Sign up for Spring Library Sessions: We are ready to reserve library sessions for your spring classes.

Playing with the Enemy: Author Gary Moore will be signing books and speaking on 12/2.

Arab Heritage Month Podcast: Podcast from this week’s event is available.

Citing Sources in APA Video : New video tutorial on APA Style.

CCSSE Report: Engage Students !: Thought that this was worth sharing.

Boston College will STOP offering student email accounts (oh, the irony): We just started email and Boston College is ending it.

Spring 2009 Events: We have released our 2009 Schedule of events. We hope you’ll incorporate these into your spring classes where appropriate.

Citing Sources in Speeches: A new online video to help students cite sources in presentations. This is aimed at COM 103 courses, but could also be useful for other classes.

We’ll Miss You Studs Terkel: A short blog post about the late Chicago legend, Studs Terkel.

Sun-Times Insert Commemorating Obama’s Election: I thought that this was worth sharing since it was so difficult to find in print.

Office of the President-elect: I thought that this was interesting. Sort of a preview of coming attractions or something.

Librarians propose new credibility-based search tool: This was a short piece from the Chronicle that I wanted to share.

Gates Foundation Sending Some Love to Community Colleges

Talk to you on Google?

This Week’s Web sites from LII.org

• Food for Fines
• Playing with the Enemy
• 100 Students Face an Inconvenient Truth
• Grant Park, Yesterday & Tonight
• U of I’s Supercomputer, Power Hunger, and Sustainability
• Community Colleges, Eager to Prove Their Worth, Develop Voluntary Standards of Performance
• Obama on Higher Ed

Here’s this week’s new LII Web sites.

This is something new that I am trying. For the last 6 or 7 years, I’ve sent around a weekly email containing useful Web sites and library notes. I’ve decided to add these notes to this blog and add some highlights via video.

Here are this week’s notes:
1) The Library will be closed November 1
2) Podcast: The Autism Spectrum: The Gifts We ShareVisit our News Blog for more information
3) Pumpkin final: Horton Buys Victory
4) An Inconvenient Truth Movie Showing, November 6th, 12:30pm
You can view the list of Web sites at this week’s LII page.

We have just made a new video available aimed at instructors who use the classic appeals, Ethos, Logos, & Pathos when teaching rhetorical argument: Persuasive Appeals: Defining Ethos, Logos, & Pathos.

I have put together this short tutorial about taking an RSS feed and using our Feed2JS feed parser and incorporating it into BlackBoard version 8. You can learn more about our Feed Parser here: Feed Parser help page.

The library is happy to announce a new Web site that we have created in collaboration with our communications department: Information Literacy General Education Expectations and Resources.

A few weeks ago, Larry and I did a presentation at the 2008 Computers in Libraries conference about our Google Maps/Second Life project. We have put our slides on slideshare.

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We are just finishing up our Malcolm X Map Project. This is a pretty cool way to distribute student work. If you are a second life resident, you can also visit our SL MX Exhibit.

I have been trying out Netvibes new public aggregator page, here: MVCC Netvibes Aggregator Page. This could be a way to create a resource to keep people in touch with differenct info resources and information created on campus.