tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89906383021319037102011-04-21T16:08:12.074-07:00C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-55266914754876185842009-06-01T10:06:00.000-07:002009-06-01T10:14:15.544-07:00

Yesterday I enjoyed a look at the Sony Reader. I'm actually quite favourably impressed with the readability on screen, although I confess that I feel as if it needs a bit of the iPhone - the ability to just run one's finger across the screen to turn the page rather than to press a button. I suppose that's something for future generations of the reader to have. I was thinking about this in terms

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Web 2.0 is not about widgets, mash-ups, or media. It's not Meebo chat widgets, flickr photos on maps, or youtube videos embedded within a static web page. It's about people creating content to share with other people. It's about taking the power of creating content in the hands of users. It streamlines information sharing.I hadn't actually considered this to be a radical concept until recently.

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Things that tend to get me very excited about being a librarian: shiny new resources. Or just things I didn't know existed prior to browsing through some catalog or review in literature. For instance I'm finally taking the time this morning to go through the Library Journal supplement Reference 2009, and stumbled across Social & Cultural History: Letters and Diaries online. Of course cost is

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It's been really nice to know that websites can be in constant beta, and it's made the pressure for designing the new University library website be somewhat less. Still, the process is basically complete and the site is ready to be moved from the development stage to live sometime next week after finals are completely finished. We did usability testing with undergraduates, and while I'd like to

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I was reading The Librarian as Bibliotherapist today and really found that I liked some of the ideas in this article. The most difficult part of doing this sort of technique I believe, is that it makes it difficult to create a standards based lesson plan where you ensure that students at a certain level have the opportunity to truly learn and practise certain information literacy standards.That

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I definitely would like to spend more time looking at Open Library. It looks like it might be fantastic fun, not to mention that in the brief bit I read about the project, I certainly concur with it's goals. Personally I think it would be fantastic for the first posts for books that come up are not links to buy (necessarily), but are rather worldcat.org or Open Library links.I think I need to

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Ah yes, summer, the land of perpetual chill at work.I can tell summer is here with how cold it is in the library. As is typical, they have turned the air conditioner on far beyond when it should be turned on, and I am hunched over the reference desk in a thick sweater and a running space heater. At this moment I pray for concentration, because cold is never conducive to productive work for me.

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Recently I've been trying to make better use of Zotero in my research at home. What I've discovered is that I really do appreciate the tool. Currently I'm using it to organize the children's literature books that I've read, as well as some that I stumble across in my reading that I would like to read. It's easy to add links either into the Summit Catalog or to Worldcat.org, both of which are

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This morning's distraction occurred in the form of an email talking about Britannica Webshare, a new program that allows access to the online Encyclopaedia Britannica for people who are blogging or publishing online. This looks like a great program, because while I have access to an electronic subscription through our library, readers of my blog wouldn't necessarily. This program looks like it

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I have completed moving all of my posts from LiveJournal to this Blog. I will be using it for future library musings and information.

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This morning's project is working on a display for National Library Week, coming up next week. So far we're printing photos of interesting libraries, such as these international libraries at this website. I'm also going to put The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World out so people can look through it if they like. Additionally, I am currently in the process of moving old entries over to this

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The hardest part of teaching is not knowing if a lesson is going to work. I like to try new things with my classes. I have a list of information literacy standards that I apply to each of the courses I teach, but I keep trying to move towards a more hands on approach with teaching them and less with a Powerpoint lecture. The problem with this, is that I usually feel quite fine about a Powerpoint

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I think I need to start a list of frequently asked questions I receive on library assignments. If I hear the same things over and over it's probably true that these are things that need to be addressed, in some cases for our institution, in some cases probably in libraries the world over! This one is very indicative of one I often receive, which is 'how do I tell if the book is going to be useful

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At one health fair, where I was exhibiting our consumer health information service that we offer for free to all our state's residents, an attendee listened to the information about the services, and replied, "No thank you, I don't need your service. I have a computer of my own." I wanted to respond to the attendee, "Yes, but please consider this: I have a hammer, wood, and nails at my home, but

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Of the 53 percent of U.S. adults who said they visited a library in 2007, the biggest users were young adults aged 18 to 30 in the tech-loving group known as Generation Y, the survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project said.Gen Y: biggest users of libraries These are our students! Clearly they see libraries as a community and a place they can access information! (actually, young adults 18

