Posted in Future, Library 2.0, Service, Tech on Sunday, April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a few months old now, but exciting nevertheless: the cell phone company Nokia along with the University of Cambridge (UK) have come up with a pliable cell phone. The Nokia Morph nanotechnology model is still in the concept stage, and, according to the LetsGoDigital article, it shows that nanotechnology might be able to [...]
Posted in Academic, Eh?, Service, Tech on Friday, November 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey apparently requires students to buy a cell phone from a specific carrier for security reasons.
At first I thought it was a joke. But no: the MSU Campus Connect Help Center has information and FAQs about the program. My husband, who’s teaching at MSU this fall and next spring, [...]
Posted in Library 2.0, Links, Service, Solutions, Tech, Web 2.0 on Saturday, November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
iLibrarian has made three winderful pages of Firefox add-ons that are useful for librarians. I learned more than I anticipated. (Did you know there are 250 downloadable Firefox themes?) Part three isn’t perhaps as diverse as one and two, but all are worth a look.
40 Useful Firefox Add-ons for Librarians Part 1, Part 2 and [...]
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 [...]
