Community @ TTW

Agger, Michael. “The Internet Diet.” Slate.com. 7 June 2010.< http://www.slate.com/id/2255923/> (accessed 6 November 2010). Allen, Micah. “Snorkeling ’the shallows’: what’s the cognitive trade-off in internet behavior?” Neuroscience.com. 6 June 2010. < [Read more]

Introduction Our Library at This University uses social media, and we recognize that many staff and librarians do so in their private lives. Social media clearly present many opportunities to broaden communication between Our Library and patrons at This University and in The Town.  On the other hand, we must recognize that there is just as [...]

Introduction I monitored the Library of the College of DuPage, (COD) a two-year community college located in Glen Ellyn, IL from 30 September until 19 November. At the start of this project I went to the college’s home page and  noticed how difficult it was to move to the library Web page: there is no easily [...]

Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains , an expansion of his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” which appeared in The Atlantic in 2008,  raised questions about the benign or beneficial effect of the Internet.  While there have been other authors who have challenged the assumed benefits of Internet use [...]

Following the definitions of the readings, I have been a member of only one virtual community.  However, I have had experiences with online groups that supported committees whose members were geographically dispersed.  I count those also. My first experience with what I would call a virtual community fits within the goal-oriented community of…[Read more]

The three articles on the hyperlocal library published in Library Journal caught my attention in this module.  I think this is a growth area for libraries because we can organize and filter the information that describes the locality and the resources available in the area.  Let Google conquer the world, but the local library, through [...]

Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. The author  is a skilled writer and presents a wealth of scientific and historical information in a clear and readable style.  In ten chapters and an epilogue he uses scientific research on brain functioning, anecdotal reports, and…[Read more]

As I read the first article by Clive Thompson I felt shocked at what CEO Glen Kelman was doing, a residual reaction from the years I spent in corporate environments that were as transparent as stone internally and externally.  By the time I finished the article I was thinking that my experience would have been [...]

The readings and videos seem to fall into three groups: Nicholas Carr voicing skepticism about the effect of digital technology on culture and individuals, those on the other end of the spectrum voicing enthusiasm for the benefits and those in the middle simply pointing out that this is the way things are now so we [...]

I have mixed feelings, and thoughts, about what is unfortunately called Library 2.0 and the discussion of just how to define it.  On the one hand, what I read seems like a restatement of the traditional mission of libraries, providing patrons with the information they need, implemented through new technology.   The descriptions in the readings [...]

I expect to finish my MLIS degree at Dominican University next August.  I am most interested in working in an academic library, but working in a public library would be good too, as long as I can help people learn the skills they need to find what they want to know. I am one of [...]

Here is the URL for my blog: http://lis768.tametheweb.com/lesliepeet

I am quite new to blogging … we’ll see how this goes.  I am looking forward to this class and to learning a great deal.