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This week on LiTTech: Addie and Emily talk about a somewhat new way to introduce library patrons to new technology in a friendly, welcoming, non scary way. Who says a library is just a place to store books? Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech Show #3: How do you pick a book? Collection Development Basics LiTTech #22: Emerging Tech and Outreach in Special Collections LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks Related posts: LiTTech Show #3: How do you pick a book? Collection Development Basics LiTTech #22: Emerging Tech and Outreach in Special Collections LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks

This week on LiTTech: Addie and Emily talk about the upcoming ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA. It’s the largest gathering of librarians and one of the largest conferences in the world, so there’s lots to think about! Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech Show #30: Virtual 4T Conference Preview LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech #7: Teachers and Information Literacy Related posts: LiTTech Show #30: Virtual 4T Conference Preview LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech #7: Teachers and Information Literacy

This week on LiTTech: Addie and Emily are joined by Elena Azadbakht of Southern Miss to talk about some tools for getting organized. Avoiding plagiarism and keeping track of your sources has never been easier with some of the tools they talk about here! Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson, Elena Azadbakht Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech #28: How Naughty are Librarians (Very!) LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech Show #9: Creative Commons: a new approach to copyright Related posts: LiTTech #28: How Naughty are Librarians (Very!) LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech Show #9: Creative Commons: a new approach to copyright

This week on LiTTech: Addie and Emily are joined by their old friend Steve Flynn to talk about what an Institutional Repository is and if/why we need them. Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson, Stephen Flynn Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech Show #5: Screencasts and Repositories LiTTech Show #27: The Librarian Job Hunt LiTTech #33: Citation Managers Related posts: LiTTech Show #5: Screencasts and Repositories LiTTech Show #27: The Librarian Job Hunt LiTTech #33: Citation Managers

  This week on LiTTech: Addie and Emily talk about the Association of Research Librarians’ (relatively) new Best Practices on Fair Use: 8 guidelines for libraries that give an idea of what is OK and what is a copyright violation. While not an official legal document, it’s nice to have an idea of where other librarians think the line is. Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech Show #9: Creative Commons: a new approach to copyright LiTTech #6: Awesome Presentations and Hybrid Courses Related posts: LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech Show #9: Creative Commons: a new approach to copyright LiTTech #6: Awesome Presentations and Hybrid Courses

  This week on LiTTech: Addie and Emily preview the Virtual 4T Conference. It’s this weekend, it’s free, and it’s a great way to get some Continuing Education Credits in your PJs! (Oh, and Emily’s presenting as well. . . .) Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech #34: ALA Preview LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech Show #8: eReaders in all shapes and sizes Related posts: LiTTech #34: ALA Preview LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech Show #8: eReaders in all shapes and sizes

  This week on LiTTech: Emily is joined by Emily Flynn, cataloger at ProQuest to chat about the code behind the numbers on the spines of the books. Whether it be the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress Subject Headings, someone has to classify all the items. That person is the mysterious cataloger. Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Emily Flynn Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech #32: Institutional Repositories LiTTech Show #5: Screencasts and Repositories LiTTech Show #27: The Librarian Job Hunt Related posts: LiTTech #32: Institutional Repositories LiTTech Show #5: Screencasts and Repositories LiTTech Show #27: The Librarian Job Hunt

  This week on LiTTech: Emily and Addie are joined by Elena Azadbakht from the University of Southern Mississippi to talk about something we all encounter every day: the librarian stereotype. Whether she’s mousy or sexy or a detective, the stereotypical librarian never ceases to arouse curiosity. Or to be completely correct about anyone in the field (starting with the fact that the stereotypical librarian is usually a “she”!) Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson, Elena Azadbakht Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech #33: Citation Managers LiTTech Show #16: Librarians in the Lead LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks Related posts: LiTTech #33: Citation Managers LiTTech Show #16: Librarians in the Lead LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks

  This week on LiTTech: Emily and Addie finish up their series on standards with the back half of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. The last three cover everything from thinking critically to ethics to citations, meaty stuff! Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson, Elisabeth LeBris Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech #23: ACRL Standards (Part 1) LiTTech Show #25: Mobile Learning in the Library (Part 2) LiTTech Show #24: Mobile Learning in the Library (Part 1) Related posts: LiTTech #23: ACRL Standards (Part 1) LiTTech Show #25: Mobile Learning in the Library (Part 2) LiTTech Show #24: Mobile Learning in the Library (Part 1)

  This week on LiTTech: Emily and Addie continue their conversation with Elisabeth LeBris. This week they talk about how new technology can affect professional development and how to get the teachers over the hump. Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson, Elisabeth LeBris Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech Show #24: Mobile Learning in the Library (Part 1) LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech #42: Things I Wish I’d Learned in Library School Related posts: LiTTech Show #24: Mobile Learning in the Library (Part 1) LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech #42: Things I Wish I’d Learned in Library School

  This week on LiTTech: Emily and Addie are joined by their old friend Elisabeth LeBris, who has just seen the implementation of a Bring Your Own Device Program. They chat about what that means for the students and teachers and how it has changed their school. In fact, it was such a good conversation, it couldn’t be contained in one podcast! Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson, Elisabeth LeBris Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech Show #25: Mobile Learning in the Library (Part 2) LiTTech #42: Things I Wish I’d Learned in Library School LiTTech #49: Social Media for Your Library Related posts: LiTTech Show #25: Mobile Learning in the Library (Part 2) LiTTech #42: Things I Wish I’d Learned in Library School LiTTech #49: Social Media for Your Library

  This week on LiTTech: Emily and Addie continue their discussion of ALA Information Literacy Standards. This week they start on those set out by the Association of College and Research Libraries. Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson, Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech Show #26: ACRL Standards (Part 2) LiTTech #15: The Standard on Standards (Part 1: AASL) LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks Related posts: LiTTech Show #26: ACRL Standards (Part 2) LiTTech #15: The Standard on Standards (Part 1: AASL) LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks

  This week on LiTTech: Emily and Addie are joined by Tiffany Jane Brand to talk about Special Collections: what they are and the innovative ways they are getting their message out. From Facebook to Pinterest to Flickr, these interesting collections of primary sources are moving online and are available for anyone to access. Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson, Tiffany Jane Brand Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech #35: Please pet the animals: What is a tech petting zoo anyway? LiTTech #6: Awesome Presentations and Hybrid Courses LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks Related posts: LiTTech #35: Please pet the animals: What is a tech petting zoo anyway? LiTTech #6: Awesome Presentations and Hybrid Courses LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks

  This week on LiTTech: Emily and Addie are joined by Media Design Specialist Daniel Laird to talk about five basic applications that everyone should know about. Some of them are so good, the techies will assume you have already heard about them. Others were news to us as well. All of them are worth checking out! Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson, Daniel Laird   Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech #6: Awesome Presentations and Hybrid Courses LiTTech #7: Teachers and Information Literacy Related posts: LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech #6: Awesome Presentations and Hybrid Courses LiTTech #7: Teachers and Information Literacy

This week on LiTTech: Emily and Addie take a quick look at the way prices for academic journals have exploded over the past few years. Recently though, professors and provosts have started to make stirrings that they might shift their focus to open-access journals if the model doesn’t change. Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson   Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us Related posts: LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech Show #8: eReaders in all shapes and sizes LiTTech Show #9: Creative Commons: a new approach to copyright Related posts: LiTTech Show #2: Being New and Audiobooks LiTTech Show #8: eReaders in all shapes and sizes LiTTech Show #9: Creative Commons: a new approach to copyright