Thanks to Kathy Ishizuka on Twitter, I found out about the creative Library-Lovin challenge, which is a wonderful way to raise money for libraries. This great idea began with Jennifer Hubbard, and challenges a group of library bloggers to pledge monetary donations to their local libraries based on blog comments they receive! So if you [...]
Entries from March 28th, 2009
The power of place
March 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · libraries, Web 2.0
A tweet from Chris Craft just caught my eye this morning and triggered all sorts of thoughts. crafty184 “I really would like to figure out something I’d need to ask a reference librarian because Google can’t provide the answer.” I jokingly responded a question Google probably can’t answer: “Where is the pencil sharpener?” But there’s [...]
How do we respond?
March 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Collaboration
On her blog, TechnoTuesday, Cathy Nelson shared a dilemma many librarians (and tech staff) face. How do we keep from getting demoralized when we are truly attempting to raise the caliber of an assignment and teachers feel they are too busy or too concerned with an upcoming standardized test or just reluctant about accepting our [...]
What will the future of print look like?
March 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Change
I just finished an interesting article in Fortune Magazine(the print version, I might add) about the e-reader technologies for magazines. There are several ventures considering various types of e-readers that would download magazines onto tablets or paper-thin devices. The article raises several questions, with which I concur, such as whether or not readers would want [...]
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Where they live?
March 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Teacher Learner
During dinner last night with some of my Twitter colleagues who were in town for the COSN conference, I was pondering a question I really am curious about. A teacher and I were talking yesterday about Facebook and work he is doing with a science organization for college students and professors. The organization had a [...]
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Do we see the change around us?
March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Change, Web 2.0
When I saw this poster via a link on Twitter, I laughed and then knew I had to write about it. Change is such a frustrating process sometimes because it is so very gradual. We can’t always perceive it when it is happening because sometimes it seems so glacial. Those of us who are impatient [...]
Partial mea culpa
March 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Web 2.0
A few days ago I wrote a post trying to get attention of database designers to a few things, namely making searching more convenient and fun for students so they would use the databases more frequently. One particular thing I mentioned was embeddable search widgets. After investigating and some legwork on my part, I discovered [...]
Are databases dead?
March 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Research, Search tools, Web 2.0
I’m going to be blunt in this post. Databases are dead. (Okay, maybe that is a bit dramatic.) And who would mourn their loss? What value do they add to our internet experience? Both Joyce Valenza and I (and I’m sure scores of other librarians) have probably written similar posts in the past asking database [...]
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