a space for grace

Spent a lot of time reading and thinking this week about what Library 2.0 means.  For me the 2 represents two-way, as in two way communication between the library and its patrons, customers, clients or users. The communication allows the library to be responsive in providing resources and services its community wants.  This is not […]

Going through this week’s discovery excercise I was already quite familiar with  iGoogle, delicious, and Twitter.  I set up an iGoogle tab with RSS feeds of all my 559 classmates blogs and I love it! It looks great – you can see the most recent three headlines from every blog laid out in its own […]

So my 8 year old daughter has been begging for a Nintendo DS because she’s “the only one in my class who doesn’t have one” … Well, I know this isn’t true for one thing, and for another, I don’t think you have to spend a lot of money on games and toys (when she […]

One of the best things about working in a library is getting to browse the new titles as they come in.  This one caught my eye right away and is on my to read list:  The dumbest generation: how the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future (or, don’t trust anyone under 30) […]

I don’t know what the problem is, but I find with all types of social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs), once I’m up and running I feel a pressure to post and my mind goes blank….

Just created this blog and it was quite quick and painless! Hope the rest of this Lib 559M course offers such immediate gratification.