Information Tyrannosaur

Our library recently got several iPads. I’ve been playing with one for two weeks now and there are a number of  reasons why tablet computers could have a significant impact on libraries: It’s easy to read long texts – I enjoy reading text on the iPad. I downloaded A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court [...]

In the past month or two there have been a lot of jobs for Emerging Technologies Librarians (at least six that I’ve seen). I find it interesting that we are seeing more and more of these positions. Looking at the ads there are some commonalities in what employers want out of an emerging technologies librarian: [...]

A few days ago I found out about a presentation tool called Prezi from my friend Becky who is doing some very cool things at the University of Dubuque in Iowa. She’s using Prezi as a tool to help with some of the dozens of research and information literacy classes that she teaches. Unlike PowerPoint your [...]