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E-mail is for older people, teens say in survey (from Yahoo! News)
Here’s an interesting news story: E-mail is for older people, teens say in survey. According to a recent survey, teens (age 12 – 17) think email is for grown-ups (even though 90% of the kids DO have an...
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CIL2006, Day 3: Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie spoke about younger people… here’s what he had to say: Younger users: they made a recent TIme Magazine cover – “Are Kids too Wired for their Own Good?” 8 Realities of Millenials: Distinct...
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CIL2006, Day 3: Gary Price – Best of Resource Shelf
Most important – why do we need to know all this stuff Gary talked about? Well – we’re the information go-to… we know our collections. We also need to learn online resources, so when people come asking...
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Law Professor Bans Laptops in Class
From this article… a professor has banned the use of laptops in her class. The article says “Professor June Entman says her main concern is that students are so busy keyboarding they can’t think and...
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More Myspace Thinking
I’ve been looking at some library myspace accounts lately, notably Steele Creek Library and Denver Public Library’s eVolver Myspace accounts. Both are way cool. Steele Creek, especially, has a nifty...
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Don’t Set Your MySpace Page Profile to Private!
I just saw Plainfield Public Library’s MySpace page (via Michael Stephens). Well, not really – take a look at the screenshot – their MySpace profile is set to private. So what? Well… it’s a usability...
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Teen Tech Week Mini Grants
Some of you might have heard about this – just passing it along: YALSA has some Teen Tech Week mini grants to give out to some lucky libraries! From Yalsa’s website: “Thanks to our 2008 Corporate...
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Online Storytimes by Wake County Public Libraries ROCK
Kevin Smith just pointed me to Wake County Public Libraries‘ series of online storytime videos. Wake County made them to support their local Every Child Ready to Read initiative. They’re nicely done –...
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Technology Trends in Libraries & the Emerging Generation
Technology Trends in Libraries & the Emerging Generation from David King I gave this presentation last week at the Michigan Library Association Spring Institute. Fun times! It’s a different...
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Snapchat in Libraries
Ah – Snapchat. Yet another newish social media channel (launched in 2011). One that started out very niche, and did something slightly different with posts – they disappeared after a set amount of...
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