Went to a seminar last week given by Erin Walsh, daughter of Dr. David Walsh, who wrote the best selling book, "Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen. The SAMMIE Library cooperative hosted. We are trying to prepare ourselves to better serve teens. Libraries do a great job with little kids, but we have a ways to go with teens.
Was working in a bigger library on Saturday and had a conversation with a 12 year old who was checking out audio books. She said, "I don't have time to read a whole book, that's why I like poetry." It made me think about how much our teen and college grad children text. Texting is a lot like poems. Concise and to the point. I asked the girl if she had ever participated in a poetry slam? "What's that?"
Monday, January 26, 2009
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
THING 8, Sharing Creations TWITTER-style?
Ok, so back to my re-run of 23 things...
On the instruction page for Thing 8, I clicked Slide
which jumped me to the BIGWIG Social Software Wiki
where I found a presentation discussing the who, what, and wherefore of TWITTER.
Join twitter, add a presentation?
There are other twittering librarians...
http://twitter.com/yalsa
OK, here goes.
On the instruction page for Thing 8, I clicked Slide
which jumped me to the BIGWIG Social Software Wiki
where I found a presentation discussing the who, what, and wherefore of TWITTER.
Join twitter, add a presentation?
There are other twittering librarians...
http://twitter.com/yalsa
OK, here goes.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thing 7.5 WEB conferencing
Social networking with live web conferencing
or a conference within a virtual world like Second Life
has practical uses. Hmmm..
or a conference within a virtual world like Second Life
has practical uses. Hmmm..
Monday, August 4, 2008
THING 7 Communication Tools
Today a lady called from California
with a reference question: Could we
help her find old images of a school
and church her mother attended 40
years ago? The lady is creating a
"memory quilt".
We will find, scan and e-mail
the images to this Californian who
will, in turn, print them out on cloth
squares for her memory quilt.
How's that for a "mash up"?
After reading the 2005 Smart Library
article about SMS or "text messaging",
it is interesting to note how pervasive
text messaging now is.
The article mentioned that III offers
library software called AirPac,
adapted for small portable and
wireless devices.
I "googled" AirPac and found this
link to the Minneapolis' wireless library catalog:
http://mplwebcat.mplib.org/airpac/jsp/airpacIndex.jsp
It has a very basic and simple interface.
That is very cool. Access the library
from wherever you are, without a computer.
I played a little with the catalog and it looks
like it allows access to electronic library books
and information right from one's wireless device.
with a reference question: Could we
help her find old images of a school
and church her mother attended 40
years ago? The lady is creating a
"memory quilt".
We will find, scan and e-mail
the images to this Californian who
will, in turn, print them out on cloth
squares for her memory quilt.
How's that for a "mash up"?
After reading the 2005 Smart Library
article about SMS or "text messaging",
it is interesting to note how pervasive
text messaging now is.
The article mentioned that III offers
library software called AirPac,
adapted for small portable and
wireless devices.
I "googled" AirPac and found this
link to the Minneapolis' wireless library catalog:
http://mplwebcat.mplib.org/airpac/jsp/airpacIndex.jsp
It has a very basic and simple interface.
That is very cool. Access the library
from wherever you are, without a computer.
I played a little with the catalog and it looks
like it allows access to electronic library books
and information right from one's wireless device.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
THING 5, More Flickr Fun
photo is c/o Big HUGE Labs and fd's Flickr Toys!
This cake is ready to eat!
Part of our pretend cake decorating contest.
Happy Sesquicentenniel Minnesota!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Thing 4, Photosharing, Picasa
Last Friday I took some photos
of the SAMMIE, Plum Creek,
Pioneerland "teen coop"; librarians
who are working on a collaborative,
cooperative project to better serve
our teen patrons.
We met at the Redwood Falls
MN public library. Redwood
has a designated "teen" area
and teen programing in their library.
I uploaded some of the
photos to a Picasa album.
Here's the embedded result:
of the SAMMIE, Plum Creek,
Pioneerland "teen coop"; librarians
who are working on a collaborative,
cooperative project to better serve
our teen patrons.
We met at the Redwood Falls
MN public library. Redwood
has a designated "teen" area
and teen programing in their library.
I uploaded some of the
photos to a Picasa album.
Here's the embedded result:
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Thing 3, RSS Depth-charge
Blogger recently added the option for
"My Blog List" which I have taken
advantage of. I tried a SpringWidget
for a little while on this blog, but it
wasn't as user-friendly as the blog
list option. One of the blogs I have
subscribed to has a "blog roll" too,
but the author has his private. Mine
is public.
One's blog can be the repository for RSS,
bookmarks and links, organized just like
you want, tagged and marked.
T'is a customized desktop and browser and a
librarian's dream-toy? An organizer's play land?
"My Blog List" which I have taken
advantage of. I tried a SpringWidget
for a little while on this blog, but it
wasn't as user-friendly as the blog
list option. One of the blogs I have
subscribed to has a "blog roll" too,
but the author has his private. Mine
is public.
One's blog can be the repository for RSS,
bookmarks and links, organized just like
you want, tagged and marked.
T'is a customized desktop and browser and a
librarian's dream-toy? An organizer's play land?
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