Can the Elliott Wave Predict Library Usage Patterns- August 11, 2008 In the 1930's, Ralph Nelson Elliott, a corporate accountant, studied financial market price movements. He observed that certain patterns repeated themselves and what may appear to be random and unrelated actually create a recognizable pattern. Elliott called his discovery "The Elliott Wave Principle." While the theory is applied mostly to financial and commodity markets, the Elliott Wave addresses much more: it attempts to find patterns that underlie collective society. It can been viewed as a..http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2008/08/can-elliott-wave-predict-library-usage.html Rethinking Scholarship in Academic Librarianship- August 7, 2008 I was asked in a comment by Karen to to my Knol post if I had a promotion and tenure model in mind which took into account emerging scholarship methods. I didn't at the time. Since then, I have been doing some thinking, reading, and talking with colleagues.The nature of librarianship and scholarly communication has changed drastically over the past decade while the definition of scholarship for academic librarians is stuck in time. Scholarship in libraries with tenure track librarians is still..http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2008/08/rethinking-scholarship-in-academic.html Will Librarians Embrace Knol Chances are....- August 4, 2008 ...we will not. At least initially.To play with Knol, I created my first document, a repurposing of my five part SOA blog series from last year. I could have created one very long blog post but decided to break it into more digestible chunks. The reformatted Knol version pulled it all together and it seems to works as a longer document. I will likely be questioned by faculty colleagues wondering why I didn't publish publish it in a traditional peer reviewed journal. This is part of the point of.http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2008/08/will-librarians-embrace-knol-chances.html |