Bad User or Bad Librarian?

I would like to share an experience that I had at a library the other day.  I live in a large metropolitan area where there are many library branches,  over 60 to be exact.  One day when I needed a book for class I went into my local branch and requested a single book.  At the time the library [...]

something funny

I am a loyal reader of Penny Arcade and they posted a funny librarian comic.  I thought I would share.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/08/03

Post #5 The Act of Creation

I took an entire year of photography in high school.  I learned how to use manual 35mm camera, form a composition, develop film and mat photos.  Developing my own film was a new experience for me.  I would be stuck in a dark little closet feeding film into its canister by touch only,Then taking it out into [...]

Post #4 Librarian Migrations

After an exhausting five days in Washington D.C. I return with many spoils from the great librarian migration of summer 2007 (aka ALA annual conference) .  With the amount of stuff I brought back I feel as though I have covered a lot of ground these past five days, armloads of books, tons of free bags [...]

Post #3 Wikis and Work

I have been thinking a lot about Wiki’s lately.  It’s a tool that I have been recently using a lot.  It seems like anyone can efficiently use Wikis for a multitude of purposes.  Personally, I have been using them in my class work for group projects.  I find that it is one of the most [...]

Post #2 Virtual Worlds; A Waste of Time?

Recently I read an article in Library Journal about Second Life.  I actually had some mixed feelings about this article; which did not have any thing positive to say about the virtual world.  The author claimed that he had been “wasting a part of my life that I’ll never get back”, and that “we have a fair [...]

Post #1 “Podcasting”

  I never really listened to podcasts before I got my nifty IPod and went to the ITunes store.  I was of the mind that you needed an MP3 player in order to get the most out of podcasts.  Boy was I wrong!  Almost all of the podcasts that I listen to (which are free) emphasize [...]

Hmmm…Erotic Readings?

  Reading about different library news reports I became aware of the different kinds of things that libraries are starting to do.  One of the more interesting ways that a library in Austria is reaching out to people is by using “erotic readings”.  Apparently these readings are recorded by an actress and then callers dial in [...]

This is my First Post

Hello all,
This is my first official post for LIS 753 at Dominican University.  The first one was just a practice post.

Hello world!

This is the birth of the blog!! This blog is in response to my LIS 753 class which deals with Internet fundamentals and web design.