PowerPoint karaoke

A really fun event at the ACRL conference in Philadelphia this year, is Battle Decks. It involves participants presenting PowerPoint presentations they haven't seen before! Five or six participants compete for a grand prize (an iPad, of course) by "talking to" a library orientated presentation consisting of 10 slides. They have to do this in 5 minutes and are judged in categories, such as flow, audience participation, completion, etc. Hilarious stuff!

Postgraduate Supervision Conference at Spier

The third bi-annual international conference on “Postgraduate Supervison: Promoting a culture of postgraduate scholarship” will be held on 18 – 21 April 2011 at Spier. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners of postgraduate supervision to share research results and excellent practices. The conference is organised by the Centre for Higher and Adult Education at the University of Stellenbosch.

Here's a link to the programme - of particular interest to us, as academic libraries supporting research, is Theme E: Support roles – promoting the scholarship of postgraduate supervision

The Postgraduate Supervision Conference almost slipped under the radar (for me, at any rate).
And in fact, this is so relevant for us as RLC Librarians! Hope that some of us get the opportunity to attend.

A web of words

This wonderful student art work, made from pages from a discarded encyclopedia, has been suspended from the staircase in the Perkins Library at Duke. From above it looks like a giant spiderweb, caught in the spiral structure of the staircase, but from below it looks like jellyfish tentacles, swaying gently back and forth in the currents of the sea. It's great to see student art displayed like this in the library because it gives the art students an opportunity to showcase their work to students and staff who wouldn't normally see it.

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Thank you, Mortenson!

Tonight was our farewell dinner at the Mortenson Programme. And, in one way, it is like saying again goodbye to "home" - because, Ashton Woods and the Illinois campus (and especially the Yellowhopper bus) became an important part of our life here in the USA! A very special word of thank you to Barbara, Susan, Katie and Jamie - thank you for making these nearly three weeks of our stay unforgettable! We are going to miss you!