tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.comments2007-08-18T15:57:42.153-04:00Covs 2.0K Covshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510333978780035029noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-11069626308236217072007-08-18T15:57:00.000-04:002007-08-18T15:57:00.000-04:00When was this book written? Very interesting text....When was this book written? Very interesting text. What is Attleboro doing to discuss the book? Is the movie being shown?FSD artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08591770133743394238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-72660251238691876722007-07-28T07:54:00.000-04:002007-07-28T07:54:00.000-04:00Do you think that you will Tweet and Blog?Do you think that you will Tweet and Blog?Linda Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853164294638604335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-39468104067753399112007-07-27T14:39:00.000-04:002007-07-27T14:39:00.000-04:00I'm all for a big shift with the OPACs and I conti...I'm all for a big shift with the OPACs and I continue to be interested in the research about catalogs for children. In many ways I think creating usable OPACs for that age could filter up into the other groups.<BR/><BR/>Also, if the OPAC is easy for the patron, I think a lot of the "data" librarians are looking for will be created more naturally or seamlessly. It seems like it's easier to add a counter or Report into a patron focused program than the other way around, since web pages can give their creators that type of information via widgets and such.Covs97https://www.blogger.com/profile/00017000029321901193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-57562649006629443822007-07-27T14:06:00.000-04:002007-07-27T14:06:00.000-04:00And from me,yes, Linda, I hope student and teacher...And from me,<BR/><BR/>yes, Linda, I hope student and teacher reactions are positive. I was in my library again today rearranging computer tables and made this one arrangement that I think I'll use next year, but it still needs some tweaking. And even then, I know it will be a bit problematic. The big puzzle now is how to place the theft detector thing so it acts as an entry and a security device without being even more overwhelming than it is by its very nature.Covs97https://www.blogger.com/profile/00017000029321901193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-48965778464219861172007-07-27T14:01:00.000-04:002007-07-27T14:01:00.000-04:00My moms sent this to me via regular old email, but...My moms sent this to me via regular old email, but I'm adding it here, because it's so cute! <BR/><BR/>Hi,<BR/>I get so excited when I read your blog. You are one fabulous school librarian.<BR/>Congratulations on getting your rearrangement accomplished.<BR/>I'm glad I can pretty well picture it, though I imagine it's even better than my vision. Yes, send photos. I like reading all your analysis and thinking about how schools work and how things get implemented, or don't. I know you are willing to really help people through the process of doing something new, if they want to. Not just dumping stuff on them.<BR/>I am so proud of YOU!<BR/><BR/>Love,<BR/>MomCovs97https://www.blogger.com/profile/00017000029321901193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-3857308686639354452007-07-27T07:35:00.000-04:002007-07-27T07:35:00.000-04:00How very productive. It will be interesting to he...How very productive. It will be interesting to hear/see student and teacher reactions.Linda Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853164294638604335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-71840863183787361792007-07-27T07:34:00.000-04:002007-07-27T07:34:00.000-04:00But, for way too long the library world has only f...But, for way too long the library world has only focused - or primarily focused on the librarian use of the tools. So, the shift ends up needing to be big. It's really not totally an either or here but at this point it's pretty close to it. That is until things even out.Linda Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853164294638604335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-5117396981594301022007-07-25T18:54:00.000-04:002007-07-25T18:54:00.000-04:00Stace,I think some students would add their librar...Stace,<BR/>I think some students <I>would</I> add their library to their myspace or facebook accounts. Because I know a lot of college students who wanted to friend me (or other young profs) when they found out they were on these types of sites. As a person, it seems a bad idea. As an organization, I suppose it's smarter, but there's still this trick for me of seperating the place and the person. Sure it's all virtual, but the person who runs the library runs the page, and I fear it would be a reflection of the librarian instead of the library. That doesn't really make sense, but just reiterates my concern between the fuzzy lines of public and private sphere that things like Facebook and MySpace (and other things) can bring up...K Covshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13510333978780035029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-72112438469426588372007-07-25T15:45:00.000-04:002007-07-25T15:45:00.000-04:00Funny, I just saw a blog entry entitled "12 ways t...Funny, I just saw a blog entry entitled "12 ways to use Facebook professionally." If you're interested: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/24/12-ways-to-use-facebook-professionally/<BR/><BR/>I am not on Facebook (gasp!) and, um, I don't really understand why people are. I don't get how it works. I tried Friendster for a little while. I didn't find it interactive at all--yes, people could email me, but that was yet another email address I had to check. Why not just stick to my regular email? But I didn't update it enough to really get into it. And in an odd turn, I kind of understand why you would want to "friend" a store or a library--it's a way to get updates from someone/something where you want to know what's going on but can't pick up the phone or email to ask, hey, what's up? However, um, I don't have a big desire to interact with my actual real life breathing friends through a website. I'd rather call or email them...