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Even though it’s my day off work today, I logged into OPAL to participate in Brenda Hough‘s and Michael Porter‘s “Top-Notch Technology Training for Patrons” presentation. I got some great ideas for technology training classes to have at MPOW and how to do those classes. Erica Reynolds made a great comment about library staff getting [...]
Overall, I had a good library school experience. You know me, I’m not one to complain. But reading Meredith Farkas’ blog post about LIS education and training has got me thinking. Thinking, of course, leads to blogging. So, here we go. In both my core courses and my electives, here’s some of what I learned [...]
Chris Harris speaks the truth: Filter a website, and you protect a student for a day. Educate students about online safety in a real world environment, and you protect your child for a lifetime. (Found via washtublibrarian.)
Ah, Michael Gorman! That salty ALA President who sees blog people everywhere! He looks upon their works and despairs! I first encountered this Gorman quote– If you believe, as I do, that there is a crisis in library education that threatens the very existence of libraries and librarianship, you are likely to draw a negative [...]
