Technically a Librarian

If you are interested in what different universities are doing with ipods, check out the article in this month's issue of Multimedia & Internet @ Schools entitled "The Proof is in the Podding" by Stephen Abram. His email is stephen.abram@sirsidynix.com The article discusses Duke Universities purchase of an Ipod for every student and the applications they used for them. What a great boost to education! There is also a great list of resources at the end of the article including: Chris Harris's blog Infomancy http://www.schoolof.info/infomancy Duke University iPod First-Year Experience: Final Evaluation Report http://cit.duke.edu/pdf/ipod_initiative_04_05.pdf

If you are working with teens and are interested in what's new for teens-this is the website for you. It is a blog done by two teen librarians http://www.yalibrarian.com/ Great information & updated often!

I have been altering MyYahoo! page to be easier to use. I am setting up RSS feeds from the websites I tend to visit such as CNN entertainment-Books & the NY Times book section. It is very easy to set up. If you have a lot of websites you visit daily, you might want to see if they offer RSS feeds and set up your own page.

We only have one more day before midterms begin. I have been trying to get the magazine order straightened out and the rest of the books cataloged in. I taught database researching this week to another class of seniors. I have to say I love http://citationmachine.net if you have never used this site, it shows you how to cite resources in MLA and APA format.

Thank goodness for the new year! I plan to copresent at the SLMS conference in Rochester, NY in April, rejoin all the professional organizations I belong to, and continue to write reviews for the School Library Journal-I even sent them an article. I hope the new year finds you well! Don't forget to make professional New Year's resolutions!

I also work at Elmira College as one of the weekend Reference Librarians. There are four of us who cover the Research Help Desk (as it is now called) at the college on Friday-Sunday from Labor Day weekend to Memorial Day weekend. Elmira subscribe to some great databases. Their home page is http://www.elmira.edu/academics/library.shtml . I will be at the college tomorrow night. I am hoping for a snow day from school, we are expecting 3-6" of snow tomorrow!

I attended the AASL Conference in October. I blogged for that http://noodletools.com/aasl and then remember that some time ago I had set up my own blog. I couldn't find it by searching or anything. Luckily I found this today by accident. I am sorry if you have looked for anything in the past year. I will begin posting regularly and will even add a link to my library webpage. If you would like to see my Online Media Center http://www.corningareaschools.com/east/library be my guest!

Librarians, This is a site created by a librarian for librarians. I hope many of you find this site and are able to add knowledge of new resources, vent your frustrations, or ask for advice. If your library has a webpage, please feel free to share. If you are a currently library student, please join us.