I met with our architects today for the redesign of our library/research center. We’ve been working on the plans for several months now, trying to create a new space that fits the philosophy of our library more closely. (I always say we have a 21st century library in a 19th century space!) The plans are coming [...]
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Love your library enough to make a YouTube video?
April 23, 2007 · No Comments · libraries, Uncategorized
Create a 30 second to 2 minute creative video “professing a deep, abiding love of libraries, librarians and those who depend on them” and enter to win $10,000 in Thomson Gale’s “I love my library” contest. Students, teachers, public library patrons and librarians can participate! Videos will be uploaded to a YouTube group (Librareo)and the five [...]
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Web 2.0 display
April 19, 2007 · No Comments · libraries, Uncategorized
A followup on our library displays for National Library week–following a web 2.0 philosophy, we set up a blank table in the library during National Library week and asked students to contribute their favorite books to the table along with writing their recommendation of the books. Here are a few photos of the display they are creating.
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Books that changed your life
April 15, 2007 · 3 Comments · libraries, Whole New Mind
This week is National Library Week and to celebrate, we’ve invited all staff on our campus to pose for a photo with their favorite book, which we’re displaying in the library. And as our “library 2.0″ feature, we’re setting up an empty table for students and asking them to “create” a display by placing their favorite book on the table [...]
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“Did you notice that the world has shifted?”
April 12, 2007 · No Comments · libraries, TLA, Web 2.0
Michael Stephens woke up a session at the Texas Library Association in San Antonio this morning with that question. I’m just back from the conference and mulling over a Library 2.0 presentation by Stephens and Jenny Levine (the Shifted librarian herself). If we approach everything about the library with a ”user centered” approach(Casey), from how the library is set up, to how our web [...]
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365 days?
April 9, 2007 · 2 Comments · libraries, Web 2.0
Libraryman has begun an interesting project on the Flickr photo-sharing site called 365 days. He invites librarians to post 365 photographs to Flickr of their libraries in action during the next year. I’m actually thinking this would be a great project for a school as well. What a great way to show what goes on [...]
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7 best careers?
April 7, 2007 · No Comments · libraries
Anyone want to take a guess what Kiplinger.com thinks are the seven best careers for 2007? Jenny Levine of the Shifted Librarian points out that one of the careers selected is librarian! Levine shares Kiplinger’s catchy job summary– “Librarian. Forget about the image of librarian as mousy bookworm. Today’s librarian is a high-tech information sleuth, a master [...]
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American Libraries asked…
March 31, 2007 · 1 Comment · libraries, Web 2.0
I’m very excited (and still stunned!) that I have been asked by American Libraries to answer some questions about blogging as a school librarian for an article which will be in the May issue, called Mattering in the Blogosphere. Doug Johnson at the Blue Skunk Blog (who had a lot to do with getting this article [...]
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21st century schools
March 22, 2007 · 1 Comment · Cross Curricular Connections, libraries, Uncategorized
The vision committee I’m a part of just shared a presentation with our faculty based on our site visits to California, about the ideas we’re bringing back to our campus. It brought back to me the excitement of the trip, the excitement of feeling like a education professional, and the excitement of believing that so [...]
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Research across the curriculum
March 7, 2007 · No Comments · libraries, Research
Rereading the Blog of Proximal Development that Will Richardson recommended and visiting other high schools has stirred up thoughts for me about how compartmentalized both high schools and many colleges are in terms of curriculum. As I said previously, one of the things that excited me the most during our site visits last week was seeing some interdisciplinary [...]
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