Ei8ht

Sun 27 May 2007, 10:47 pm

Josh Neff tagged me for some meme about eight random things. So I memed-up.

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How we done it…bad?

Thu 24 May 2007, 10:31 pm

“How we done it good” is all well and good, but I want to hear how you done it bad.

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Need more librarians

Mon 21 May 2007, 2:48 pm

Neat photo from the Maker Faire. I wanna go next time!

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Walt Crawford

Mon 21 May 2007, 1:32 pm

Walt asks “Ever thought you or one of the groups you work for or with could use a Walt Crawford?”

It seems that due to the OCLC/RLG merger, Walt won’t have a job anymore come October. He runs down the details in his blog post, What’s next?

I’m not sure what more to say, except to wish [...]

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Information literacy for the K-12 set

Wed 16 May 2007, 10:19 pm

information literacy: find it, evaluate it, use it, cite it
Originally uploaded by Hatchibombotar.

We had a preview of the kindergarten that Luke will be attending next year. I snapped this photo in the computer lab, which had lots of these handwritten posters about finding and citing stuff for reports (aimed [...]

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I love my co-workers

Wed 16 May 2007, 7:03 pm

The Tutt Library Precision Book Truck Drill Team shakes up the campus.

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So what can we teach using Wikipeida?

Thu 10 May 2007, 11:06 pm

In a First Year Experience class this year, I had a chance to work with students on a Wikipedia writing project. I hope it taught them more generalizable skills for understanding and critiquing potential sources in their academic writing.

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So what can we learn from Flickr?

Tue 8 May 2007, 10:34 pm

As I prepare a presentation entitled “Web 2.0 and the Digital Library (or, Learning from Flickr)” I confess to losing a little faith in the idea of tagging and user-contributed comments in library applications.

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Phew

Mon 7 May 2007, 4:35 pm

So according to the Pew Internets Quiz, I’m a “Connector.” Whatever. Walt Crawford is a “Lackluster Veteran,” and the more I think about that, the funnier it gets. Give me one word to describe Walt, and I would chose “lustrous.” True. (Though I guess it is Michael Porter showing the most “lust” in this photo. [...]

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lolbrarians

Fri 4 May 2007, 12:22 pm

Pharoahbrarian
Originally uploaded by Hatchibombotar.

If you have a low tolerance for silliness (or four letter words used in the service of silliness), you might as well stop here.

As you may have seen on librarian.net, there is a LiveJournal group called lolbrarians. There you will find photos of librarians with silly [...]

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Small victories

Tue 1 May 2007, 9:53 pm

A lucky win on a reference question.

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