Archive for October, 2008

Learning activities for basic research classes. What are yours? We mostly do lecture/demonstration and questions from students. That bores me. – FriendFeed

I love FriendFeed and I love pathologically helpful librarians. This is just one of a few examples from just today where someone asks a question to the gang on FriendFeed and gets a tidal wave of useful resonses.

to del.icio.us/bevedog/see_also on Oct 27, 2008

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I went to Internet Librarian and it was OK

Sun 26 Oct 2008, 8:18 pm

A wrap-up of my experience at Internet Librarian 2008, and some thoughts about a few posts regarding giving presentations.

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Head Over Heels: Literal Video Version

Thu 16 Oct 2008, 9:13 pm

A music video set in a library that was sill to begin with gets even sillier when you replace the regular lyrics with an overly-literal description of what’s happening on the screen.

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IM love

Wed 15 Oct 2008, 9:29 pm

Some people love our IM reference. And we love them back.

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Postcards from Library Camp of the West

Sat 11 Oct 2008, 11:39 pm

Some impressions and memories from Library Camp of the West, 2008.

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Sapping students’ initiative

Fri 3 Oct 2008, 5:24 pm

From Microball, a CC-licensed image by Flickr user SerenityRose. Mark Bauerlein–the man who recently published The Dumbest Generation (wouldn’t you love to be one of his students?)–has an opinion piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind: Slow reading counterbalances Web skimming. The good folks at the Chronicle moved [...]

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