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I’m reading the Studying Students: The Undergraduate research project at the University of Rochester study and just came across an interesting quote:I went to the professor because they are the specialist in the subject area; I don’t see librarians as specialists. They just know about general information. They are knowledgeable about search engines.It’s an interesting perspective considering my

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Building Web 2.0 Native Library ServicesCasey Bisson, Software developer & information technologist, Plymouth State UniversityThis session looks at the World Wide Web as a "disruptive technology", and how the Web affects libraries and our users. How can libraries catch up to user expectations of our online services? My comments are in parenthesesLibraries are much larger than our books or our

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Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information ServicesTip-filled session from an experienced super searcher focuses on less-well-known search engines, highlighting advantages of these search engines. Also a discussion of Customized Search EnginesToday: Beyond the Big 3.5 (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com - the .5)Specialized search toolsBuilding your own search enginesExalead"One of the best general search

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Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine LandFuture of search: Hard to predict since two key things I expected to happen have happened! Personalized resultsBlended resultsChallenges with search engines are how to automatically get you into the right search engines into the right specialized search when you search for something like 'pictures of Italy'Federated seach hits the web, AKA:

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Gadgets, Gadgets, GadgetsBarbara Fullerton; Sabrina Pacifici; Aaron SchmidtWi-Fi Detector Shirt: ThinkGeek.com Asustek Internet Radio (AIR): Can connect to the Internet using a standard LAN connection - provides access to 10,000 radio station worldwide. Archos 404 Camcorder: pics, video, $300Cable Cat: $7Canon Snap Concept: Sunray SX2 - Solar-powered golf cart made by Cruise Car: $7,000Revisit:

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Met the author of librarywebchic and thanked her for sharing information on her blog, which has been a source of inspiration to me over the past year. She remarked that sometimes you had to push for what you needed for users. I've found this very true in my own library. I ask if we can do something, the default answer seems to be ‘no’, and I’m never content with that answer. If my original idea

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Internet Librarian: Tuesday: Screencasting & Elearning on a DimeKaren Coombs & Michelle BouleDrupal ChatSingle party client, must have an account, and sometimes is blockedADM, Trillian, Pigeon (3rd Party Clients)Meebo à Web-based, multi-client chatsGroup Clients:Campfire Meebo RoomsOften embeddable in websites!BLOGS: Blogger Free, API is open & integrates with other Google products, buy your

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Training Strategies & Social Networking ToolsKaren Draper, Senior Information SPecialist, Adobe Inc.Discussion of how the library and research group at Adobe reaches out to engineers, marketing professionals, sales people, and more through various training tools aimed at helping them use internal and external resources more efficiently and effectively. Meet the Users: Kathleen, Product

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Content & Commons: Library 2.0 Organizational StrategiesTerence K. Huwe, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library, UC – BerkeleyHuwe describes how “library skill” was employed at iRLE to vastly increase the reach of the library staff into the working lives of its user community.How library skill can drive organizational change – how 2.0 is a tubro-chargerHow library 2.0 and Web 2.0

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Teach me More! Fun & Gaming in Libraries Chad Boeninger, Reference & Instruction Technology Coordinator, Ohio University LibrariesRandy Christensen, Associate Professor Library Media, Southern Utah University LibraryInteractive session demonstrates educational gaming as a way to add interest and excitement to library instructions.Comments in Parentheses my thoughts, not speakersHave you got a

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Internet Librarian: Tuesday: Keynote AddressJoe James, Reference 2.0“Be Confident in what you already know about Reference” – Want to poke at this idea.Academic: Someone who would face the apocalypse with a historical overview.Samuel Green: Primary purpose for helping people find information is because there is too much information and people can’t find what they are looking for. (1876)

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Some overall thoughts drafted some the presentations on Monday at the Internet Librarian conference. Web Design So far as websites go I really need to more user testing. I need data to back up where the users are going and what paths they take to get there. If this isn’t information that I can get through the library IT, I need to work with the larger web team at the University to get this

