2009 October

Entries from October 30th, 2009

“Book” “Face” and the classroom

October 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0

If you’re a fan of the Office, you may have gotten a good laugh out of Jim’s “Facebook” Halloween costume in this week’s episode. There’s something refreshing about applying a sense of levity to discussions about using Facebook in schools. Not that there are not serious considerations about the issue, but sometimes we need [...]

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And so the library evolves

October 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Web 2.0

What does this photograph and this beach at Asilomar have to do with libraries, you might ask? It’s from a place that I find irresistible. Taken during a conference I find irresistible–a conference that keeps me coming back for more. Ever since Joyce Valenza and Doug Johnson wrote their intriguing article in School Library Journal, I’ve [...]

Defining a vision

October 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Leadership, libraries

In their article in School Library Journal, Things That Keep us Up at Night, Joyce Valenza and Doug Johnson have given us much food for thought. They are earnestly concerned about the survival of school librarians and libraries if we don’t evolve to meet the current demands that technological and societal changes regarding information use have [...]

So, what can we do?

October 18th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Web 2.0

In the last few days I’ve been following the simmering discussions that spun off of work by Joyce Valenza and Doug Johnson, eminent librarians and leaders in our field, about the issue of 21st century librarians and what responsibility we all have to embrace new technologies. It’s been fascinating reading the excellent blog discussions that [...]

Database vendors–this one’s for you

October 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · databases

A panel discussion on databases at the SLJ Summit in D.C. raised some important concerns about database vendors. I think it would behoove them to listen to these concerns if they want their consumer market(k12 librarians and k12 students) to keep using their products. In this arena, I’d say, Google has got it right. One [...]