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 [...]
A reader left a comment about the Great Kids Museum Passports. Her local branch has a sign that lists all the museum passes and which ones are available and which ones are out. I can’t tell you how many times my wife and I have had to ask the librarians which passes were in and [...]
I’m constantly surprised by the fact that people don’t know about this, and it seems like A LOT of people don’t know about this. Chicago Public Library and Kraft foods have partnered together and created a program called The Great Kids Museum Passports. Each library has passports for almost every museum that will get you [...]
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 [...]
This is a little bit old… I was browsing my RSS feeds today, getting caught up on all my back reading when I found this post from Sept. 29 at librarian.net. (Take a look at the powerpoint presentation, it gives a great rundown on what FLOSS is.) It’s great to see people talking about FLOSS. [...]
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