Karen Munro, Learning Librarian

It’s been a busy summer, and I’ve thought many times that I need to pick this blog up again, but so far it hasn’t happened.  I’m not home-free yet (I’ll be out of the office for a week in a few days), but there’s no time like the present.  There’s just too much going on in the blogosphere not to pitch in.  But I’m starting off slow, with just a few link pointers and notes-to-self…

To read:

• The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

To write:

• A chapter for the forthcoming Best Practices for Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses, with co-teacher, co-author, and co-lleague Annie Zeidman-Karpinski

To ponder:

• The future of e-book devices.  I was just talking about libraries’ approaches to Kindles and e-readers with my wife the other day, and now here’s OverDrive working out an book loan plan for Sony e-readers.  Interesting to mentally match this up with open-access textbook projects…