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Sunday, June 15, 2003

Summer reading at Berkeley
Thanks to a message on LM_NET: Cal's 'unofficial' summer reading list. The list is not like any other summer reading list.
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Rita Vine writes on her blog about My Schedule at ALA/CLA. For the upcoming ALA/CLA conference in Toronto June 19-25, I'll be presenting the program Beyond Google: Searching Faster and Smarter on the Web on June... [SiteLines - Ideas About Web Searching]

I would love to go to one of her sessions. She also mentions Search Portfolio, "a licensed web desktop of the 100 top peer-reviewed web sites for searching," in this post about her activities at the conference in Toronto. Even the Search Portfolio Lite, the demo page, looks worth linking to. I'll have to put it in the pot with Nettrekker and Web Feet and some of the other web site collection services and see how it might be useful.

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Building Information Products
Landmarks for Schools. Debuting in 1995, Landmarks for Schools provides internet resources for teachers and students. Landmarks for Schools provides links to information building blocks: web sites, pages, and interactive tools that provide information in the form of a raw material. [Education Librarian]

8:16:12 AM

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Learning Literacies
Web Literacy and Critical Thinking: A Teachers' Toolkit. March 15, 2003 article from Technology & Learning Magazine by Judy Salpeter. Link to article. [Education Librarian]

Excellent article that refers to several things I've read in other places. Includes good suggestions for activities with students.

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Pass it on in any language
Click every button, search high and low... and in Klingon.
So why didn't anybody tell me this...??? ... until we all do become omniscient: click every button and every link... or else you will never know what is out there! [Xplana]

Fun article with a good message. But some people are "clickers" and some are not. That's why we need to share what we know and not assume others will find out on their own.

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Call a Librarian!
Adventures in Downloading Haydn. On the iTunes online music service, classical music is easy to buy but hard to find. By Anne Midgette. [New York Times: Technology]

I just have to post this article, even though it only narrowly fits in the parameters for this blog as I have them defined in my head. All the way through reading it, I wanted to shout at the author, and at the iTunes people, in frustration. Why didn't they ever think about talking to a music librarian? Do they think no one has ever had to catalog music? Argh!
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