In our discussion last week on the effect of the iPod and iPhone in libraries we made several conclusions. First, we expanded on the iPod to include MP3 players (or digital content player). We also felt that the iPhone was still too new to have a serious impact on libraries (at least any more of [...]
1 After school let out today I was plugging away at some reading I have to do for my class when I noticed that the students in the lab were eerily quiet. When kids get quiet I tend to get paranoid and think they are up to something so I wandered into the room to [...]
Tags are great, I really like them. I’ve used tags myself and they tend to be really useful, but I’ve also found them confusing and unnecessarily complex. For example, if you glance to the image on your left you’ll see the tag cloud for my del.icio.us bookmarks. Look at the unbundled tags. If you look [...]
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 [...]
1 A couple of weeks ago I had to go observe a children’s program at a public library for one of my grad school classes. I originally wanted to go see a young adult program but because of time and travel restrictions I settled on going to the Harold Washington Library to watch a program [...]
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 [...]
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