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 [...]

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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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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’ [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Meebo me!

If you look down and over to the right there, you’ll see my Meebo widget – I think they’re great and wish I had more time to be ‘online’. (I like Chris B.’s ‘leave a message’ add-on.)
So, I decided to go in search of a library using Meebo. The library where I work [...]

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Trade me!

Lookee, lookee I’m on a trading card!

My creation, originally uploaded by ariafury.
I’ve been meaning to do one of these since some of my friends made them in Michaels 753 class last summer. Sometimes I don’t know where the time goes… Anyway, finally I’m trade-able!
Anybody wanna trade?

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Maricopa did what?!

Okay, I’ll admit it. My initial reaction when I heard the news of the Maricopa library dumping Dewey. I was immediately aghast, and against it. My instinct wanting to keep Dewey said, “Well, sure we have always talked about needing better signs to help find books in Non Fiction, but that’s all [...]

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