For those of you that have been following this blog1 I will be posting occasionally for one of my library classes. Do not fear, I will continue posting about video games and zombies and all sorts of random stuff. For those of you visiting here for the first time I hope you enjoy yourself. My [...]
A colleague of mine sent me an article about how cool librarians are. It seems to have caused quite an uproar with a few of the blogging librarians (who are all quite cool also). (link, link, link, link, link). I’m not quite a librarian yet (one class and an internship away from graduation) but when [...]
Don’t be scared by the acronyms (ILS = Integrated Library Service). I’ve been reading the Chicago Public Library strategic plan lately and I was especially interested in this part (found on page 17, 2nd column about half way down). The Chicago Public Library will launch a completely redesigned website in conjunction with the 2006 introduction [...]
I’ve had conversations with people about the digital native. I’ve used the term myself many times, but have we ever thought about what it REALLY means to be a digital native? This term drives me a little crazy because I think people have the wrong idea about what it means. I am not a digital [...]
I know this has been around for awhile but I just recently found out about it. (CPL you should take advantage of this and advertise it so that people know it’s there for them to use, be sure to include a warning about privacy!) Library Elf allows you to create an account that links to [...]
I recently saw this article up at the Wired blog. It’s funny that this came out the same week that I put up my very first blog post (other than the introduction). It was because of this very reason that I started this blog. I was doing some research a couple of months ago for [...]
I saw that Jenny over at The Shifted Librarian is going to be writing an article about gaming/second life in the Library Technology Reports. I’ve been thinking about gaming in the library and although I think there might need to be some restrictions I also think “why not?” Why not let kids get together and [...]
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