Monthly Archives: August, 2008
“shuffled and reordered”
“Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everybody can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
- Italo Calvino
Hip to be human
Remember that New York Times article “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers” that came out just over a year ago? It’s been on my mind lately, and I’m not sure why. Anyway, I finally realized why I don’t like the article and why I still walk away from it with a sense of discomfort.
I think many [...]
Back to school
My fall semester of grad school starts today. I’m both really excited and really worried, since I’ll be taking three classes and still working full time. While this will let me graduate in May rather than August, I’m nervous about how well I’ll manage the courseload. A coworker of mine did the same thing and [...]
Rock out @ your library
Check out this computer user rocking out to her own private party at the library. It’s making the blog rounds, and I have to admit, it’s awesome, and I wish I had that kind of self-abandon in public places.
My favorite comment on the video comes from LISNews:
… just because you’re amongst all those books, doesn’t [...]
Learn & Play @ the CML
Jennifer of the Columbus Metropolitan Library in Ohio filled me in on their exciting “Learn & Play @ CML,” a Web 2.0 learning program similar to the 23 Things program at PLCMC developed by Helene Blowers. Since digital literacy is one of those spaces where public libraries can truly excel (and so few libraries are [...]
“OurSpace, TheirSpace”
I finally decided to upload one of my conference presentations to SlideShare. This particular presentation (“OurSpace, TheirSpace: Libraries, Young Adults, and Social Networking”) was given at the Georgia Public Library Service Teen Conference in December 2007, and it was essentially the result of a semester’s worth of research about the subject. Please note that the [...]