Check out “Lessons Learned: How College Students Find Information in the Digital Age” (PDF – 3MB), released on Tuesday 12/01/09 by Project Information Literacy.  Karen Schneider says “If you can make time for reading just one professional report over...

Excellent article from the BBC: “Children who use technology are ‘better writers’.” “Ha!,” I say to all the anti-tech-elitists who said that tech rots children’s brains and prevents them from writing well. Results from this survey done by the...

The UK website The List posted “Five Reasons to Go See Depeche Mode” (for those of you who don’t know DM, see their website and the music video for DM’s best song ever — OK, see DM’s second best song ever too).  So, picking back up…the story was quite...

Michael Stephens has a wonderful presentation (available as a PDF) entitled: The Hyperlinked Library in Times of Change and Challenge. As with all of Stephens’s presentations, I come away not only with more ideas and thoughts about my library’s...

I get a lot of questions about what kind of policy to write for the public to get them to “write the right stuff” on the library’s website.  Much of this stems from a fear that every library user will log on and write nasty things, use profanity, and...