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Headline of the Week: No Class Time Is Just the Beginning of What Is Missing

Many have been following the developments of MOOCs (massive open online courses) and the firms that provide the platform to offer them (eg. Coursera, Udacity). The idea has us thinking about the course effectiveness, the business models of the firms that are being built to offer them and how students will leverage them with regard to the issue of college credit.

The University of Wisconsin has announced that it will offer a program called the UW Flexible Option.

Luther College, a four-year liberal arts college in beautiful northeast Iowa, is seeking a self-motivated individual with vision and experience in quality customer service and support to manage our LIS Technology Help Desk. The Help Desk Lead takes responsibility for the overall quality of the LIS Technology Help Desk functions and for the continuous improvement of service. As such, experience or skill in leadership, team-building, and collaborative work is required.

Headline of the Week: Alone in Public

Articles on the future of libraries and the future of the residential college are very interesting to me. The steady stream of insights and ideas in these articles informs an ongoing conversation in my mind.

“For Making the Most of College, It’s Still Location, Location, Location” caught my interest. It started with the title – “…Location, Location, Location.” This is an oft used phrase for a key parameter to determining the value of real estate. If a property has a good location that is a driver that increases the value of the property.

Present: Matt H, Matt B, Bob E, Larry, Matt H, Eddy, Jennifer R, Jennifer S, Diane

• ZBrush – It was learned recently that this software hasn’t been functioning all year in CFA 118; it wasn’t needed for classes until now. The problem has been resolved and it is up and running.
• Final Cut – The MacPros in the CFA 118 lab will be upgraded from Final Cut 7 to Final Cut Pro X this week.

Headline of the Week: A Story of Innovation

This week I came across an interesting story. It started with a posting on the Luther College and Friends LinkedIn site. It turned out to be an old posting but it was resurrected as a side effect of a very recent commenter. The commenter was encouraging a young Luther Alum, Scott Meyer, on his (then new) project to create “A Travel Hacking Guide to Norway.”

Scott was struggling with the problem of the high cost for travelers in Norway; especially ones he’d hoped would come and visit that didn’t.

To welcome new community members, LIS has prepared brief guides to LIS services offering a brief overview of the most important things someone new should know. These guides do not provide all the information about our services, and are intended to answer frequently-asked questions while referring new users back to the LIS website for complete information and documentation.

The guides for New Students and for New Employees have been updated and are available online at http://lis.luther.edu/welcome.

The Educause webinar “It’s Not Just Facebook!—What Every College Student Should Know About Online Privacy: Privacy Officers Around the Virtual Water Cooler” concluded earlier this afternoon.

I know many people were not able to attend due to weather or other work priorities, but I did want to post one of the helpful resources that was mentioned in this broadcast. It’s an article on social media and security that was published last summer by the University of California-San Diego.

Headline of the Week: Copyright: YouTube AudioID and YouTube VideoID

At the library services this meeting this week we got into a conversation about copyright and copyright education for our students and faculty. This conversation included a reminder that we have on our website extensive information about copyright for use by our faculty and staff in dealing with the copyright issues they face and on which they need to make usage decisions.

For those of you who participated in the Educause webinars during last year’s Data Privacy Month, you may recall the book LOL. . .OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship, and Cyberbullying by Matt Iverson. The author spoke as part of one of the webinars and the e-book version was offered as a free download for a limited amount of time.

This year, the book is being once again offered as a free e-book download starting today through January 29th.

Today we turned on Google analytics reporting in ReasonCMS. Now any site owner/editor can view up to date analytics via the ReasonCMS admin console.

Site maintainers can view analytics for their whole site or a particular page. Additionally, they can limit the results by date range and on-campus vs.