My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/30/2010 thru 5/6/2010 1.very interesting! Social Media Withdrawal: What Happens When Kids Give Up Their Connections – fascinating! Definitely worth reading. Among the top findings Students use literal terms of addiction to characterize their dependence on media. Students hate going without media. In their world, going without media means going without their friends and family. Students show no significant loyalty to a news program, news personality or even news platform. Students have only a casual relationship to the originators of news, and in fact don’t make fine distinctions between news and more personal information. They get news in a disaggregated way, often via friends. 18- to 21-year-old college students are constantly texting and on Facebook—with calling and email distant seconds as ways of staying in touch, especially with friends. Students could live without their TVs and the newspaper, but they can’t survive without their iPods. 2. Gallery: 8 Tablets That Aren’t Made by Apple 3. Rethinking the professionalism of librarians; an MLS does not a professional librarian make via @level250geek from 10 Reasons Why “Professional Librarian is an Oxymoron” Librarians Have No Monopoly On The Activities They Claim There Are No
Read This
I Wrote a Chapter for The Readers’ Advisory Handbook!
I’m excited to announce that The Readers’ Advisory Handbook is now out! Over a year ago my friend, and awesome librarian, Kaite Mediatore Stover asked if I would be interested in writing a chapter for her readers’ advisory book. She wanted me to address the online aspects of RA. I’m more of a blogger than an article or book writer but Kaite convinced me it was worth it. I am honored and humbled to be included with the contributors to this book. Check it out! Part I Getting to Know Your Materials Chapter 1 How to Read a Book in Ten Minutes, Jessica E. Moyer Chapter 2 Nonfiction Speed Dating, Sarah Statz Cords Chapter 3 How to Listen to a Book in Thirty Minutes, Kaite Mediatore Stover Chapter 4 How to Read a Graphic Novel in Five Minutes, Erin Downey Howerton Chapter 5 Keeping Up: Genre Studies as Continuing Education, Lucy M. Lockley Part II Reviewing and Evaluating Materials Chapter 6 Reviews and Annotations for Fiction and Nonfiction, Lynne Welch Chapter 7 Reviewing Audiobooks, Sue-Ellen Beauregard Chapter 8 How to Review Graphic Novels and Manga, Jessica Zellers Chapter 9 Reviewing and Evaluating Reference Materials, Jessica E. Moyer Part III Marketing, Promoting, and Sharing Materials Chapter 10 Passive Readers’ Advisory: Bookmarks,
Top Ten Links Week 16
My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/16/2010 thru 4/22/2010 1. NYTimes: Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley – Sexism is still alive in Silicon Valley and pretty much everywhere else including libraries. 2. NYTimes: Web Coupons aKnow Lots About You, and They Tell – love coupons? Me too, but make sure you know what information you’re giving up when you get web coupons. 3. Two magazines, Newsweek and New York Teacher, offer competing views of what it will take to fix our schools via dmlcentral- the article the link goes to looks at two magazine covers but its worth actually reading the articles the covers are about. 4. Tim O’Reilly Explains the Internet of Things via mlx – be sure to read the article too 5. Are we surrendering our privacy too easily? Intriguing online conversation on MemeBurn via @dmlcentral – an absolute must read if you are thinking about privacy even a little. 6. Facebook’s move ain’t about changes in privacy norms - If you are looking for well thought out responses to claims that privacy is dead danah boyd is always dead on. Here is another great post from her about
Top Ten Links Week 17
My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/23/2010 thru 4/29/2010 1.Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline – a must read. You know privacy settings on Facebook have been changing but just seeing the time line will put it in perspective. 2. CIOs say IT should not block socianetworking sites via @sabram 3.Texting and cellphones being used successfully in fight against malaria via @dmlcentral – love stories about tech being used to save lives Using a mix of text messages, Google Maps and cloud software, organizers of a pilot program backed by IBM, Novartis and Vodafone believe they saved hundreds of lives in a few short months on the malaria-wracked African continent. Simply by tracking inventory in remote areas with greater efficiency, the anti-malaria groups were able to increase the chances that any given clinic would have life-saving medicine on hand by 300 percent. 4. Change is Hard Because Self-Control Wears You Out - Sources of Insight via @buffyjhamilton – a good look at why change is so hard 5. great read! 25 Lessons Learned from Seth Godin via @buffyjhamilton @presentationzen – also includes top 10 quotes and a list of quotes by subject. Handy
Top Ten Links Week 15
My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/9/2010 thru 4/15/2010 1. New blog post: You Are Only As Good As Your Last Customer Interaction via @theREALwikiman It’s really hard to do, by the way. It doesn’t take a genius to point out that being nice to people will improve reputations; of course it will. But actually applying that maxim to the full, particularly five minutes before you’re due to close with an annoying patron who isn’t showing you any courtesy at all in return, is often easy to duck out of. But it’s worth sticking with it, for the good of all of us. 2. The Passion to Innovate Innovation is a big fat generic concept in most corporations — like life on other planets or ending the war in Iraq. Unless the individuals within a given organization have a genuine sense of urgency, personal ownership, and an authentic passion for innovation, nothing much will happen. Innovation begins within the mind of each person. Corporate initiatives that fail to awaken the basic human instinct to innovate are doomed, no matter how many pep talks, tote bags, or t-shirts proliferate. 3. Database Delight Online Training: Report
Reading
