Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

The fabulous Judy O’Connell shared this cool list in her Hey Jude blog and I want to make sure word spreads. Mashable recently gathered a Video Toolbox: 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources. Names of tools like Zamzar and YouTube are already familiar parts of our lives, but many of these other tools look truly [...]

One event I am sorry I missed at ALA was Tuesday’s Day on the Hill, when Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Thad Cochran (R-MS), and Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) introduced the Strengthening Kids’ Interest in Learning and Libraries Act. This act promotes equity for learners. All students deserve quality libraries and [...]

Sorry about my absence. Edublogs has been down and I have been posting on my SLJ blog for the last few days. And hooray, that blog now has an RSS feed. And it seems that Edublogs is back and stable. And so I am back to being bi-bloggal. I am just back from NECC and [...]

I am just back from the Discovery Educators’ Network National Institute right outside of DC. While I was there, I had an strange chat with Steve Dembo. Strange, because we began brainstorming about where librarians might go with pathfinders in a 2.0 information landscape. I don’t get to talk pathfinders with too many nonlibrarians, but [...]

My blog personality is suddenly split.  I blog here, of course.  I now blog for School Library Journal too.  I am thinking that this is more a space where I can blog in my sweats.  At SLJ, the blazer stays on. Anyway . . . I wanted to alert you.  I’ve been thinking a lot [...]