Posted in New Information Ecologies, New Technologies, Something to Think About on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The new shape of information
Yesterday Vicki Butler and I attended an online presentation through LMC@The Forefront. The subject - Personal Learning Networks – was presented by David Warlick, a nationally renowned school technology advocate. You can read more about it here at the ISTE Technology site.
Here is an excerpt from the link above:
As we work [...]
Posted in Humor, Something to Think About on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Something to Think About on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The SETI Institute has been looking for extraterrestrial life for more than a decade now and with the advent of new more powerful searching instruments, the possibility of finding another civilization becomes more probable. This creates a new problem. How would we conduct a serious conversation with extra-terrestrial beings? The Institute has thrown the question [...]
Posted in Something to Think About on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this month, library colleagues convened a meeting on the future of libraries. From this meeting came the following declarations which I find to be very accurate.
The Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians
Written and endorsed by John Blyberg, Kathryn Greenhill, and Cindi Trainor
The Purpose of the Library
The purpose of the Library is [...]
