Hot Games for Fall 2008 (1)
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The titanic battle of musical rythm games happens this Fall, when both Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band II will be released. Both are sequels to hugely successful games, and both games up the ante in their own way. Guitar Hero World Tour eschews the solo guitar as the ideal of rocking and adds the rest of the band--drums, microphone, and bass. The game setup is similar to Rock Band but there are now ...
Tech-Savvy Teens Can Help Design Your Library (2)
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I think one of the coolest things about a library is that in addition to the service that it provides directly, it is also a forum. Each library serves a community and in turn, that community uses the library to discuss and learn more about who it really is, what its needs are and how they can be addressed. Libraries are the leaders in serving their communities, but only because they allow these communities to ...
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Stephanie Willen Brown said:
yay especially for Palmer & Williamsburg, western Mass. libraries who will be participating in this grant!
Library Technology in a Slow Economy (1)
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This past weekend CBS News ran this report, which examines how in an economic downturn, many families using their libraries for low-cost fun and entertainment. While it’s clear that a rough economy increases the demand for public library services, that hardly means we’re recession proof. From Boston and D.C. to California, hard times have meant budget cuts for libraries. (check out ALA’s Funding News page). The effects of these budget cuts affect all aspects of ...
Keeping the Library Relevant: A Tour of the Georgia Tech Library Learning Commons (3)
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While in Atlanta in May for SOLINET, Michael Casey and I had the opportunity to tour the Georgia Tech Library Learning Commons. I've followed the blogging of Brian Mathews for some time at The Ubiquitous Librarian, and am always happy to read about some new innovation or way of thinking about academic libraries at his institution. Joining us for the afternoon was Laura Savastinuk, Michael's co-author for Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Service, ...
The Ever-Growing World of Gaming in Libraries (1)
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It seems like the role that gaming plays in libraries is expanding exponentially. What once seemed like a trend is now a deeply entrenched part of our profession. Gaming is playing a bigger and bigger role in academic, public and school libraries all over the world and librarians are not only increasing their gaming content and its availability, but are also using it prominently in library programming and public service. Our colleagues have been working ...
Be The Change You Want to Be, and Other Best Practices for Social Software in Libraries (1)
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In just 12 months, from the time ALA Techsource published Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software, the influx of 2.0 type tools, books, articles about the tools, and conference presentations has been overwhelming. So much excellent content to take in! For my report this year -- Web 2.0 & Libraries, Part 2: Trends and Technologies –- I wanted focus the “Best Practices” on the bigger picture instead of a list for each ...
The ALA Annual Tweet-Report (1)
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First up, let’s get the obvious out of the way: Folks at ALA 2008 in Anaheim, California were all “A-Twitter!” Of course there was also much Flickring, texting, blogging, IMing and any other 2.0-ish, social-networkey “ing” you can name going on as well. Twitter, however, seemed to be on everyone's mind and at many people's fingertips -- amongst what I heard referred to as the Twitterati. And, I must confess: I thoroughly enjoyed participating in ...
