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A really long post about RSS (Part 2)

thelibrarygeek February 11, 2009 Library 2

(Part 2 of 2) I checked the discussion group of the class but nothing specific to the problem I have was posted. I had suspicion that a theme or plugin I installed, as I have been playing with trying out …

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A really long post about RSS (Part 1)

thelibrarygeek February 11, 2009 Library 1

Part 1 of 2 RSS is another example of how Web 2.0 technologies are changing how we gather and share information. Farkas in her book, Social software in libraries, provided a brief background of what RSS is all about. She …

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Paranoia by Joseph Finder

thelibrarygeek February 7, 2009 Reviews 0

It was a co-worker who introduced me to the works of Joseph Finder back in 2004. We were talking about books that we recently read and she mentioned Finder’s Paranoia, while I told her about Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci …

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Lists of reader’s advisory and homework help sites for kids 6 to 12 years old

thelibrarygeek February 5, 2009 Library 0

As I’ve mentioned in my post about KidSpace, I did a paper on my LIBR 261 class under Penny Peck evaluating reader’s advisory and reference and homework help sites for kids age 6 to 12. I just wanted to share …

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Know thy self, know thy goal, know thy audience

thelibrarygeek February 3, 2009 Library 3

A blog means different things to different folks of different backgrounds. A tech guru would probably tell you that a blog is nothing more than a dynamic website usually maintained by a single person and whose entries are presented in …

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