Library Stuff

I love celebrity gossip.  This one tickled me.

"You may remember him fondly as Kumar, the hungry stoner from Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle,* and you’ve likely seen him pop up on this season’s 24, as "villainous" teen, Ahmed Ahmar. In fact, Penn, currently starring in Mira Nair’s The Namesake, is even slated to teach a course at UPenn (haha, no relation!) next year.

But none of that has stopped him from doing what he does best: making bizarre cameo appearances at the New York Public Library, and managing to simultaneously ruin both The Namesake and "Catcher In The Rye."

How to use Web 2.0 in your library

Originally uploaded by Philipbradley.

Yet another Web 2.0 for libraries book. This one by Phil Bradley, who always finds cool Web tools for me to play with. Congrats Phil!!

I recieved word of a new social book review site called Revish which is set to launch on March 30th. 

They sent a press release via e-mail.  Here’s an excerpt:

Heidi Go Seek on the new University of Michigan SI specialization:

"I hate to be cynical…but the truth is that since I’m less pessimistic than I used to be, I’m now forced to be cynical. What kind of job would I be able to get with a degree in MySpace?"

Not that the concept isn’t cool…a class or two on the subject might be nice (and even interesting), but a whole specialization? I’m not so sure about that."

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"Of course, I also think that some of the best ideas in social computing are not coming out of the academic setting either…they’re coming from average people with a few friends and some time to kill."

The Washington Post has a piece today about the use of Wikipedia in the classroom.  Nothing new here, but the conversation should continue:

"In the online world in which teachers and students navigate, ambiguity of this kind is daily fare. For young people who have grown up with instant access to information, it seems like no big deal. But to educators, trained in accurate sourcing and correct attribution, deciding what the limits should be often poses a dilemma."

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