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Web Design on a DimeSarah Houghton-Jan, Soon-to-be Senior Librarian for Digital Futures, LibrarianInBlack.netWeb design in librariesStaffing for web development will vary by size, type, funding, leadership's dedication, and perception of commuinty "techie-ness"Advocate, what you need: Users expect to be online when and where they are; online and brick and mortar services to be identical' your

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Federated Searching FeedbackJill Hurst-Wahl, Hurst Associates, Ltd. Sarah C. Williams, Science & Technology Library & Angela Bonnell, Government documents librarian, Illinois State UniversityBenefits and shortcomings of Federated Search. Jill Hurst-Wahl's PresentationLibraries may have multiple catalogs, databases, and digital repositories that users may want to search. Advise to libraries as we

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Inspiration for your Library RedesignBennett Ponsford & Christina Hoffman Gola, Texas A&M University LibrariesErica Reynolds, Web Content manager, Johnson County LIbraryBennett Ponsford - Texas A&M University LibrariesHow do users want to search? What type of items are users searching for?How do they discover new resources?What is the last thing they look for? What search do they want to default

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First presentation attended today, since I wasn't quite able to get up for the Keynote and first presentation - shame, cause there was one that looked really good. Completely unrelated to Internets or Libraries is the fact that when I walked for my life-saving latte I noticed an adorable British store across the street. We will be going and tea will be bought and possibly biscuits depending on

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I'm certain that if I ever make it to Monterey, Internet Librarian will be an excellent conference.

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Will be attending Internet Librarian in Monterey, CA next week and will probably post from there.

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There comes a point in one's schedule that you have to sit back and do some reflecting. The past three weeks or so - possibly four actually - have been so scheduleful that I've not had time to do that. So in-between individual student conferences this afternoon, I've decided that I need to read some professional literature this afternoon and that includes a sweep down the Google Reader, which is

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New Rules of Web DesignJeff Wisniewski - Maintains University of Pittsburgh Website.Look at the assumptions surrounding Web Design, and which are still true and which may not be accurate for today's web environment. Design is an Inexact Science!Working with web design now is fantastic because there are many questions that are answered currently through decades worth of research in usability,

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Having spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out how to make my new inbox look remotely like my old inbox looked: How much money do you suppose an organization loses in sheer staff energy and time when they move from Groupwise to Outlook and Office 2003 to Office 2007? Discuss.

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I'm looking at my lesson plans for the research writing classes this fall and I think I'm going to try to re-write them with an eye towards evaluation all the way through the sessions. In the past I've looked at evaluation mostly during the session where we cover internet resources, but with more and more good information being available on the web and the truth that some print information is not

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Right then, so this - the this being the 'Share it' option in the right hand column half way down the page - is just so nifty. I totally ♥ WorldCat.org. And suddenly I am aware that this is my 'professional' blog, and I should not be using little emoticons in it, but frankly saying that 'I totally love WorldCat.org' will not change my general emotion towards it. It is very, very nifty to have

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It's a common scenario. Student approaches the reference desk and you think, fantastic, someone I can help learn how to learn. They ask you a question, and it's a complicated one. It's all about finding a journal, finding several articles - and it's not a simple topic, it's one that's going to require generating additional keywords, digging into descriptive subject vocabulary, and more than

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Gen X or NetGen?So, I'm going through the extreme pileup of things I'm supposed to have read. Technically? Gen X. At least according to this presentation. According to the presentation too, I'm supposed to be into video games, PC, email, CDs, and an individualist. If I'm NetGen (born after 1982, according to this presentation), I'm into the web, cell phones, IMs, MP3s, and Online communities.

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Over the past month I've been spending a lot of time on our website looking at how it's arranged and working to put together a different, and hopefully more intuitive, design. It's been an interesting process. This was one of the first things that I did when I began my position here and I felt like I didn't do it very well. While it's true I had some stipulations with the design, I feel like

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I had a really fascinating conference in South Africa. I was able to put together a presentation - Raised by Librarians for the School Librarian's Pre-Session. I took all of the classes for a school media certification so school librarian ship is certainly an interest of mine. The pre-session was outstanding. There were more people in attendance than there ever are in the States, and I think it

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Over the past week, I've had three different individuals suggest to me that the library's collection is "inadequate". Most recently, this was suggested in a list of pet peeves in the school newspaper. The peeve, was actually Overdue Fines (I hear you.), but the insinuation was there was nothing worth checking out. Outside of the lapse in logic there - if you have overdue fines, clearly you have

