Sunday, March 26, 2006

HigherEd BlogCon

I'm going to have a paper presented in the online conference HigherEdBlogCon.

HigherEdBlogCon 2006

The paper is about raising the visibility of the library by leveraging talent in organization and metadata. The library and information services part is supposed to run April 10-14, 2006. I volunteered to do chat as well, but I don't know if that'll happen or not.
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Sunday, March 12, 2006

New Institutional Effectiveness Manual

I just updated our IE manual. There was some interest at the last SCICU institutional research meeting to see what our online system looks like. There are a bunch of screenshots and documentation thereof in the manual. You can get it here. Because of the embedded graphics, it's kind of big: 1.1MB. Below is a snip from the interface.

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