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So now that I am finally done with the semester I have time to take a look back on my experience in LIS 768. Overall it was a very great class. My eyes were opened to many new technological trends that people and teens are in to. I no longer feel the need to fear [...]

During my examination of Digital Natives or Millennials, I was surprised by the varying amount of research on the topic of “teens and internet safety, privacy, and identity.” A lot of the media portrays young-adults as aloof, consuming beings who do not pay any attention to their physical surroundings and are only concerned with their [...]

So here is a list of most of the articles I have found to use for my paper. There may be more when I actually write the entire thing, or some of these may not be used but here we go. Born Digital by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Library 2.0 by Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk “Is [...]

I will have to start off by saying that I couldn’t have asked for a better group. Our communication styles meshed well together making for a very enjoyable group project. Once we picked our topics in September, our group decided over our sign group discussion board to leave it alone until we met face to [...]

For my social media policy I decided to focus on a fictional high school named after my cat. I chose a high school setting because I think that might be the age group I am headed towards. It’s still hard to pick in the School Library Media Program which age range to work with. I think [...]

For this assignment I thought about following a larger library, possibly one in Chicago, but then I was drawn back to my roots and decided to check out one of my hometown libraries, the Kankakee Public Library. Let me first start off by saying that I absolutely love the library system in the Kankakee/Bradley, IL area [...]

So when I originally received the syllabus for this class I thought that paper topic 2 would be the route to go. Then when I was finished with Born Digital I wasn’t quite sure that I wanted to devote 12-14 pages of my life to this book. I started to panic a little when no topics [...]

Social networking. According to my demographics, a 27 year old female in grad school, I should be fully immersed in all kinds of social networking. I’m not sure what happened while I was in undergrad, but I never caught on to the whole myspace facebook phenomenon. I guess since I never joined, started to hear [...]

I want to first start off this blog post by saying that the picture from “The Visitors” article from ALA Tech Source might be the coolest librarian picture I’ve ever seen. You guys look like an 80′s metal band instead of librarians and I say that with the greatest respect possible. And saying that brings me [...]

Palfrey, John, and Urs Gasser. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. New York: Basic Books, 2008. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives . What exactly does it mean to be “born digital” and why do we as librarians need to understand these “digital natives?” According to Palfrey and…[Read more]

In today’s world of modern technology it seems like everything we do is out there for the world to see. This may not be beneficial for our personal lives but for the functioning of the library, it’s a good thing. As librarians we should not be secretive about how or why we perform our jobs. [...]

First I want to apologize that I did not get this post up this weekend. I was at the Music Box Massacre, Chicago’s only 24 hour horror movie film festival and for some reason thought I would have enough time to get this done too. Needless to say I passed out very early last night, [...]

After reading the articles and watching the two youtube videos about participatory service and redesign in the library, I am going to have to agree with most of the articles. A good majority of the articles that we read were actually very informative and didn’t seem too biased on way or the other, they just [...]

Hopefully my intro post didn’t sound too bitchy, but I fear that it does. This is where I find a problem with these types of technology. It gives you the space to rant and rave, but when you do, you better be able to follow up with the consequences. The rest of my posts to [...]

Welcome to my blog for LIS 768. We just got done with our first online session for the class and it went well despite my computer timing out and kicking me off the elluminate website towards the end of class. It was extremely informative and calmed some of my nerves about the class. I don’t [...]