From the monthly archives: March 2012
Have you found and explored the Google Search Education website? I was lucky enough to have reference maven Carole Leita remind me today that not only is it still out there, but it’s been beefed up to include lesson plans (shared under the Creative Commons licensing that [...]
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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart discusses the art (or is it a science?) of biography.
Titles mentioned in this podcast:
Burns, Mary Mehlman. CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND THEIR CREATORS Partridge, Elizabeth. JOHN LENNON: ALL I WANT IS THE TRUTH THIS LAND WAS MADE FOR YOU AND ME: The [...]
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A popular library rallying cry in these defunded times calls for developing methods ”supporters” can use to advocate for “our” institutions. I see it in the way we want to draw attention to “values” we provide through readers’ advisory promotions, collection maintenance directions, and programming targeting youth. We want to demonstrate how thoroughly we learned [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss (in their own inimitable way) and article that appeared in Time magazine on March 17, 10 Ideas That Will Change the World.
Looking at trends, they agree, makes us look at how we do things and [...]
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As one librarian/information specialist/trainer to another, I’m curious to hear what and how you are thinking about the breaking news from Google on the “refreshment” of search responses. If you’re a public library administrator, you’ve been working with staff to develop their understanding of how to be effective and efficient professional researchers. [...]
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When somebody says “customer service” what comes to mind?
Is it a smiling person using open gestures and asking how they can help? That’s where most people’s minds go. What’s missing is all the things that happen behind the scenes. Customer service starts long before and far away from the public service desk and involves [...]
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In this eclectic podcast, Infopeople’s bookmeister Michael Cart talks about hip hop lit (aka street lit or urban lit) then segues to, among other things, graphic novels and the always controversial topic of the world of ebook publishing and pricing.
Cited in this podcast:
Brown, Claude. Manchild in the [...]
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