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Is There a Place for Media Specialists Who Don’t Know Social Media?

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This should be a great discussion!!! Participate live – Thursday night.
Join us tomorrow on the Future of Education at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) when Joyce Valenza leads a discussion on the future of librarians and their role in education. Special guests: Buffy Hamilton, Cathy Nelson, and Carolyn [...]

I will work for chocolate!

These lovely quilted hot pads were given to the speakers at the NYLA/ SLMS meeting last week. And lots of chocolate bars.
Thanks to everyone who came to my two sessions at the NYLA/SLMS annual conference. The resources for the sessions are on my wiki.

Google Tools for Schools
Become an Information Superhero

There were so many good ideas [...]

Student book reviews linked to catalog

In a class last week, Jenny Brown and Silvia Lilly from the Bethlehem HS showed us how they were linking their students’ book reviews to their catalog. They save the reviews on their school server and then link in the 856 field. Pretty nifty simple trick. Try searching for Kite Runner.

ticTOCs Table of Contents Service

ticToCs aggregates the tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from over 400 publishers. It’s easy to search for journals by title, subject or publisher. From there it’s simple to view the tables of contents and link to the publisher’s sites. If your campus has full text access, you’re all set. Even without full [...]

Inauguration 2009 Pageflakes Pagecast

Check out the Unquiet Librarian’s pageflakes page for the inaguration. Nice work Buffy!
This screencast is still a work in progress, but you can see the latest feeds from our favorite bookmarks, news outlets, and TWITTER!  Stay tuned as I add more resources in the next few days!

Board Gaming and the AASL Standards

Beth Gallaway, aka Information Goddess, shared her recent presentation on Board Gaming and the AASL Standards on SlideShare.  See her blog post for links to her handouts for these  sessions. Sounds like it was a fun session.
Beth is also teaching an online course in February:   Get Your Game On, Online! That sounds like fun too!
Board Gaming [...]