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Pressure and Time


“That’s all it takes really, pressure, and time.” – Red, Shawshank Redemption
Last week I finished teaching a batch of information literacy classes. I was also able to read some papers that students wrote in relation to my session and their reading of the article Is Google Making Us Stupid? From reading these papers and conversations [...]

I just tweeted in the library


Twitter has gotten a lot of press lately. CNN loves to talk about it. It has been on both John Stewart and Steven Colbert. Jimmy Fallon uses it copiously and talks about it on his show. Twitter has grown 2,300% in 13 months. There is no ignoring it.
Yet, recently at the ACRL conference in Seattle [...]

The case for facebook


I have been working on a facebook page for our library. A number of other libraries have entered into the social networking realm and I think it is past time for us to do so.
When I walk through the computer lab in the library to grab some coffee, every other computer I see has facebook [...]