http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2008/09/please-help-abby-with-her-homework.html Karl Fisch, whose blog I really enjoy, posts about an assignment his daughter has: to create a travel journal and write to friends to ask for postcards. Karl thinks like I do. What about the online component? I think this assignment is fine as far as it goes, and we mailed it off to a friend in Kentucky on Friday. But, and you’ve got to know what’s coming, I thought this assignment was ripe to have a “virtual companion” to it. So, I haven’t asked for much on this blog (well, other than changing the world), but I’d like […]
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http://www.sjcpl.org/aboutsjcpl/departments/sightssounds/sightssounds.html#videogames Some things to remember when checking out video games: Limit: 5 total games or CD-ROMs (combined) per cardholder (as per current policy) Loan period for each: 5 days Service charge: $1.00 per day Fines: $2.00 per day for each overdue item Age Limit: 18 and over Holds: No Renewals: No Grace period: No View a complete listing of the video games in our collection here. (pdf) Games are available only at the Main Library’s Sights & Sounds Department. Games may be returned at any SJCPL location. Want to know more? Contact us by phone (282-4609), email (sightsandsounds@sjcpl.org) or chat (asksjcplav). And watch the SJCPL […]
Don’t miss: http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2008/09/sopac-for-the-smaller-set.html KJS: How about the staff’s relationship with the web? Has that changed? GH: When the blogs were a separate function of the old site, they were disconnected from our online presence. Blogging was doled out as a staff responsibility to one or two people. When we first started working in the staging site, I encouraged everyone to participate, which took some adjusting to for most of the department. There are a couple of staff members who discovered with the new website that they had a great voice and lots of really interesting things to share. Part of […]
Cindi Trainor responded to my question in this post with a Google map mash up with this link. Thanks Cindi! A map of libraries who have participated in the Learning 2.0 program created by Helene Blowers at PLCMC.
http://www.robcoers.nl/weblog-artikelen/23-dingen-op-de-kaart.html Rob Coers posts an interactive Google mash up of all of the libraries in Holland that he’s helped do a 23 Things program. My question: have I missed the one that highlights how many times the program has been done worldwide?
Timber Wolf, originally uploaded by digitalART2. “Picturing the Wolf: The Art, Artifice, and Science of Being a Wolf in Children’s Books” Saturday, September 27, 10:30 am Newberry Library Speaker: Debra Mitts-Smith, Dominican University, with comments and discussion by Roberta Seelinger Trites, Illinois State University Chicago Public Radio will be broadcasting the talk: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Event_Detail.aspx?eventID=964 Join Debra Mitts-Smith of Dominican University as she examines visual, textual, and folkloric sources to understand the wolf as an icon of widely varied meaning and nearly universal significance. She traces the image over time in children’s books from the “Big Bad Wolf” of fairy tales to […]
SOPAC 2, originally uploaded by jblyberg. The library should encourage the heart.
Teen Team 2008, originally uploaded by mclib dot net.
Library quote, originally uploaded by alexandrayarrow.
I haven’t got to mention that I’ll be chairing the ALA Web Advisory Committee for this coming year. I thank our president Jim Rettig for the appointment. I just sent this message to the group and wanted to share it here as well: Greetings Web Advisory Committee! I am very happy to serve as chair for this coming year. I’m even more excited about the launch of the new ALA website, which will be on September 22nd. The preview is available here: http://staging.ala.org/home.cfm Here’s some of what’s ahead: For the first two weeks, we’ll be asking the members of WAC to proactively spend […]