Posts Tagged ‘higher education’
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Creating Connections: How Libraries Can Use Exhibits to Welcome New Students
September 20, 2017 | No commentsIn Brief: Feelings of loneliness are common among first-year college students during the start of the academic year. Academic and social integration into the campus community—both factors that can positively affect student retention—are critical yet difficult for any one group to manage. Grand Valley State University Libraries expanded its reach to help foster student engagement…
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Creative Destruction in Libraries: Designing our Future
November 20, 2013 | 9 commentsTags: academic libraries, creative desruction, higher education, liberal arts colleges, makerspaces, saarinen, social mediaIn Brief: Joseph Schumpeter defines creative destruction as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.” As libraries struggle with how to position themselves to thrive in the digital age, how can we balance the traditional elements of librarianship like…