Posted in Blogging, Images, Language, Reference on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
BlewSpace offers a nice, visual way to locate bloggers.
Via LibrarianInBlack.
The Europa Polyglotta map, published in mid-1700s, tries a completely different kind and even more fascinating mapping (for us linguists, at any rate):
“to show the concordances and differences between all the languages spoken in Europe by spelling out the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer [...]
Posted in Library 2.0, Reading, Reference, Service, Word soup on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
What James Rettig means with stealth information fluency is, roughly, informing library users (or students, in his words) about the library resources and catalog in addition to trustworthy resources online (presumably non-library ones) by using modern interactive tools and library systems.
What he’s basically advocating is user instruction that takes into account the changing times (new [...]
Posted in Career, People, Reference, Service, Studies on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Stephen Abram quotes data from New Paradigm (via YPulse) about what the NextGens want.
By this definition, I fall somewhere between Stephen and the Next Gens. (By another I’ve seen, I’m definitely Gen Y.) Whatever the case, I certainly find a lot of the Next Gen ideas appealing.
Stephen says (italicized comments are his):
They want to be [...]
Posted in Academic, Career, Cataloging, Reference, Studies on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | No Comments »
This morning I had an interview for an internship with the Assistant Director of the Bank Street College of Education Library. We chatted, and she showed me around. The library is not big, but meticulously taken care of. There’s an especially impressive collection of children’s material in a variety of formats. The staff is friendly, [...]
