My area of interest is high school librarianship. In searching 'groups' on LibraryThing, I found a group called "Librarians-in-Training who LibraryThing". The description of this particular group is: The place to be for Library and Information Science students of all levels to discuss changes in the field, schooling, and of course, books! I felt as if I had hit the jackpot. There were several books listed that I identified with such as Great Presidential Wit by Bob Dole and The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers. I chose The New Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman, a book which contains essays about authors and their most influential work. I think this would be an excellent book to use for collection development.
The tags associated with this book are literary criticism, reference, books and reading, non-fiction, reading, about books, literature
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Competency #4: RSS Feed
Using the ubiquitous and ever-helpful Google, I found the online version of the School Library Journal which covers a myriad of topics relevant to high school librarianship. In light of our 2.0 focus, I choose to link the Education Technology News section to my blog. Articles about using Wikis for book talks, internet safety for teenagers, the OLPC project, and various technology updates will be very helpful, especially for someone just entering the field.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Library 2.0 Initiative
Competency #3: Podcasts
I found a fabulous podcast that fits in perfectly with my library type (high school) and one of the themes of our course, using Web 2.0 technology.
This podcast is by Helene Blowers, Public Services Technology Director, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. It is an 8-1/2 week initiative to present Web 2.0 technologies such as blogging, Wikis, flickr, Technorati, You Tube, etc. to public and school librarians. Each week, a new topic is introduced and listeners are encouraged to explore and apply the new technology while having fun along the way. I found it to be a very engaging podcast which presents these new (and sometimes overwhelming) technologies in a very user-friendly manner.
I found this podcast using Google.
Library 2.0
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=audio&element_id=2140024294
I found a fabulous podcast that fits in perfectly with my library type (high school) and one of the themes of our course, using Web 2.0 technology.
This podcast is by Helene Blowers, Public Services Technology Director, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. It is an 8-1/2 week initiative to present Web 2.0 technologies such as blogging, Wikis, flickr, Technorati, You Tube, etc. to public and school librarians. Each week, a new topic is introduced and listeners are encouraged to explore and apply the new technology while having fun along the way. I found it to be a very engaging podcast which presents these new (and sometimes overwhelming) technologies in a very user-friendly manner.
I found this podcast using Google.
Library 2.0
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=audio&element_id=2140024294
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