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!–more– DOWNLOAD Libraries and Emerging Mobile Technology: QR Codes and Augmented Reality, Beyond the Hype Libraries and Emerging Mobile Technology: QR Codes and Augmeted Reality, Beyond the Hype by J. Lauren Mondala is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License . Permissions beyond the scope of this license…[Read more]

Background In order to stay relevant, our libraries need to grow and change along with our communities. It has been well documented that libraries do a decent job serving their regular patrons, but there still remains an overwhelming population of users whom are not being reached. Internet capable phones are opening new avenues to where and [...]

Ashford, Robin. “QR Codes and Academic Libraries: Reaching Mobile Users.” College & Research Libraries News 71, no. 10 (November 2010): 526-530. Ashford, Robin. “QR Codes & Augmented Reality for Mobile Users.” Power Point presentation with audio narrative, Handheld Librarian Online Conference IV, LearningTimes, February 23, 2011. Handheld…[Read more]

YA Library 2.0 Project Resources YA Spaces by Marisa Bernstein & Emma Caywood Cruze, Karen D. “Northbrook Library Teen Space.” Personal interview. 25 Jan. 2011. Honnold, RoseMary. 101+ Teen Programs That Work. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2003. Print. Honnold, RoseMary. More Teen Programs That Work. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2005. Print. Loy, Heather,…[Read more]

For this project my group looked at Young Adult services and spaces and discussed their relation to library 2.0. We broke down the results into the following groupings: Check out all our resources here: Resources YA Spaces By Marisa Bernstein & Emma Caywood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_4wr7guOVw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdEnXI6bPJ4…[Read more]

Saratoga Springs Public Library Teen Room Social Media Policy Purpose In accordance with Saratoga Spring’s Public Library’s mission to inform, inspire and entertain, the library’s Teen Room engages with social media and encourages teen patrons to do the same. Social media is any form of online interaction where a participant can share…[Read more]

For the past five weeks, I’ve been thoughtfully stalking the Adler Planetarium’s web presence, also known as brand monitoring. While they are not a library, (they do have one, go Jill Postma), they offer the community of Chicago many information resources through  a variety of avenues. So where is The Adler Planetarium web chatter? Well, [...]

Dose your library or some library you know seem a bit lacking in the positive attitude department? If so, read on… . On more than one occasion in my past two years of experience as a library student I have had cause to feel unwelcome in the very institutions that I someday hope to work in [...]

-Albert Einstein Over the next two months I will be working on a research paper. The paper will explore the crosswalks of reality and digital information. Specifically mobile devices, augmented reality and their applications in the library world. I cannot tell you how excited I am to get to research this stuff. It’s hot, it’s cool, [...]

Way back in the day this social networking site called Facebook was launched. In order to become a member, you had to have a REAL college e-mail address. It was kind of like a not-so-secret club that only undergrads could be in. Having a rough understanding that only fellow undergrads, and generally only their ‘accepted [...]

Click either image below to view my Animoto context book report on Outliers by Malcom Gladwell

Librarian as information ‘pointer’ “Increasingly, a useful expert is not someone with (containing) all the answers but someone who knows where to find answers. The new experts have value not by centralizing information and control but by being great “pointers” to other people and to useful, current information.” (The Cluetrain Manifesto) As…[Read more]

” ‘Books are for use’ and the tribe wants to use our stuff – I’m hoping the next wave of librarians in the 21st Century find a million more ways to make collections accessible and friendly” (Ten Trends & Technologies for 2009, Tame the Web, Stephens). Me TOO! Being able to read and access information from wherever [...]

This is an exciting time to be involved in a profession that has community and civic value at its heart.  As the idea of ‘community’ has shifted with advances in communication technology, so have the needs of community members.  In order for a library to continue to be relevant it will need to evaluate what its [...]

I’ve been known to come down with a raging case of foot-in-mouth disease from time to time.  Who hasn’t really?  I’m still trying to get a good read on the Twitter culture and community.  The Annoyed Librarian recently wrote an article about  Exposing Yourself in LJ in which she (he?) strongly suggests carefully crafting an online [...]

I just started the participatory service & redesign readings for this week and might I say that the I really like this definition of Library 2.0 and had to laugh at the way it was brought up as the de facto standard.  I love when our course work is exciting, relevant AND amusing all at [...]

NPR kept me company this morning on my drive to class and brought my attention to the crisis in Tunisia.  Interestingly enough, the Tunisian young people were responsible for organizing protesters through social media sites as well as breaking through the numerous firewalls put up by their government.  Go Tunisian youths!  Nice work freeing that [...]

Hi LIS 768! I’m very excited to be starting this blog and sharing with you all. I’ve been putting off blogging for quite awhile and am thrilled to have the excuse, the platform and the topic to blog about. I posted a little bit about myself here.  I’ve done a lot of work with kids programing in [...]