oh, boy can time fly…

It’s time for me to reflect on LIS768… I can’t believe the end is here! This class has been a lot of things to me. I feel linked to everyone by wordpress, and enjoyed that aspect of becoming, in essence, our own social network. (Of course, that makes sense considering the name of the course [...]

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del.icio.us me

I’ve been doing the del.icio.us thing for quite a while now and I love it. It’s a great way to keep track of all the zillions of new things I find on the Net everyday. And I love the social aspect of it – nothing better than checking my ‘Links Saved For You’ page and [...]

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Lost on YouTube!

For a class project classmate Chris Breitenbach and I decided to create a short video documentary exploring the ups and downs of the space at The Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago. This video is the outcome of our work. Looking at the space through Library 2.0 goggles we found several issues with signage and [...]

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Give One Get One

This is an amazing program that I have been meaning to post on my blog for a couple of weeks now. Essentially, Nicholas Negroponte from MIT devoted himself to developing a laptop that was tough enough and affordable enough to essentially give away so that children in developing countries could have one. He did it, [...]

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Can you surf the web at Starved Rock?

Well, of course you can – at the Utica, IL public library! Earlier this week I was on a little vacation out near Starved Rock in Illinois. It just so happened that I had a major group project due in class during my vacation, and had only minor internet access where I was staying. Still [...]

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Me, bugs, and library fines

I’ve been a bit absent from my blog over the past couple of weeks. Between one thing and another life has kept me busy, or sleeping in bed trying to kill icky sick bug things… And then, most importantly, I have not been inspired. But this week that all changed. Okay, well not everything, but [...]

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It’s a small world…

Last spring during Teen Tech Week I premiered the MySpace page I created for Brookfield Public Library’s young adults. I’m not sure how many hours I spent on seeking out my contacts, but I accumulated a good number in the three digits before MySpace shut it down. I have since restarted it (new myspace page [...]

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Annoyed by Ning

I’ve been struggling with Ning all day trying to figure out why when I log in to Ning it tells me I have no networks, but I can log in individually to each of the three networks I’ve joined. (all using the same email)  To top it all off I’ve just figured out that I [...]

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I so need this!!

A game that trains you to stop stressing!!  I love it – it’s brilliant!  I want it now….  Please??

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So many places to be social online – so little time!

I’ll admit it, sometimes I have a hard time keeping up with all my sites, not to mention my emails and rss feeds. I’m on MySpace, Flickr, del.icio.us, Library Thing, Second Life, recently started a page on Facebook, yesterday signed up on Ning, and I’ve signed up so many other places that I’ve even yet [...]

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