Ok, so this has nothing to do with libraries and the massive amount of finals work I’m doing now, but I just discovered that The Phantom Tollbooth, one of the greatest movies ever made (no, I don’t love hyperbole at all), is NOT available on DVD. This is a travesty, people. Thankfully, someone else agrees [...]
Archive for April, 2008
The Phantom Tollbooth
Posted in books on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Students Disappoint Me, Yet Again
Posted in academia, technology on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Twenty-four students at the University of Central Florida accepted a challenge from one of their teachers to go tech-free for five days. No cell phones, no email, no computers, video games, television, iPods (well, you could use your phone or computer for work or school, but that was it). Only two students made it through [...]
The Digital Divide: Some thoughts on our panel discussion
Posted in library stuff, technology on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our panel discussion last Monday went well, despite our rather haphazard planning process. Of course, my foray into moderating exposed some of my lack of public speaking abilities: I completely jettisoned the whole introduction I spent the weekend writing in favor of letting the speakers get right to it, and most of the questions we [...]
Small Libraries and the Digital Divide: Jessamyn’s Slides
Posted in technology on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The panel yesterday on the Digital Divide went well, though I kind of chickened out and neglected to deliver my carefully crafted introduction. Doh. I’ll have more to say about what was discussed when i have a few minutes (hopefully tonight), but I wanted to be sure to link to Jessamyn’s slides, which are worth [...]
The Digital Divide: Rural, Urban, and International Issues
Posted in library stuff, technology on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Can’t believe I haven’t posted this here yet! Bad blogger.
If you’re in Boston on Monday, Simmons College GSLIS is hosting a panel discussion on the Digital Divide. Come and hear Jessamyn West of librarian.net, Susan O’Connor of the Timothy Smith Center, and Pat Oyler, Simmons GSLIS faculty member, talk about access issues in the US [...]
