I’m writing a Zotero book
"1947 Continental" by Olivander
I'm really pleased and excited to announce that I'm writing a book about Zotero for ACRL Publications. (This is one reason I've been all "Zotero Zotero Zotero" on the blog lately. ...More than usual, I mean.)
The working title is Zotero: A guide for librarians, teachers and researchers. It will be part how-to guide for Zotero users and partly about supporting, promoting and teaching Zotero.
For my research, I'm really interested in hearing from:
- librarians and educators who are incorporating Zotero into teaching, from high school through grad classes
- campus Zotero advocates who are engaging in interesting promotional and outreach activities
- Zotero users who are using it in interesting or unusual ways
If you're doing any of those things please email me or leave a comment! I'm writing through the beginning of 2011 and I'm expecting it to go to print in the spring. I'm sure I'll be posting about it here as it progresses.
A big thank you to Kathryn Deiss at ACRL Publications for working with me on this!
Adventures in Library Instruction episode 16
New ALI episode! We did something a little different at the suggestion of our guest Stephen Francoeur and discussed an article about instructional strategies for IM reference services by Megan Oakleaf and Amy Van Scoy (no relation to our Anna Van Scoyoc).
GLA Wednesday Webinar presentations
This morning I attended two terrific webinars sponsored by the Georgia Library Association and Georgia Public Libraries: The Social Library by Cliff Landis, and Library on the Radio by Charlie Bennett and Ameet Doshi. If you weren't in the chat room with us, check out the archive.
Both presentations are really worth seeing. Cliff did an amazingly concise job of presenting his take on social media for library outreach, and Charlie and Ameet talked about the genesis of their library radio show "Lost in the Stacks" (on which I made a guest appearance earlier this summer). Cliff is the first hour of the archived presentation and Charlie and Ameet start at 1 hour 15 minutes.
Archived Zotero presentation
I gave an online Zotero talk for GALILEO last week. Here's the audio and video archive. It's part software how-to and partly a discussion of how I teach and support Zotero in our library. EDIT: No password needed -- just leave it blank and click Enter.
I'm doing another one for them in November (and one on Libguides in early August), and I hope to be a little less awkward with the Wimba presentation software at that point!
My Zotero book
Adventures in Library Instruction podcast
- Episode 35: The Guide on the Side w/ Meredith Farkas
- Episode 34: Discovery Layers in the Classroom
- Episode 33: Love the Cataloger; Hate the Catalog
My posts @GSU Library
I Support
Twittering
- Online Zotero workshop July http://t.co/9MFg75aH