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Another gaming in libraries lecture from on high
In: Librarianship| Libraries
29 Aug 2009I said in a recent post that I was going to leave the decision about gaming in libraries up to the public librarians because they know more about it than I do. When I read finger-waggling preachy blog posts like this recent one by Library Garden,(recommended by one of fave lib blogs, iLibrarian) my back [...]
No real research for you
13 Aug 2009California Community Colleges cut electronic resources budgets. Completely. 100%. No more databases for community colleges there. As Kenley notes, the state is looking at central brokering for the CC’s but what until then? Did they slash the Universities like this? What does this say about how Cal. values community college students? My heart goes [...]
Whither the Community College Library?
10 Aug 2009In 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 [...]
I want to be a librarian…
In: Libraries
9 Jul 2008This is one of the (in)famous Book Cart Drill Teams at the ALA Annual conference this year. Why, oh why doesn’t this band (Haunted Love) have their tracks on Itunes? I want this song! Oh, and this is a pretty brill demonstration of just how hysterical librarians can be. At least to other [...]
2nd Anniversary of SLL2
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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 [...]
Ice Cream!!
In: Librarianship| Libraries
31 May 2008My 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 [...]
Et tu, ALA?
In: Librarianship| Libraries
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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 [...]
Engineer’s Guide to Cats
In: Libraries| funny bits
28 Apr 2008I am at a conference. The keynote speaker was Larry Irving, the man who coined the phrase “The Digital Divide.” Much of what he had to say needs to percolate in my mind but, since I’m at a conference and most people feel compelled to blog when they are at a conference…here’s my Conference Tidbit [...]
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Getting a Second Life Account!
10 Apr 2008Here’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. [...]
Google Book Search Gadget for you.
In: Cool Tools| Libraries
17 Feb 2008Ok, so librarians get all twittery when they encounter masses of full text. Myself included. It doesn’t matter what kind of full text either: journal articles, research reports, newspaper articles and, of course, books. Though we love the fact that google is cranking out the e-books as fast as we can catalog them…there’s a big [...]
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