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A colleague and I are presenting a Zotero workshop in a couple of weeks for faculty and grad students in the college of business. We’re hoping it will be the first of several sessions, so we came up with “research power tools” as the theme. Our library’s graphic designer Christian Steinmetz came up with this amazing promotional poster for the workshop, which I had to share. I love the robot guy for some reason.

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Image used by permission of GSU library

Zotero 2.0 beta is out! With this version Zotero becomes social software, adding the long-awaited groups feature to share references online. This looks very cool.

For more details, check out the Zotero blog or the 2.0 beta release notes.

It’s up! We had fun recording this episode.

In the course of post-recording dissection, we all agreed that the interviews and discussion segments are a lot more interesting to listen to than the solo segments. We’re going to to more of that in the future.

We’re serious about wanting contributions from other people, so let me know if you’ve got something instruction-related you’d like to talk about on the show. I’ll do all the heavy lifting and audio engineering.

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I love this video by by librarian Carrie Donovan at Indiana University promoting their services for students. That is all.

This short article by Rob Weir on Inside Higher Ed, “Boring Within or Simply Boring?” is one of the best teaching how-to pieces I’ve read recently. I’m tempted to print out and post Weir’s formula to look at next time I’m planning a class:

Mix with enthusiasm and repeat the following:

• Stated Objective(s)
• A Plan
• Hook
• Body
• Repetition
• Summary
• Restated Objective(s)

Props to Boing Boing for the link.

Photo by Adam Mulligan

I’d like to share my number one tip for giving presentations:

The F5 key starts the slide show. Don’t bother poking through the menus.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

Registration for my ACRL webinar “Podcasting for Libraries” (June 2 at 2pm Eastern) is now open!

Info and registration here (scroll to the bottom of the page).