Hmm.. a thought from Carl Grant’s commentary

Well yes I am updating this blog, that has not been updated since last spring, but as I read from my list of Google Readers, I noted that miss_tinamarie shared this, and was interested to say nonetheless, this was on something she shared a while ago from Stephan’s Lighthouse on commentary from Carl Grant about [...]

Updates – Personal and Professionally.. April Update

Well of all my blogs this is the one that I update the most infrequently, that should change one of these months, give or take.
I am right now doing several things at once – I am on Spring Break from my part time job as an adjunct Librarian in the Community College I work at.
Preparing [...]

Research – any solution on portablilty?

Research, something I find myself surrounded by. I like to read about new things, and prefer to save .pdf vesrsions from the databases I can seach through, but what about moments when you’re on the road or in my case, the train. I can’t always heft around my laptopn, and have been searching for that [...]

Book Reviewing and Benefits, even if it often work with no pay…

As a new librarian, reading book reviews is one way to boost your knowledge quickly in terms of being a Public or Acquisition librarian who knows all that is out there.That is my belief. Hence the extravagant pricing for subscriptions to PW, Booklist, Choice, or Library Journal. It takes a lot of work, love for [...]

E-publishing vs. Publishing- Which better as a news source?

Happy MLK Day….for those that get a day off.

One of the things as a new librarian at this time,  you would see is the abundance of information via print or electronic source materials.
Personally I get surrounded by news from the print and electronic – in deals with library publications. In terms of electronic news, I [...]

Brooklyn College Library on MySpace.. wow.. and ouch

Well I have written a post on Milne Library earlier with having a blog, but now get this… Brooklyn College Library on MySpace… ouch… too much social networking!
Library Journal wrote an article here…and the MySpace site is here.