<BR/><BR/>Back to my own blog entry now! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-39101132284282463862007-07-21T09:39:00.000-04:002007-07-21T09:39:00.000-04:00I have the local library's webpage bookmarked and ...I have the local library's webpage bookmarked and go there once every few weeks to check out what's going on or look up books. I check my myspace page everyday. If I made the library my friend, I would see bulletins from them everyday on my front page. <BR/><BR/>The real challenge would be getting a teenager to make a library their "friend".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-65643272209980263132007-07-20T08:44:00.000-04:002007-07-20T08:44:00.000-04:00Here's a question for you - if our students (or te...Here's a question for you - if our students (or teachers) are using technology of some sort - Facebook, MySpace, etc. - shouldn't we become familiar with it so we know how it does and doesn't fit into the support that a library can and does provide? <BR/><BR/>YALSA has a MySpace as do several public and school libraries. They find this to be a perfect way to keep in touch with whomever the target audience is. Authors have MySpaces as a way to keep in touch with readers and several authors have said that this has been the best way for them to hear from readers and keep up with what their readers are thinking and reading.<BR/><BR/>MySpace and Facebook also provide really good marketing opportunities not just for stores by for librarians and libraries. The bulletins feature is a great way to get the word out about what's going on in the library. <BR/><BR/>I don't have any trouble with stores having space on MySpace and Facebook. It's just a new way to get their message out. We - meaning the public of any age - just have to learn how to work within that kind of marketing. (Just like we do with magazine ads, TV ads, and such.)Linda Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853164294638604335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-79868597839355724042007-07-16T15:49:00.000-04:002007-07-16T15:49:00.000-04:00I'm glad you're happy with your daemon. My friend ...I'm glad you're happy with your daemon. My friend Susan and I played with the site one afternoon, and neither of us liked ours. Even after a few attempts, I wound up with a chimp and she wound up with a spider-- what does that say about us?? We decided we're making our own daemons, although I can't quite decide what I want. At the moment I think Hedwig would be an excellent daemon, although she's kind of already taken. The perfect daemon will come to me, I'm sure :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-38203900039618794682007-07-16T14:42:00.000-04:002007-07-16T14:42:00.000-04:00perhaps I will do that this year, or every other w...perhaps I will do that this year, or every other week--once for tech stuff once for print stuff...so they don't think I'm trying to be a technology person, since we have a Tech dept of sorts.Covs97https://www.blogger.com/profile/00017000029321901193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-47080806040148464932007-07-16T14:40:00.000-04:002007-07-16T14:40:00.000-04:00I think Sunlink doesn't do WotM anymore, now Raint...I think Sunlink doesn't do WotM anymore, now Raintree sort of took it over. I do know there's a tech head in Cambridge who sends regular posts to the Cambridge PS, maybe I can look into that further...Covs97https://www.blogger.com/profile/00017000029321901193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-38968825941333128662007-07-16T08:43:00.000-04:002007-07-16T08:43:00.000-04:00What about once a week. It doesn't have to be big ...What about once a week. It doesn't have to be big and impressive. Simply something like, "This week's great tech find is..." Then you add one thing you heard about recently. Teachers don't need to know that it's not new to you. It's just new to them.Linda Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853164294638604335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-9508574777340999452007-07-16T08:41:00.000-04:002007-07-16T08:41:00.000-04:00A weed of the month podcasts would be fantastic. W...A weed of the month podcasts would be fantastic. What about contacting Sunlink and asking if it's something you could work with them on?Linda Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853164294638604335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-88450311238471884332007-07-08T20:53:00.000-04:002007-07-08T20:53:00.000-04:00Hey Kate, I really like your podcast criteria. I l...Hey Kate, I really like your podcast criteria. I like the idea that podcasting makes us all <I>This American Life</I> documentarians. I agree that the best podcasts are ones that flow like a story, that lead you through a conversation because they are aware that you are listening. I just hadn't gotten around to clarifying it that way for myself. Thanks :) ElisabethCRI coxswainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10653860623570198377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-2797756410083567202007-07-07T07:50:00.000-04:002007-07-07T07:50:00.000-04:00This public and private nature of things is one th...This public and private nature of things is one thing that I think about a lot. As I mentioned in the Skype calls last week, my Twitter posts are different with students in the mix than they are when it's just friends who know me as me not as their teacher.