redefine your role as an academic librarian in a world of networked information!Future Teaching Roles for Academic Librarians helps you understand how the librarian can play a central role in the new university paradigm. In the past few years, the focus of higher education has begun to shift from the traditional, passive lecture-discussion where teachers talk and students listen to a new model that emphasizes student-centered, collaborative learning in all contexts, not just formal classroom situations. Academic libraries and librarians must adapt to meet the demands of this new educational motif or else fall behind.This book offers an overview of the kinds of library service that will be required, from helping students learn to use bibliographic databases to real-time online interactive information assistance--the cyber equivalent of the reference desk. You will learn practical techniques to facilitate information literacy and the principles of creating a seamless learning culture.One area in which libraries must provide new services is in helping students learn to manage the flood of available data. Though many students are familiar with the online universe, they don't know how to design artful information-seeking strategies either there or in the more traditional venues of printed books and journals, microfilm, and pamphlets. Librarians can teach skills beyond basic information retrieval, including evaluation, critical thinking, and building a successful research strategy. These skills are more crucial than ever, not just to help students write term papers, but to prepare them for the kind of jobs they will face in an information-based economy.Future Teaching Roles for Academic Librarians provides you with practical suggestions for transforming traditional library instruction, including: rethinking assumptions about students’needs and behavior designing courses for students at different levels making the transition to libraries without walls creating core resources to promote information literacy ensuring that library programs and collections are visible to users This vital guide offers college librarians and library administrators the specific techniques you need to create a seamless learning environment, take on new roles and challenges, and meet the needs of students in an era of networked information and instant access.

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... jai pu intervenir simplement, sans laisser de traces durables sur le terrain. Jeune encore, lartiste Marlene Creates signalait déjá en 1979 son intention de se démarquer des installations de terrassement monumentales de lépoque pour sintéresser, au confluent de lart et du monde naturel, á léphémère, á la petite échelle, au non monumental et au lieu, " pas tant comme endroit géographique, " écrit-elle, " que comme processus qui inclut la mémoire, une multiplicité de récits, lécologie, le langage et le savoir, tant vernaculaire que scientifique. " En palliant le caractère éphémère de ses interventions grâce aux techniques photographiques, elle a su trouver son public et créer une uvre hautement originale. Depuis près de quatre décennies, Creates sattarde avec sensibilité aux rapports entre lexpérience humaine et le monde naturel. Dès ses premières uvres, préservant les empreintes du corps humain sur le sol, et jusquá ses plus récentes explorations de poésie in situ dans la forêt boréale et de photographie comme médium actif, où elle laisse le ruissellement de leau sur lobjectif brouiller son autoportrait, Creates exerce sa grande vigilance écologique et culturelle pour nous amener á mieux comprendre le langage du monde naturel et les " lieux " que nous y occupons. Il est difficile de rendre compte en un seul volume dune carrière qui a préféré lacte á lartefact, le moment au monument. Or, sous la direction des commissaires-critiques Susan Gibson Garvey et Andrea Kunard, Lieux, sentiers et pauses propose au lecteur, en plus dune large gamme des uvres photographiques de Marlene Creates, un examen critique de sa démarche multidisciplinaire (assemblages, croquis de cartes-mémoire et poèmes sur vidéo) grâce aux essais de Gibson Garvey, de Kunard, de lhistorienne de lart Joan M. Schwartz, de lécrivain écologiste Robert Macfarlane et du poète Don McKay. Marlene Creates : Lieux, sentiers et pauses accompagne limportante rétrospective itinérante organisée par la galerie d'art Beaverbrook, en partenariat avec la Dalhousie Art Gallery. Après son vernissage á Fredericton en septembre 2017, lexposition visitera Halifax, Charlottetown, St. Johns et dautres villes du centre et de louest du Canada.

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The transition from the analogue to the digital age has radically changed our present. The global flow of data shapes social systems, but the circulation and processing of data does not seem to be linked to the reality of our lives. As Deutsche Bank's 'Artist of the Year', young Lebanese artist Caline Aoun (*1983) reveals how data manifests itself materially and how inseparable the real and the virtual world have become. For her, the permanent flood of images and data resembles 'noise' that dominates our lives. Instead of further intensifying this media noise, she lends it a material dimension in order to create new experiences, forms of silence, and empty spaces, and to show otherwise scarcely tangible connections. Text in English and German.

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