Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

I am back.  And ALA was dizzying.  I must apologize to Alice and Laura.  I developed this post for the AASL Blog, but could not seem to post it.  So maybe we could link later? For those of you interested in seeing our little gang posing around the Convention Center, check out the Flickr account. [...]

Google just posted its fourth Google Librarian Newsletters.  Here are just a few of the goodies. There’s lots of background on Google’s Book Search.  Two new, free posters are available for download: Anatomy of a Search – How online search works. Discover Buried Treasure – How to find a book using Google Book Search – [...]

I spent a chunk of last week tweaking our new student-produced instructional series. This was complicated by the loss of a chunk of audio when someone trashed some of the files on our Apples. That forced a small group of teachers into recreating the students’ quite crazy thesis rap. George, Eric, Jeff and I discovered [...]

After a grueling two hour session yesterday, I am now officially a doctoral candidate. The committee accepted my proposal and gave me some fine ideas for improving it. Here’s the new title: Discovering a Descriptive Taxonomy of Attributes of Exemplary School Library Websites There was some talk of the wisdom of going colonless, but I [...]

Tomorrow afternoon I defend my dissertation proposal. It is strange that I feel compelled to share this information here. If I fail, I fall on my face in front of a much larger audience. What is up with this blogging thing? Perhaps I write as some sort of insurance. It just wouldn’t be a good [...]