We were assigned a wonderful article for SLIS 6000 by Marcia Bates called “Mining the Substrate of Information Science,” in which she discusses the underlying functions of the discipline. here are my thoughts, as posted to our class board: ?Currently,? Bates writes, ?the wheel is being reinvented everyday on the information superhighway? because of digital information and the leaps and bounds of IT. Bates states that IS folks have been bypassed and we have all the expertise. When you want something done right pertaining to information, get a librarian to do it! I appreciated that sentiment. When Bates mentions we […]
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CJ let me know about The September Project and he asked me about Indiana Libraries participating. I believe they do not have a representative library yet from Indiana… Check out the Weeb site for more info!
Well done Franklin!!! Our SJCPL staffer from Local History has published Southern St. Joseph County (Images of America)! Amazon Link!
(That’s a line from an obscure Fleetwood Mac song from 1987) Are you a blogger working in a library? Do write about the comings and goings of library users? Do you blog your interactions with other staff? If so, please take a minute or two and answer some questions for Aaron and I. We’ll thank you for it! Click Here!
My friend David just sent this as I finish up my first semester: I think this is very fitting for you: ‘Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.’ -Henry David Thoreau
On Saturday, we had a FRONT PAGE article on WiFi! Link good for only seven days or by paying! Offering ‘Wi-Fi’ Wireless Internet can be accessed for free at local libraries and businesses By MARGARET FOSMOE Tribune Staff Writer ON SCREEN: Stephen Taig, of Elkhart, works on his laptop computer last week at Panera Bread in Mishawaka. The restaurant offers free high-speed wireless Internet access to customers and loans out wireless cards. SOUTH BEND — Free high-speed wireless Internet access is spreading among area public libraries and businesses. Known as Wi-Fi — short for Wireless Fidelity — it provides computer […]
Aaron and I are writing and article AND presenting at Internet Librarian — so yeaterday we met for almost an hour via iChat on our Macs! Face to face and with audio…nice!
Join 4 Technology Trainers at Internet Librarian 2004 — Sunday November 15th after the preconferences. We’ll be hosting a Community of Interest networking session… if you train in a library setting and want to chat and ask questions or give answers — we’ll see you there. Scheduled to lead the discussion/be on hand to chat: Robert Lewandowski – St. Joseph County Public Library Technology Trainer Michael Porter – LibraryMan Blog Aaron Schmidt – walkingpaper & Thomas Ford Memorial Library Michael Stephens – TTW Blog, SJCPL & member of the UNT IMLS PhD program
I’ll be there! I’m participating in a few sessions about training and blogging AND IM!!!! Hope to see you there!
I am proud to say that during my leave, the good IT folks at my library finished making the whole library system wifi compatible! Read about it here: http://lishost.org/~sjcpl/archives/000085.html This morning, I’m IMing with SJCPL staffer Sean who said this week on his floor — the magazine/fiction area –he saw a Powerbook user, a windows PC person doing homework AND a Palm user checking movie descriptions to find soimething in our AV department. Welcome one and all to the Wireless World!