In a recent article on csmonitor.com, community college librarian William Wisner (Laredo CC) chastises librarians and the library schools that produce them for whoring out to technology and abandoning the rightful mission of the Library. You may recall that Wisner wrote the excellent albeit depressing Whither the Postmodern Library (McFarland, 2000). In this new article, [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } British Library: Turning the Pages, originally uploaded by notmarian. I cannot stop looking at these books! I’m sucked in. You will be too. The narrations are fabulous! So genius. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2nd Anniversary, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar. Alright, so, I pole danced for charity…I am proud of it! (well, not really, but it was for the Libraries in Second Life–an excellent [...]
My good colleague at http://genneaux.wordpress.com (and next door to my office in the Library) has just posted this adorable and useful video on social networking. It totally cleared up social networking for me. I love this video so I’m posting it myself though it would just as easy for my 6 readers to go to [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ALA Junk Mail, originally uploaded by notmarian. I made the grievous error of joining ALA with my home address. Well, I used to have a membership with my work address but [...]
So, I’m still on the YouTube revelation from yesterday. Instead of being fully engaged at one of the presentations I attended today I was pondering YouTube (and TeacherTube and Blip.tv). Many colleges block or slow down YouTube and other popular sites at peak teaching times to free up bandwidth for the classrooms and library research. [...]
Here’s a video I did with the excellent multimedia services television super heros at my college. It was made for the Soaring to Excellence teleconference tomorrow. The teleconference, Trends, Fads or Folly: Spotting the Trends that Really Matter looks at virtual worlds, folksonomies and new ways of reading. Lori Bell and Tom Peters are presenting. [...]
The College of DuPage is now taking applications for its next Resident Librarian! This program trains a recent MLS about the type of library they rarely learn about in grad school (sigh). I know this program is great because I was the first-ever CC Resident Librarian. (yes, I’m proud.) Read all about it here: http://www.blog.codlibrary.org/?p=100