<BR/><BR/>Leo Laporte from TWIT - http://www.twit.tv/ - has been talking about this a lot recently. He has lots of social networking accounts but when he joined Facebook recently he decided that that was going to be the one place that he would keep just for his "real" friends. It seems to work well. I'm not on his Facebook but from what he says that really is his private space. He puts things there that the general public shouldn't know and since it's set as private he feels pretty comfortable that the general public doesn't have access.<BR/><BR/>I think that's how we need to start thinking. We have perhaps many public accounts for students and teachers but then we also have the one place - our home so to speak - that is just for the "real" friends.<BR/><BR/>Does that make sense?Linda Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853164294638604335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-17414054577477537802007-06-30T23:25:00.000-04:002007-06-30T23:25:00.000-04:00Some of my students last year were really into web...Some of my students last year were really into webkinz, but they mainly seemed interested in them as stuffed animals and collectibles. I wonder if it's less about getting youngsters hooked on social web networking and more about getting young girls interested in technology (and spending money on technology). My boy students were almost all into video games. Most of the Runescape players were boys (all but one, actually). The webkinz, however, mostly appeal to girls. Just a thought I had.<BR/>-StaceyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-17347504521360593932007-06-30T20:18:00.000-04:002007-06-30T20:18:00.000-04:00I found my daemon last semester in my YA lit class...I found my daemon last semester in my YA lit class when we read the GC, I forget what mine was... <BR/><BR/>I just found Grammar Girl this week, and I'm obsessed. I've always been a bit particular (and a little shakey in my own skill) about grammar, and that podcast just feeds every need I have. <BR/><BR/>My concern with everything that is available on the Internet, besides the sheer quantity of it, is authority control. Do we teach students the same way to check to see if a podcast is credible in the same way we teach them to check a website. Is there a way to teach this credibility?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-54324822616970248762007-06-29T12:28:00.000-04:002007-06-29T12:28:00.000-04:00yes, I'm sure I looked for "library" vids a few mo...yes, I'm sure I looked for "library" vids a few months back, and didn't see all of these options. I also find it interesting that Thompson Gale did this huge promotion via YouTube. Apparently they are planning another one soon that will involve Flickr.K Covshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13510333978780035029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-57805296929115144182007-06-29T09:03:00.000-04:002007-06-29T09:03:00.000-04:00I think it's really interesting the way libraries ...I think it's really interesting the way libraries are starting to use YouTube to market their stuff and themselves. What you find today on YouTube about libraries is very different than what you would have found even 6 months ago. It shows that libraries are starting to really think about taking on the technology and making it work for them.Linda Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853164294638604335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-81515831204620218492007-06-28T10:27:00.000-04:002007-06-28T10:27:00.000-04:00I should move that embedded image to it's own post...I should move that embedded image to it's own post! I just realized that people can rate my daemon right from this blog. I've seen it turn to a mouse, a bird, a cat, and now it's back to this jackel, but who's to say how long that will last...Covs97https://www.blogger.com/profile/00017000029321901193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-27259545300564458982007-06-27T20:25:00.000-04:002007-06-27T20:25:00.000-04:00First, yes the image works - at least in Firefox o...First, yes the image works - at least in Firefox on a MAC.<BR/><BR/>Second, as I read your post I thought to myself, isn't this the research experience we want students to have. They are engaged in the process finding connections from one place to another. So, I'm led to ask what is it that makes that interest and perhaps excitement happen so that research is more interesting than painful? Do you get what I'm asking?<BR/><BR/>On the topic of how to know what you need to know, here's my take. I use RSS feeds to keep track of the topics that I think are important or that I'm interested in. That's my world. But, then I also talk to people and hear what they are interested in. That way I learn new things.<BR/><BR/>I've been doing this for a few years and haven't felt like I'm missing something. I feel comfortable that I'll know what I need to know either via RSS text or podcasts and the people I encounter in real life.Linda Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04853164294638604335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317554260977122886.post-47131431681775850092007-06-27T17:53:00.000-04:002007-06-27T17:53:00.000-04:00I agree-the web, it's a crazy hall of mirrors--it ...I agree-the web, it's a crazy hall of mirrors--it just seems like a big ball with an endless amount of holes, weaving in an out of each other. I just feel like if I spent enough days doing what you did today(I've done my share today, too)then I will find the blogs and newsites that I like, monitor those, and be content. <BR/><BR/>it's that itchy feeling of wondering: What'd I miss?<BR/><BR/>Now I'm going to find my daemon!Eileen Parkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15270299803142468385noreply@blogger.com