Each TechnoTuesday
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2010
Some how knowing the Old Spice Guy has become an Internet sensation and a very popular ad campaign, I sort of knew it would only be a matter of time before some savvy educator created their own spin-off!! This one is great!!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2010
(Note to Bobby Newman of from Libraries and Transliteracy: Sorry, I shamelessly copied some of your post!!) Salem Press recently announced the winners of it’s Library Blog Awards and we were excited to learn that this blog, Libraries and Transliteracy was first place in the General Blogs category. First, second and third place awards were [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2010
Lol cruising through my reader and then tweets this morning I ran across this–actually in both places. What a pleasant surprise to see my school represented! It comes from one of Joyce Valenza’s recent Pennsylvania School Library Association presentations–this one titled Reading 2.0. Cool. Often I forget about some of these tools. We just can’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2010
Just read a tweet attributed to Joyce Valenza showing a Google Map of all the places where school librarians have been eliminated (though I could not track that tweet down so here is the one I saw). How very depressing! But instead of thinking “how many jobs cut” all I can think is “how many [...]
Posted in Blogging, Library, Library Brand on Feb 20th, 2010
Just got through commenting on a relatively new librarian blogger’s post about adding some blogs to follow. It’s been a while since I have done this, so I thought now would be a good time to let readers know whose voices are shaping my thinking and practice. I have a folder in my Google Reader for library [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2010
Seth Godin poses this question: What should libraries do to become relevant in the digital age? The future of the library Read his post in its entirety, and also read reflective responses from Joyce Valenza, Doug Johnson, Scott Mcleod, and Jenny Luca as you muddle through the implications. Even in our own state we’ve heard [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2010
Okay tonight on our SCASL list the query came through about how to give numerical grades to kids that visit the library once a week for a school population the equivalent of around 275 students. WHAT? Sounds like classic data analysis gone to the head of an administrator; data driven decisions and now a librarian [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 12th, 2009
Dr. Mary Ann Bell Mary Woodard’s post (from her Blog The Top Shelf-just got word today I had the wrong name–ooops so sorry!!) got me to remembering what I loved most about being an elementary librarian in the not too distant past. (And if I had not felt like the glorified babysitter and residential expert [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2009
I’ve been hearing more and more about “Cloud Computing.” I must confess I’ve been there via the Google tools for quite some time. Our library’s calendar is done using Google Spreadsheet, and there are several people who have editing privileges from school. We use the Google forms feature to do any number of surveys, from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2009
Wow it is really hard to believe that summer is slipping away. I’ll begin work in my new digs the first Monday in August. I decided to clean out my calendar of dates related to my last job (one I will fondly miss!!) as I prepare to be new yet again. Sigh. What’s difficult is [...]
