Will this plan help to reduce the digital divide? How can we make broadband Internet access available to families who already struggle to make the monthly bills? Efforts to increase the capabilities of networks “toward one gigabit to every community in America, through libraries, schools and community colleges” may help to extend access, but I suspect [...]
Posts Tagged ‘access’
Broadband to Stimulate the Economy?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged access, Internet, libraries, technology on March 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Licenced to Kill…Culture
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged access, Copyright & Intellectual Property, Google, libraries, preservation on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is society becoming bound and gagged by overzealous licencing? Will our culture be hamstrung by copyright? There’s cause for concern… Thanks to my friend Catherine Wilson for sending me a link to this article by Lawrence Lessig: For the Love of Culture: Google, copyright, and our future
Tulsa Library Staff Development Day
Posted in Community Relations & Advocacy, tagged access, event planning, libraries, Tulsa City-County Library on October 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On October 12, the Tulsa City-County Library (TCCL) was closed for Columbus Day and held their annual Staff Development Day at the Hardesty Library. I have been subbing at various TCCL branches when staff are sick or on vacation, so I was invited to attend Staff Development Day. The schedule for the event was as follows: [...]
Ethical Librarianship
Posted in Community Relations & Advocacy, tagged access, advocacy, children, community relations, ethics, libraries, public relations on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my Community Relations & Advocacy class, we are currently analyzing and discussing ethical dilemmas. One of the problematic situations is this: “A parents’ group, concerned with recently publicized accounts of children being stalked in the library by pedophiles, requests that the Children’s Department of the library be off-limits to everyone except children under the [...]
Spreading the News: Kindle vs. Smart Phones
Posted in Graduate Assistantship, tagged access, newspapers, technology on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an article from MediaShift comparing the usability of the Kindle and the iPhone with regards to newspaper content. And speaking of news, here’s a book review of Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy, by Alex S. Jones.
Pathfinder Creation and Field Testing
Posted in internship, tagged access, children, collections, internship, pathfinders, technology on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Creating pathfinders has put my blogging on hold for the last week, but I’m nearing the end of my internship path, and I will be field testing my pathfinders tomorrow during my advisor Doc Martens’s site visit. As it turned out, 30 pathfinders was a lofty project goal for the time allotted. As of today, [...]
Project Projections: Plans A, B and C
Posted in internship, tagged access, book talks, children, collections, genre, information seeking, information services, internship, libraries, OPAC, pathfinders, reader's advisory on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my goals for my internship at Hardesty Library is to develop a project that demonstrates many of the principles and skills I’ve learned through my LIS classes and my internship. I want a showcase piece that I can include as the keystone of my portfolio. Mr. Escobar asked me to develop plans for three possible [...]
Further reflections on Internship Day 1
Posted in internship, tagged access, children, internship, library, library & information studies on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On our tour through the library collections and facilities, Mr. Escobar drew my attention to features such as designated safe areas for wheelchair-bound customers in the event of a fire, and the location of safe areas in the event of a tornado. On the second floor, stepstools are provided to help customers to reach books on [...]
Assessment of the International Children’s Digital Library
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged access, children, cognitive styles, digital collections, information behavior, models, technology on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My final project in LIS 5053: Information Users in the Knowledge Society involved the preparation of a detailed critique of the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) web site as an information resource and recommendations for improvement. By analyzing characteristics of the target audience and the web site’s application of information behavior models, cognitive and learning styles, design [...]
Amazon’s Algorithm “Glitch”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged access, books, freedom of expression, information seeking, right to read on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of us who support freedom of expression and the right to read, this is rather disturbing…
Thoughts re: Robert Taylor’s Info Seeking Model
Posted in Graduate Assistantship, tagged access, information seeking, information services, library & information studies, models on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a discussion about Robert S. Taylor’s article “Question-Negotiation and Information Seeking in Libraries,” there was some uncertainty as to whether Taylor is describing information behavior or information seeking. I think at the beginning of the article, when Taylor talks about the various actions a user may engage in before ever coming to the library [...]
Collection Cultivation and Curation
Posted in digital collections, tagged access, archaeology, digital collections on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking about what kind of digital collection I can develop for my class this semester. At first I thought I might try to develop a collection of story-time podcasts like the Denver Public Library–perhaps choose a theme and make recordings of myself reading several children’s stories within that theme. But the Denver Library [...]
History of Information Management
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged access, archives, books, library, literacy, technology on September 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s something from an online discussion I’d like to preserve here. I’m not posting it for class credit–just for my own interest (or vanity). These thoughts stem from reading Anthony Grafton’s article, “Digitization and its Discontents,” The New Yorker, November 5, 2007. I agree with Grafton that humankind has struggled with information glut and access difficulties [...]
