In his excellent blog post, “What’s ‘Print’?” Bud the Teacher poses a question that we as librarians confront every day as the nature of information sources changes, and one that I personally struggle with.  It’s a must read post for every...

I decided this fall to move my school’s library website to a blog, and decided to embed different user polls once a week; initially just for fun and to make the page more interactive. But lo and behold, I’ve discovered that the polls are a great way...

 A great deal of discussion about filtering regarding Skype and Facebook has been filtering through the blogs lately. Wesley Fryer has an excellent post on the subject, as do Jeff Utecht, Pat Hensley and Paul Wood. This isn’t a new issue of...

In one of my favorite movies, Desk Set, Katharine Hepburn’s character, a whip-smart librarian, faces off with the EMERAC computer that Spencer Tracy is bringing in to replace her and her staff.  (She does short circuit the computer by befuddling it,...

   Since today is Veteran’s Day, I wanted to share our improved edition of the Vietnam Wall project which our English 3AP students have created over the last four years.   Students research the lives of individual soldiers who fell in Vietnam,...