Fluency in the Digital World

I’m intrigued by Karin Dalziel’s Chart of 4 Types of Information Literacy, although I would add “evaluating” to the first “information literacy” box.
Sadly, most libraries don’t teach her third and fourth…

Online Gaming Is More Popular than Facebook and YouTube

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Gaming Remains the Most Popular Online Entertainment Activity
“Playing games is still a more popular online activity in the U.S. than watching short video clips or visiting social networking websites, according to…

Google Gears Had Me at Hello

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During the last two years, pretty much every aspect of my life has changed, with things only now just starting to settle down. For the first time during that window, I took a month off (August) and am not doing any…

The Shifted Librarian » Beloit List for Librarians

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This year’s Beloit College Mindset List (for the class of 2011) came out yesterday. I love these lists because they point out to me how much things have changed since I was a teenager. I think of myself as being…

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Where’s the Library??

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A Kid’s-eye View of Laptop Design
“A group of kids from one of our local elementary schools has formed a ‘mini-laptop club.’ They don’t use electronic machines. Instead, these first-, second- and…

What Does GLLS2007 Stand for?

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