Oct

31

Trading Card

October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment

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Oct

29

Context Book: Setting the Table

October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Danny Meyer opened his first restaurant, Union Square Cafe, in 1985. He now runs the Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) which includes several award winning restaurants in New York City.
Throughout his career Meyers has wondered “Who ever wrote the rule that … ” and [...]

Oct

22

A Scary Book

October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

I stumbled on a scary book the other day while walking the stacks at Harold Washington Library. The Future of Reputation: gossip, rumor, and privacy on the internet brings the dark side of social media, viral videos, and the participatory web to light.
Daniel Solove references dozens of unnerving cases where people on and off the [...]

Oct

20

Do You ALA?

October 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

This is a Young Librarian’s Working Group (ALA) project to find out why or why people don’t belong to ALA. Talk for 1 minute about the things you like or don’t like about ALA.
The group has been “charged with trying to understand how to make ALA more viable for young librarians … we will [...]

Oct

19

Post #5: Social Networking

October 19, 2009 | 2 Comments

I decided to explore LibraryThing for this week’s social networking assignment. I had a vague idea of what LibraryThing was, but up until this point it’s never come up in conversation with anyone. There didn’t seem to be much interest in the website, whereas Shelfari is a site that gets talked about, so I’ve had [...]

Oct

17

Library Interview Questions

October 17, 2009 | 6 Comments

I’ve been on a number of interviews over the course of the summer and I’ve been asked a lot of interview questions. Some questions were strange, some were standard, and some were unexpected. Here’s a list of some of them for those wanting to brush up on their interview skills. These questions were asked by [...]

Oct

16

The Newberry

October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

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This is the front of the Newberry Library at 60 W. Walton. If you’re looking for obscure sources, want to see beautiful antiquarian maps, or just want to explore a Chicago landmark check it out!

Oct

12

Post #4: Paper Topic

October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments

My group project is on The Digital Divide so I know that I’ll save myself a lot of work by doing my paper on the same subject. By focusing in on one topic I’ll be able to get a better understanding of it and be able to produce better work.
While Michael was talking on the [...]

Oct

4

Post #3: My 1st Experience with Virtual Communities

October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Growing up my family had a very early Mac computer (see here). I remember it being used for two reasons; my mom typed up papers for graduate students and when her sister came over they would play Jeopardy – and that’s about it. My mom then married my step-dad in 1998, and he had a [...]

Oct

2

SOPAC (Social Online Public Access Catalog)

October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment

“SOPAC is a module for the Drupal CMS that provides true integration of your library catalog system with the power of the Drupal content management system while allowing users to tag, rate, and review your holdings. User input is then incorporated into the discovery index so that SOPAC becomes a truly community-driven catalog system.”
With a [...]