Archive for the 'Library & Information Science' Category

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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Sunday, January 15th, 2006

Are you a Librarian?

I did pretty well on the test, the questions are pretty focused on American Library History, I’m pretty sure the questions I missed were the put Dewey and LC in the right order. I’m not that good of a cataloger. Questions about the test, such as the right answers,can be directed here.

Head Librarian [...]

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Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Library 2.0

Library 2.0 is a nice buzzword, but what does it mean? Right now “Library 2.0″ seems to be as well defined a term as “information society. Current thinking about Library 2.0 seems to center around library information technologies.
But it’s more technology centered than people centered. New technologies are pointless if they’re not used. Michael (and [...]

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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

The Information Society?

The DaVinci Institute - The Future of Libraries
“We have put together ten key trends that are affecting the development of the next generation library. Rest assured that these are not the only trends, but ones that have been selected to give clear insight into the rapidly changing technologies and equally fast changing [...]

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Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Little Red Book story a hoax

Remember that senior at UMass Dartmouth who was visted by federal agents after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s book on communism, “The Little Red Book”? Turns out he made the whole thing up. Made a great story though.

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