Monthly Archives January 2010

Content Creators and Consumers (and the iPad)

One of the coolest things about today’s internet is that we all can be creators of information as much as we are consumers of it. It’s something I like to make sure we talk a lot about in my information literacy class. Old internet=read only (unless you were geeky enough to understand HTML and how [...]

My Nook’s First Fieldtrip

As you might know, I got a Nook for Christmas last week. (I actually had to look it up to see that it was that recent… I just finished my first book on it last night!)
One of the features I was really interested in is that Barnes and Noble promised additional content/features when at the [...]

My Library Day In the Life

Yay! It’s Library Day in the Life time again! I am a big supporter of this project. I think something like this, while I was in graduate school, would have helped me think a bit more about the different types of work in the field and what I might want to end up doing.
In the [...]

My First ALA Learning Post!

I’m very excited to have joined the gang over at ALA Learning, and today was my first post! We’re starting the new year with getting to know you posts, so that’s what I have over there. Here’s a little of what you will find:
What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes?

I’ll teach pretty [...]

My Nook Has Arrived!!

I have been interested in the idea of a dedicated ebook reader for some time. The first ebook I bought was to read on my old Palm. That worked great for my Dad, but I didn’t really enjoy that particular reading experience. I also thought the book was way too expensive (I think it was [...]