Librarians Investigated for Playing Rock Band!

When we’ve got politicians like Rod Blagoevich out there doing the real pay to play thing I find it quite sad for people to focus on something like librarians playing Rock Band at work…  Come on people, let’s move on into the 21st Century!  We should be congratulating these librarians and their communities not condoning [...]

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A Third Space for Teens

The goal of my research this semester was to somehow bring together teens, libraries, and the arts with a proposal of how the principles of Library 2.0 could play a part in that.
Multiple studies have found the same evidence time and time again – an education in the arts undoubtedly increases the learning capacity and [...]

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Guitar Hero rocks!!

I have a new favorite thing…
I’m not sure why I haven’t played it before gaming night for class last week – we own the game at my library, and the teens love it. Granted they tend to want it all for themselves, but when I said to one of them, “How come y’all have [...]

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