Slides and notes
I’ve just uploaded the slides and notes from our recent presentation at Hunter College’s ACERT Teaching Tuesdays. Many thanks again to all who came to talk with us, it was a great discussion! I’ve also...
View ArticleNew Year’s Update
It’s been pretty quiet around here lately, but not for lack of work on the project! We’ve been filling practically every spare minute since last summer finishing up coding and analyzing our data...
View ArticleMaking the Most of our Visual Data
We’re delighted to report that we’ve won a PSC-CUNY Research Award to enable us to create a companion website to our book. The website will allow us to display (and interact with) some of the rich...
View ArticleFall Conference Outings
Popping in here (in the midst of putting the finishing touches on our book manuscript, nail-biting awaiting word from publishers to whom we’ve sent our book proposal, and working with our Data...
View ArticleA Website Facelift!
We’re prepping to go to the American Anthropological Association meetings later this week and thought that our project website deserved a bit of a redesign before we head out to Chicago. The site now...
View ArticlePost-Conference Posting and Wrap-ups
We’ve had a great time presenting at a couple of conferences over the past few weeks, and are delighted to share our presentation materials. First off was the American Anthropological Association...
View ArticleData Visualization: A Student Timeline
As part of our study we’re creating an interactive online tool to accompany our book which uses dynamic timelines, mapping, and presentation software. While we’re still hard at work on the website, we...
View ArticleCUNY Students’ Technology Stories
We were delighted to present at yesterday’s Teaching & Technology Conference at Baruch College — many thanks to the always awesome Luke Waltzer for inviting us. The other sessions we went to were...
View ArticleCUNY Students’ Learning Spaces
It’s been a busy presentation year for us (with a couple more to come in June), and it’s been great to get around the university and beyond to talk about our project. Last Friday we presented at the...
View ArticleQualitative Research in Academic Libraries
Our springtime of presentations continued this month, and we presented on June 6th at the first ever library assessment conference — Reinventing Libraries, Reinventing Assessment — sponsored by CUNY’s...
View ArticleOur Article on Student Technology Use
We are delighted to share that our article about what our research revealed about students’ technology use has been published. This past Monday, EDUCAUSE Review Online published Commuter Students...
View ArticleOur Article on CUNY Students’ Library Use
The preprint for our latest article, “I am more productive in the library because it’s quiet:” Commuter Students in the College Library, has just gone live! It’s being published in College &...
View ArticleMETRO Workshop Materials
Along with our colleague Frans Albarillo of Brooklyn College, we’re pleased to be offering a workshop on conducting interviews and focus groups at the fabulous METRO — the Metropolitan New York Library...
View ArticlePresenting on Cognitive Maps at ACRL 2015
We’re just back (and perhaps still jet lagged) from the biannual Association of College & Research Libraries conference, this year in beautiful Portland, OR. We were delighted to present on a panel...
View ArticleMaterials from METRO Workshop #2
We had a great time returning to METRO today with our colleague Frans Albarillo to offer a follow up workshop on analyzing data from interviews and focus groups. As before, here are our slides and...
View ArticleConnecticut Library Association Presentation
We had a great time today presenting and talking with academic librarians at the Connecticut Library Association Conference. We began by asking folks to draw a map of their libraries and think about a...
View ArticleOur Article on Student Learning at Home
This week our article on CUNY students creating their learning spaces at home was published in the journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe. In this piece we discuss how the CUNY students we spoke...
View ArticleOur Article on CUNY Students’ Commutes and their Academic Work
We’re delighted to share that our article about how CUNY students use (or don’t use) their commutes for their academic work was just published in Urban Library Journal. In this article we share the...
View ArticleThinking about Time and Technology for Academic Work
My phone is on its way out. It’s an Iphone 5 and my service contract has expired, so I should probably upgrade. But I’m not a fan of the current Iphone 6 — it just seems too big to me, even in it’s...
View ArticleFall Research Updates
We had a busy year of new data collection during 2015-2016 and are looking forward to sharing the results of that research this year. First up is the Library Assessment Conference in Arlington, VA, in...
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