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Gslisadjuncts Academic - The-Library-Tops-Social
by Thomas Surprenant 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Library-Tops-Social/128460/ -- chirp elt Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies

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Gslisadjuncts FYI - Shortage of Rooms in the Social Sciences Division
by Thomas Surprenant 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

FYI, Our division alone has almost 50 classes that have no assigned rooms to date. The so-called software that was supposed to do this, obviously, hasn't performed to spec. What else is new? Bridget has made a super human effort to secure classrooms that meet our needs. If you end up being one of the unfortunate few who are teaching in the far flung reaches of the College please note that a reassignment will be difficult if not impossible. This is just something that we will have to live with until we move into the old Law School. -- chirp elt Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor & Acting Chair/Director Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies

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Gslisadjuncts Digital Revolution and Higher Ed, etc.
by Claudia Perry 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Shared by Prof. Evelyn Behar.... > >> >> iPad, I Saw, I Waited: The State of E-textbooks, http://bit.ly/nOH3b8 >> >> The Digital Revolution and Higher Education >> Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:01 PM PDT >> The Pew Research Center has released The Digital Revolution and >> Higher Education. >> Here's an excerpt: >> The Future of Online Learning. College presidents predict >> substantial growth in online learning: 15% say most of their >> current undergraduate students have taken a class online, and 50% >> predict that 10 years from now most of their students will take >> classes online. >> Digital Textbooks. Nearly two-thirds of college presidents (62%) >> anticipate that 10 years from now, more than half of the textbooks >> used by their undergraduate students will be entirely digital. . . . >> College Presidents and Technology. The leaders of the nation's >> colleges and universities are a tech-savvy group. Nearly nine-in- >> ten (87%) use a smartphone daily, 83% use a desktop computer and >> 65% use a laptop. And they are ahead of the curve on some of the >> newer digital technologies: Fully half (49%) use a tablet computer >> such as an iPad at least occasionally, and 42% use an e-reader such >> as a Kindle or Nook. >> >> >

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Gslisadjuncts Welcome Jim Marcum
by Thomas Surprenant 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi guys, During our annual new student orientation on Thursday August 25th, I had the pleasure of introducing our new department chair Dr. James Marcum. That was my last “official” duty as Acting Chair of the GSLILS. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Marcum to the School and to his new position. -- chirp elt Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies

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Gslisadjuncts There Are Classes Today - August 29
by Thomas Surprenant 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Campus Hurricane Update for Monday, August 29 Queens College and all other CUNY colleges and university offices are open on Monday, August 29. However, classes are canceled until 4 pm. All classes scheduled at that time or later will be held -- chirp elt Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies

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Gslisadjuncts Fwd: enrolling students
by Thomas Surprenant 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <Elizabeth.Hendrey(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:10 AM Subject: enrolling students To: socscichair(a)googlegroups.com The College is expecting to keep admitting students even after classes start and may push the deadline for adding classes back some. Please give faculty a heads up that this will be happening to a greater degree than usual. Betsy -- chirp elt Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies

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Gslisadjuncts Fwd: Creative Commons
by Claudia Perry 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Shared by Prof. Evelyn Behar. Neat!!! Begin forwarded message: > From: ewbehar(a)aol.com > Date: August 21, 2011 9:16:45 AM EDT > To: c2perry(a)nyc.rr.com > Subject: Creative Commons > > > From American Libraries Direct 8/17/2011 > > A quick guide to using Creative Commons images > Most guides for working with Creative Commons images are for those > who want to pick a license for making their own work available. Even > the CC site itself is geared toward Creative Commons license users, > and not Creative Commons–licensed content users. So as a small > public service announcement, here is a brief intro to CC image > usage. First, Creative Commons licenses are divided up into six main > license types, and each one can be tweaked to cover text, images, > video, and other types of works.... > Ars Technica: Law and Disorder, Aug. 9 > > > Evelyn >

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Gslisadjuncts Fwd: obama book club
by Thomas Surprenant 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Many thanks to Yesha Naik for this item which lists all of the books that the President has read since he took office. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/14/obama-s-book-club.html -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Tell me, what is it you plan to do. With your one wild and precious life? *- Mary Oliver We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- chirp elt Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor & Acting Chair/Director Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies

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Re: Gslisadjuncts gslisfac Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences - problem corrected!
by Claudia Perry 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

Hurray! Thank you so much Izabella! Claudia On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:00 AM, izabella.taler(a)qc.cuny.edu wrote: > > Dear ALL, > The problem with off campus access to ELIS has been resolved! > Thank you all for your patience and for bringing it to my attention. > Izabella > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: izabella.taler <izabella.taler(a)qc.cuny.edu> > To: gslisfac <gslisfac(a)qc.edu> > Sent: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 7:57 am > Subject: gslisfac Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences - > off campus access problem > > > Dear All, > We are having vendor problems with off campus access to > Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. We hope this > problem will be resolved soon but in the meantime kindly keep in > mind that on campus access continues to be functional. > Thank you all for your patience . > Izabella Taler > > _______________________________________________ gslisfac mailing > list gslisfac(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu http://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman/listinfo/gslisfac > _______________________________________________ > gslisfac mailing list > gslisfac(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu > http://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman/listinfo/gslisfac

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Gslisadjuncts Fwd: Fw: Blackboard Maintenance from Sunday, August 21 at 12:00 P.M. to Monday, August 22 at 12:00 P.M.
by Thomas Surprenant 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Please forgive me if this is a duplicate - I don't think that it is but who knows these days. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <Sergio.Cruz(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:15 AM Subject: Fw: Blackboard Maintenance from Sunday, August 21 at 12:00 P.M. to Monday, August 22 at 12:00 P.M. To: OCToutage(a)qc.cuny.edu Cc: octhelp(a)qc.cuny.edu FYI ----- Forwarded by Sergio Cruz/OCT/Staff/Queens College on 08/16/2011 09:13 AM ----- *CIS Announcement <cis.announcement(a)MAIL.CUNY.EDU>* Sent by: CIS Helpdesk Announcements <CIS-HELPDESK(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> 08/15/2011 04:58 PM Please respond to CIS Announcement <cis.announcement(a)MAIL.CUNY.EDU> To CIS-HELPDESK(a)LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU cc Subject Blackboard Maintenance from Sunday, August 21 at 12:00 P.M. to Monday, August 22 at 12:00 P.M. CIS and Blackboard Managed Hosting will be upgrading CUNY's Blackboard 8.0 environment to the latest release level, Service Pack 7 Hot Fix 2, from Sunday, August 21 at 12:00 P.M. to Monday, August 22 at 12:00 P.M. The system will be unavailable during this maintenance window. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -- chirp elt Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor & Acting Chair/Director Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies

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