At parent night at my daughter's preschool this Fall, the teacher indicated that the students would have library day on Thursdays and would be able to borrow two books from the school's library and that "it is a real library, so there are fines when books are not turned in on time."
The first lesson these
I just came across a great site called http://liszen.com/, which is a Library & Information Science Search Engine. This site is a custom search engine and allows you to search over 700 library blogs. And yes I ran a search and came across our very own SPLAT! Blog. You can even add your own
The Oct. 4 issue of USA Today has an article by Janet Kornblum called "Teens: It's Our Facebook." In the article, Kornblum describes the reaction of one teen when her parenting expert and author mom wrote "umamaluvsu" on her Facebook wall. As Tess Lippincott put it, "I definitely don't want her to be
I haven't posted in far too long but as I sit here with...
a) Meebo open in one of my Firefox tabs so I can be contacted through the MeeboMe widget on our library's home page (two "real" reference questions answered there last week),
b) Bloglines open in another tab, with the feeling of satisfaction
Stephen Abram talks about and points to a report (107 pages!) by Ann Joslin and her ICFL peeps titled "PERCEPTIONS OF IDAHO’S DIGITAL NATIVES ON PUBLIC LIBRARIES: STATEWIDE FOCUS GROUP FINDINGS"
Way to go, Ann and ICFL!
I'm new in the social software universe, but somehow I found my way, creating accounts in MySpace and Facebook and even ning.com. But a some point, things got all tangled up as "Jolie Vandal" tried to set up a Law Library mascot site. Jolie seems to be in a
I've been in my new position as Teen Center Advisor for ACL for a few months now and I'm settling into the role. I've still got that "new job uncertainty" but I'm not thrown off track by every question that's asked of me and, thankfully, the teens are starting to accept me and the way