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I was reminded as I looked through Library Journal tonight, of a quote that both made me grimace and laugh, because I understood the sentiment so well. "I actually have several late fees. It is kind of deterring me away from the library," says Ashley Brown, In the Chronicle of Higher Education Information Technology supplement of January 2007. We've been discussing fines some recently, and of

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The more I work with students, the more exciting the idea of a metasearch sounds. I pretested several of the English Writing students during the last period. Their response to how to find a book when they have a title, were things like "search that library database", "search on the library's main search", "ask a librarian", and so forth. The problem of course is there are catalogs and databases

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-39029245547366734352007-02-23T14:19:00.000-08:002008-04-09T16:57:28.467-07:00

An interesting interview with Tim Spalding, creator of Librarything.com, in Library Journal. Particularly of interest, is his discussion of tags. I've mentioned them from time to time to other librarians, and the temptation seems to be - oh, no, what happens to controlled vocabulary, users won't tag things with useful information, etc. Except that I don't really see it that way - particularly

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Jenny linked to this on her blog The Shifted Librarian and I thought it certainly pairs the web down to its cultural and anthropological heart.

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Happy New Year in the library. Although students are back on campus, it remains very quiet.This afternoon I was struck by a statement in an article called "Librarians as Partners" in the newsletter The Teaching Professor."...librarians can provide feedback about how the students did their research and what issues they might have come up against, such as not enough books available on the topic

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Books still relevant says Forbes magazine. It is at best naive, and at worst ignorant to assume that everything is available on the Internet for free. And yet, there are still individuals that do assume this. Instead of seeing libraries as a place where the wealth of knowledge of humanity can be discovered, social and intellectual discourse can occur, and information can be obtained relatively

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-51401169680637413082006-11-21T16:12:00.000-08:002008-04-09T16:45:01.813-07:00

Creating an Open Search Plug in for Firefox continues to elude me. I've sat and played around with it for nearly an hour and a half now, but I think my knowledge of XML isn't strong enough to make what should be an extremely simple search string work. However, I was able to create a keyword search for the library through a site called Search plugins.net that should work, theoretically at least,

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When I ask you to compare the content of an article and a website, I expect a comparison with a thoughtful look at who the authors are, the supporting organizations, where there might be bias or mis-information, whether you can check resources for facts, and whatnot. If you simply spout back to me what I have told you in class - that internet resources might be full of bias and opinion, or that

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It's ironic that in the end of the "free information revolution" there is as much information that is not free to all as there is that is free. The old adage, you get what you pay for, still seems to apply to digital information on the web. While there are good resources available for free, much of what would be considered a quality source for research or information, requires payment to view. Of

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-8780140092815503512006-10-10T16:38:00.000-07:002008-04-09T16:41:17.846-07:00

Interested in Bungalows? Here are my top four recommendations for information on Bungalows. Bunaglow: The Ultimate Arts & Crafts Home. This book by Jane Powell, bungalow goddess and her photographer Linda Svendson is expensive, but is an excellent look at the history of bungalows, photographs of different styles of bungalows, and a general philosophy of bungalow life. Bunaglow Nation. This book

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All art, good, bad, indifferent, reflects its culture. Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. Two writers may write the same story about the same man and woman and their relationship with each other. One writer will come up with art and the other with pornography. There is no subject that is not appropriate for the artist, but the way in which it is handled can

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-52905367446118230822006-08-17T11:10:00.000-07:002008-04-09T16:39:32.843-07:00

We're in the midst of a recarpet in the library, which means everything is every which way - including my reference room! So, I plan my vacation around when I think they'll be moving the furniture back into the reference room, only to find they won't be doing that until next week (which, of course, is when I'll be taking my time off.) I suppose a lay out floor plan will simply have to do the

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Finishing up projects can be a truly rewarding experience. I've been working on a few major reference room projects and have come to the end of my part in them. This does not mean there are no more projects, but it's one less to work on.Tomorrow: Educating faculty. How to do it quickly and effectively? We're going to try something a bit different this year and we'll see how it goes. When I was

