I have to admit that I’m a huge Apple fan, and by correlation, a pretty big fan of Steve Jobs. I have a feeling that he is not the kind of guy I would like to know personally, but then I don’t think I would like to have known Bette Davis or Ludwig van Beethoven [...]
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A good friend and I have been discussing this whole issue of whether libraries need to subscribe to databases any more. I’m really not taking the position that libraries don’t need them any more but I wonder about the self-defeating aspect of preaching something to students when they don’t see the value in it.
I know, [...]
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When I was thinking about starting a blog/homepage/Web site/aggregator I kept coming back to the issue of how the school library media center is perceived by its audience? It is no small matter that libraries were left out of No Child Left Behind because as Doug Johnson once said, “what gets tested gets taught.”
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