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At the beginning of the semester, Michael shared his thoughts on class success by suggesting that we explore, be curious, trust, play, try things out, and consider the possibilities.  I think we’ve had the opportunity to do all of these!  Our class has been like a diving board by allowing us to leap into new [...]

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Twitter Audio Report

Twitter Report References

Twitter is not helping me pretend to be anonymous.  Where is my hunchback disguise?  Since the Grand Rapids Public Library is mentioned in our class lecture, I figured I’d investigate their tweets, and found a lot of interesting library-related stuff and not-so-library-related stuff.  By reading the GRPL tweets  and those of other libraries, I’m…[Read more]

Everybody seems to have something to say about QR codes, so I’ll add to the comments.  First of all, I agree with Sean Cummings that much of QR code usage now is a waste of time.  I laugh when I imagine him personally testing over 200 random QR codes found in advertising.  The horrors of scanning [...]

I chose to develop a social media guideline policy statement regarding the restructuring of the Santa Rosa Junior College Libraries Facebook page.   SRJC already has a Facebook page, but previously it was strictly managed by just one technical service librarian–no exceptions were allowed. Currently there is no social media policy in place, but a…[Read more]

Any YA or public librarians out there?  Here’s a reminder that we do not all want the same user experience and also an insight into the mind of a typical young guy. A colleague borrowed her 13-year-old son’s iPod Touch (in order to troubleshoot failures with a library database app.  Following is an inventory of [...]

The “kindness audit” that I performed was at the Frank P. Doyle Library at Santa Rosa Junior College.  I thought that overall the signs are respectful of people’s dignity, mostly point out commonsense behavior, and provide answers to frequently asked questions. Background Information The presence of Santa Rosa’s significant homeless population…[Read more]

The folks at Project Information Literacy are at it again, conducting fascinating research that we as librarians can benefit from.  Check out their newly released  Project Information Literacy Research Report , which is a national study about how college students are using technology and what they are doing while in the library during the last…[Read more]

I am considering focusing on updating the social media policy or creating a collaborative plan for the Facebook page at Santa Rosa Junior College Libraries.  The Facebook page was created by a librarian, but it was a closed project in that it was not collaborative in any manner.  That librarian has retired, so now the [...]

One of the advantages of completing an internship in the SLIS program is that it gave me a chance to identify my strengths and weaknesses regarding librarianship.  Since my internship was at an academic library, I expected to be involved with education.  However, as the semester progressed, I realized none of the classes I had [...]

The film ” Good Morning ” by Yasujiro Ozu is set in the 1950s in the Japanese suburbs.  Two young brothers are delighted with their neighbor’s television and they often sneak over to watch sumo wrestling.  The mother complains that the boys watch television instead of studying English and the father associates television watching with idiots. Evils [...]

The Transparent Library: Going to the Field,  By Michael Casey & Michael Stephens — Library Journal, 09/15/2007 I wrote down the following sentences from this column: Sometimes it seems like higher-ups create policy without a feel for what actually happens on desks throughout the library. Often, those higher ups are labeled “out of touch.”…[Read more]

First of all, Char Booths “Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University” was very interesting as much for its methodology as its results.  Reading about the the types of questions asked during the gathering of information  and the responses was also fascinating.  The subject of surveys has…[Read more]

It seems as though some libraries have become stagnant bodies of water instead of invigorating, moving rivers.  In the past, It might have been okay for libraries to be a destination, like an outing to a swimming hole.  Today libraries need to be fluid and evolving, like a river that travels to the users’ territories [...]

The photos in the DOK Library Annual Report 2010 seduced me so completely that I was compelled to find information about the library written in English.  I’m pretty sure that I have seen a few photos before and heard references to DOK, but the feeling was similar to the situation when one has been kind [...]

In history classes, I have read commentary comparing the arrival of the Internet to the coming of the railroad.  Among the similarities raised were how both affected business, social interactions, and speed of travel.  The accuracy of these parallels sprang to mind while reading Buckland’s manifesto.  He had an amazing grasp of the impact of [...]

Hello everybody!  My name is Loretta Esparza and I live in downtown Santa Rosa, California.  This is located about 50 miles north of San Francisco.  When I’m not pursuing my intimate relationship with my laptop and Herman Miller chair, I follow my heart, gut, and logic, and play outside as much as possible.  I suspect [...]