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The hazy lazy days of summer that are anything but!I find that in terms of patron numbers and reference questions they usually are much quieter due to the far smaller number of students on campus. However, summer is generally the time where I work with my projects. And this summer there are a number of them. Everything from preparing the presentation of the OPAC catalog to working on technology

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-54632970733681576852006-07-12T17:06:00.000-07:002008-04-09T16:36:29.112-07:00

I keep running into personalized portal pages. Everyone has them: MSN, Netscape, even LiveJournal has jumped on board. They're nifty. I've found the LJ portal handy before, and I've customized them in several places so that it's useful, and so that it's my home page. I love personalizing pages. I also love communication. I have this dream of a library website that does a bit of everything. It's

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-65817202148437754862006-07-02T04:04:00.000-07:002008-04-09T16:35:15.195-07:00

I get asked about Wikipedia all of the time. What I've found is that librarians and even other subject professionals have reviewed wikipedia, it's often with mixed results - some things manage to stay very up-to-date and other subjects and topics have incorrect information.To be brief, I appreciate wikipedia for a very quick and dirty look up of something that I'm not knowledgeable about, however

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-29025625188051661802006-06-26T08:31:00.000-07:002008-04-09T16:34:10.726-07:00

I love Daniel Boone Regional Library. I love their third floor reading room. I love that I can drink Lakota coffee from their Lakota coffee booth in the lobby. I particularly am fond of their wireless access right now as it is allowing me to update my LiveJournal properly. Beyond the building of delight, I love their collections - CDs and Videos and DVDs... and of course a collection that is a

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-12017862386430165982006-06-22T20:32:00.000-07:002008-04-09T16:33:06.371-07:00

Ten hour drive tomorrow - that'll be all sorts of fun.Yesterday we spent the entire day touring parts of the Chattanooga area. We visited a Railway library, rode the Tennessee Valley railroad and visited the public library as well as some other museums and such. It was a lovely, if somewhat long day. This morning I ended up being so tired and in need of gathering wedding presents and the like

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-53129270860585019652006-06-20T06:42:00.000-07:002008-04-09T16:32:04.588-07:00

Tennessee is absolutely beautiful. I've driven through it before, but I've never actually spent any time in the state - none of any consequence, at least. After all, driving through on your way to Florida does not add up to any amount of time spent in a particular state. I'm not certain I'll be able to say that I've spent any time in the state after this conference either, but I'll have spent a

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Now here's a documentary I really must see. Puss in Books: the Adventures of a Library CatAnd they include the Baker & Taylor cats - I see them in the Baker & Taylor advertisements all the time and think they're adorable and want to use their photos in icons. When I return from conference and have time I shall have to check this out. As well as possibly the Library Cat Society. After all, if one

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The September 2006 issue of Library Journal has a number of fascinating articles. As I look at the situation at our library regarding the possibility of a sorely needed new library building in the near future as well as the students that I work with on a day to day basis, there is a seeming contradiction in needs. When we recently surveyed a selection of twenty students regarding changes we had

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-64682100556223464352006-06-12T21:12:00.000-07:002008-04-09T16:53:01.532-07:00

The September 2006 issue of Library Journal has a number of fascinating articles. As I look at the situation at our library regarding the possibility of a sorely needed new library building in the near future as well as the students that I work with on a day to day basis, there is a seeming contradiction in needs. When we recently surveyed a selection of twenty students regarding changes we had

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-14599543601911527392006-06-03T23:39:00.000-07:002008-04-09T16:29:28.438-07:00

I love working in an academic setting. I enjoy assisting students in finding information. I enjoy the more serious nature of requests you generally receive at the reference desk. However, I was reminded today of how nice public libraries are. My first memories of libraries come from the small public library in Brunswick, Missouri - a town with a population of 925 compared with approximately 7,800

C. Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311177440457025589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8990638302131903710.post-2520145015776841972006-05-23T22:09:00.000-07:002008-04-09T16:27:55.272-07:00

It seems elementary to those who have used libraries on a regular basis, or those who, like me, barely remember a time when they weren't in a library on a weekly basis, however it often times isn't. The proof is in the pudding because I still get the question at the reference desk:How do I find a book on ________?A touch of HistoryOnce upon a time, there was something called a card catalog. I'm

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