Archive for January, 2006

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

ALA becomes radical and militant

ALA has jumped on the button bandwagon again and has their own Radical Militant Librarian Button. To me it seems a little over the top. So you go with the homemade classics. Librarian Avengers has a nice design as well.

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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Library 2.0 contined

Walt provides a nice overview of Library 2.0 in his Cites & Insights Midwinter 2006 issue . I’m still reading it but my take on Library 2.0 still stands. Libraries are about people. “Library 2.0″ seems to be a rush to use technology, without considering how to use it. Like Walt, I think that “Library [...]

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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

A new semester begins

Today begins a new semester. Being back in classes will hopefully save me from myself. People spend their free time in lots of different ways. I usually work on web sites. Changes to this site went pretty well, my other projects didn’t turn out as planned. In attempting to integrate Stephanie’s blog and photo gallery [...]

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Monday, January 16th, 2006

&*@#! language on the rise

&*@#! language on the rise – Teachers, students say swearing is getting worse. My mom can probably back this story up, she sees behavior in her kindergarten kids now that used to be only in higher grades. I have to disagree with parts of this article. “Sucks” is not a swear word. Sure, it’s not [...]

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