What does this photograph and this beach at Asilomar have to do with libraries, you might ask?  It’s from a place that I find irresistible.  Taken during a conference I find irresistible–a conference that keeps me coming back for more.Ever.
Topics: "David Lee King" "Joyce Valenza" "Doug Johnson" "Intern, Paul Holdengraber, Web 2.0

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   In their article in School Library Journal, Things That Keep us Up at Night, Joyce Valenza and Doug Johnson have  given us much food for thought.   They are earnestly  concerned about the survival of school librarians and libraries if we...
Topics: "Joyce Valenza" "Doug Johnson" "School Library Journal", Leadership, libraries

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In the last few days I’ve been following the simmering discussions that spun off of work by Joyce Valenza and Doug Johnson, eminent librarians and leaders in our field, about the issue of 21st century librarians and what responsibility we all have..
Topics: Buffy Hamilton, doug johnson, Joyce VAlenza, school library journal, Web 2.0

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A panel discussion on databases at the SLJ Summit in D.C. raised some important concerns about database vendors. I think it would behoove them to listen to these concerns if they want their consumer market(k12 librarians and k12 students) to keep using..
Topics: databases, SLJSummit09 slj summit

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Time for a utilitarian post–and to clear the decks of some handy web apps I’ve run across via Twitter lately.One of my favorites is fur.ly. (thanks for the tip, David Jakes!)  This site is a teacher/librarian’s dream when making a...
Topics: fur.ly voicethread, Web 2.0

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