Well, after listening to Stephen Abrams this Summer and Fall, talking about it and consulting with Ada Community, we (East Bonner County Library) decided to start an inaugural video game collection! Within the next couple of weeks, customers / patrons will be able to choose from 66 games to check-out. Many of the games we
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04 Dec 2006
Learn Library 2.0 (online, of course!)
If you or your staff want to experience the whole concept of Library 2.0 and everything that entails, by all means run and sign up for the Five Weeks to a Social Library course.
From their website:
The course was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity for librarians
27 Nov 2006
LIBWORM: RSS & Libraryland goodness!
22 Nov 2006
Get Trendy!
Want to keep up with what's trendy in the library world? Scope out the newest offering from Library Zen -- LISZEN: Trends. This new website lets you read, submit and vote on library-related news stories from across the Internet. Think of it as an online
18 Nov 2006
Get Your Word(s) On
At the final New Technologies and New Literacies for Teens meeting at the Idaho Commission for Libraries, the day's "knock-your-socks-off" tool was Google Docs & Spreadsheets. The librarians there thought it was pretty sweet that
09 Nov 2006
4 Librarians Serving Teens
Courtesy of the LibGaming Google Group, I learned about an excellent resource for libraries serving teens. Check out Teen Video Game, Anime and Programming Information for Librarians created by Megan Johnson, Teen Librarian at Rochester Hills Public
08 Nov 2006
IM and MySpace continue to be blocked at EITC Library
I've been enjoying the blogs about IMing and MySpace but I continue to be frustrated about using these as the IT dept here at EITC has blocked these (and will not consider unblocking.)
So! we will not be able to use these options here, and hope that other SPLATTERS will continue to post to the LILI Splat
01 Nov 2006
School and Web 2.0
Great research from a 19 year old web designer/programmer whose blog (Solution Watch) has a three-part post titled "Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0" on using new web technologies in the classroom. From the blog:"During the last few weeks I have researched possible scenarios
30 Oct 2006
Just in time for Halloween!
I finally logged on to www.findagrave.com and think it has a lot of potential for library programming. I heard Stephen Abram mention the site at the Digital Natives Conference in July and again when he presented at the 26 Oct 2006
adalib.org 2.0
Look out world (wide web) -- Ada Community Library has a brand new website! After several months in development, we finally went live last Friday (10/20/06) with our new and improved web presence.
Our new website features blogs (for each department and