Edubeacon

Over the recent holidays I took time to investigate some library support tools and came across Libguides.  It appears to have been around for a couple of years and has gone under my radar.  Libguides isn’t free but on the other hand, it’s affordable if it works.  I’ve been building research guides for teachers for [...]

Personally, Twitter is very easy to love.  You can pick it up and put it down as often as you like.  When you think the central heating has exploded, within moments you hear on Twitter that it’s been an earth tremour.  It’s short and to the point.  Facebook on the other hand……. well, it’s not [...]

It’s interesting to see the video on the Mindspot the library of the future as blogged about by Jenny Luca today. It offers a glimpse of the future as libraries are incorporate multimedia options and the voice of youth. With so many resources being freely available online, the future library is going to be a [...]

Card catalogues in libraries are as out of date in 2007 as religious habits on nuns, yet the media loves to hang onto them as if they are still part of daily operations. The use of the analogy in a recent article about the new regime at the McMaster’s University in the US was not [...]