Edubeacon

Over the recent holidays I took time to investigate some library support tools and came across Libguides.  It appears to have been around for a couple of years and has gone under my radar.  Libguides isn’t free but on the other hand, it’s affordable if it works.  I’ve been building research guides for teachers for [...]

Next Monday Linda Angeloni from State Library of Victoria is coming to Mildura to do a workshop on their wonderful Ergo resource.  This is a great site to support individual students and teachers and I’m looking forward to going through it with her (Chaffey Secondary College – 4.00 pm) – just in case anyone does [...]

A recent post on Librarian.net drew my attention to the article Using Wikipedia to extend digital collections by University of Washington librarians, Carolyn Dunford and Ann Lally.  The digital collections in universities, state and public libraries and institutions are valuable resources that can be somewhat inaccessible and hidden.  This article describes how the library is using the high [...]