Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

Kathy Schrock just sent me a link to a fine piece, Are Librarians Totally Obsolete? which offers “33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important.” This comes on the heels of David’s recent post, “Who Needs ‘Em?” And David’s post follows scores of other articles I read these past two years arguing my [...]

In his 2 Cents Worth Blog, David Warlick shares: While at the National School Boards Association Conference the other day, more than one school board member came up to me, a tech guy, and asked, “We’re trying desperately to find ways to deal with budget crunches. With all of these computers and access to online [...]

Emily created this new avatar to inspire me to write and finish my D! What a super-daughter!

We’ve just completed our new student-produced library orientation video. http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/Libraryorientation.mov It will help me catch up our new students and I will use it with our new eighth graders in September. Wonderful Ben wrote and produced the film as part of an independent study! It may be just a little bit rule-focused, and there are [...]

Citizendium opened its doors (with required login) to the public on Wednesday. Actually launched in October, and founded by Larry Sanger, Wikipedia’s co-founder, the site promises to be more authoritative than Wikipedia. Citizendium requires contributors to work under their own real names.  Subject editors must have the qualifications of a tenure-track professor. Professional contributors have [...]