This morning I was poking around the Apple website, pretending like I was going to buy an iPod touch (so very tempting, so many reasons not to right now…). Anyhow, I was struck by a few things. First, I was interested in whether the 8 GB Touch was in stock in my local Apple Store. [...]
Two reports in the past few days of institutions restricting access to social networking sites… Middle Georgia College blocks Facebook, MySpace (via the Kept-Up Academic Librarian) Facebook Banned in Library (via Library Stuff) Both the library and IT department on my campus are dead-set against policing the type of content that can be viewed on [...]
Student computer labs still in demand — Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog, 10/8/2007. According to this blurb in the Wired Campus blog, around 80% of college students own laptops, yet 8 out of 11 institutions surveyed report that campus computer lab use has remained steady or increased. This certainly seems to be the [...]
We recently started using the plasma screen in our Learning Commons to display announcements from LC service providers. Right now, we’re doing it in a relatively low-tech way, using PowerPoint and manually loading a new show on the computer each week. Slightly more interesting is the fact that we’re uploading each week’s slideshow to Slideshare–a [...]
Little lull between blog posts here. The Learning Commons has been hopping. We’ve seen many improvements in recent days–new printers and scanners on the library side, a fabulous new remote printing service from OIT, some lovely reupholstered chairs, and, of course, this great weather. You can always catch up with the latest goings-on over at [...]
Via the Ubiquitous Librarian comes a link to a video produced by honors English students at Georgia Tech. The students examined the evolution of what they call knowledge spaces, focusing on Georgia Tech’s Library East Commons as an example. Doubly awesome is the fact that the video has been added to Georgia Tech’s institutional repository, [...]
High school students in the Boston area are availing themselves of cafes and sandwich shops in order to study and socialize in cozy environments with food and beverages, according to this story from the Boston Globe. Libraries are alluded to as a less favorable alternative at least twice. After class, teens plan on food and [...]