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Accreditation - The seal of professional approval

August 29th, 2011 / 2:56 am

Professional groups sometimes give a “seal of approval” to an academic program when it meets high standards established by the professional field. In Library and Information Science, the gold standard is being accredited by the American Library Association (ALA), an organization with 62,000 members that promotes libraries, intellectual freedom, and library education. Since

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Is a Conference the Same as a Convention?

August 29th, 2011 / 1:49 am

Is a conference the same as a convention? Not really. A convention has the connotation of a holiday where conventioneers party the night away and may attend a meeting or two and visit exhibition booths to see the latest products on display. For academics, though, going to a conference is an opportunity to share ideas, research results and new ways of thinking about a discipline

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Rutgers SC&I faculty member and students win top prize at the I-conference

February 6th, 2010 / 12:38 pm

Congratulations to Prof. Joe Sanchez and PhD students Jessica Lingel, Nathan Graham, and Aaron Trammel who won the best poster award at the i-Schools conference held this week in Champaign-Urbana. The poster "The Jersey Punk Basement Scene: Exploring the Information Underground" presented elements of the Social Informatics/Information Seeking research the team has in progress.

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Lost Knowledge - What happens when workers leave an organization?

January 31st, 2010 / 4:23 pm

Social Media and Sharing Knowledge

January 27th, 2010 / 8:48 am

Digital Library Futures Discussed at IFLA Meeting in Milan

August 29th, 2009 / 8:17 pm

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Gurteen Knowledge Cafe in New York

Here's another chance to attend a Knowledge Cafe with KM leaders -- this time in Manhattan.

Dr. Helen Paige of Advance Knowledge Network in South Australia, Australia

(http://www.thepaigegroup.com.au ) and Regional Director, Gurteen Knowledge Cafes,

Australia will be leading a Knowledge Cafe during her visit to New York.

The topic is "The Impact of Social Networking Tools in Organizations." The group will

discuss what this means and what impact these tools have had on organizations.

DATE: Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 from 6 to 8:30pm

TOPIC: The Impact of Social Networking Tools in Organizations

LOCATION: Perkins Eastman, 115 Fifth Avenue (18-9 Street), 3rd Floor, New York City

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