LS534 – University of Alabama Health Sciences Librarianship blogs
It looks like students taking Health Sciences Librarianship (LS534) at the University of Alabama are being required to post article summaries in WordPress blogs. Here are a few I’ve run into:
- Greg Schmidt’s article summaries in Medical Librarianship
- ARTICLE SUMMARIES FOR LS 534: MEDICAL LIBRARIANSHIP
- Sums, Crits, and other Acronyms
Found a few more by searching BlogLines.
I’m curious why the professor is requiring students to post article summaries to blogs. If the idea is to share their work with their classmates, wouldn’t WebCT or Blackboard be a better option? Perhaps the prof. feels strongly about blogging and is hoping to create another Health Sciences Librarianship blogger or two.
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August 31st, 2006 at 9:33 am
The prof uses del.icio.us to organize reading materials, too. He’s maccall.
August 31st, 2006 at 10:16 am
Steven MacCall (the professor) is a very strong believer in the importance of librarians being comfortable with all of the new tools, so he makes sure that his students get practice. You can see the syllabus for his medical librarianship course from last year here:
http://bama.ua.edu/~smaccall/courses/2006/spring/ls534-web/
August 31st, 2006 at 11:54 am
Thanks to Ratcatcher and T. Scott for this additional info. Its great to see a Health Sciences LIS class that makes these technologies an important component. These are, I think, fortunate students. Way to go, Professor MacCall!