Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

I had a very intriguing chat with Brian Mull of November Learning last week. In a post on his blog, Brian responds to the chart I posted on change last week and he posts our conversation as a podcast. The conversation explores information literacy in a Web 2.0 landscape. I thought you might find it [...]

On Monday, Reed Business and NBC announced the 2006 nominees for the Quills–a kinda “People’s Choice Award” for literature.  Among the 19 categories are: Fiction, Author of the Year, Debut Author, Graphic Novel, Illustrated Children’s Book, Children’s Chapter Book, Young Adult or Teen Book. Between August 22 and September 30 folks can visit the site and cast [...]

I’ve been to a number of conferences this year, but the one I will remember most, the one that offered me much of what I will bring into school next week was July’s November Learning event in Boston.  If you weren’t able to be there, or if you were there and you’d like to refresh [...]

With this blog reaching its first birthday (my first post was August 22, 2005!), I got to thinking about how the library and the classroom have changed for many of us in the last couple of years. I got to thinking about how incredibly dramatic the change has been since I first got out of [...]

Here in Pennsylvania, Governor Rendell’s Office just announced our state’s new virtual reference service, “Ask Here PA.” http://papress.state.pa.us/parelease/data/1060803.003.htm The 24/7 service opens officially on September 6, with than 90 libraries, including 20 academic libraries, participating and receiving training using the OCLC QuestionPoint Survey. The service will be administered by HSLC/AccessPA. Here’s the plan: Students and [...]