Thursday, April 26, 2007
23 things or 2 or 3 things
For those who participate in the project you will be much more web 2.0 savvy. For those who complete the program, you will receive a iPod shuffle.
She will be sending us more info but look to start around mid May or early June.
Neat low pressure way to learn new things.
Team Reorganization
Wmpl rotating meeting
Thing 2. due to low circulation, we will no longer receive books on cd that are composed of 20 or more cds.
1036 Lbs
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Avoid overdue fines with a library basket
Avoid overdue fines with a library basket
Megin of GNMParents on keeping track of library books:
We go to the library almost weekly. Between the 3 kids and myself our library bag is overflowing when we leave. For a long time it was common to lose track of the books- they would get mixed in with the books we owned (all 9 gazillion of them!) and left in every room in the house. This made returning books a bear and we almost always had late fines.
Enter the library book basket: I bought a special basket that stays in the living room. This is now the home for all things library. The kids learned very quickly to return books to the basket- even the 2 year-old. Now when it's time to return items, we just dump them back into the library bag and we know we are returning everything we borrowed.
The same idea would work for movie and game rentals, although we avoid the late fee problem altogether with Netflix.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Carson Scholar's advice
I think her advice holds true in lots of situations, to overcome "the resistance" you have to want it more than you are afraid of it.
A-ADD
It goes on to say "
An article in yesterday’s New York Times suggests that the upshot of last week’s BlackBerry outage may be about more than just an annoying communication outage — for some, it was a flop-sweat-inducing night of cold turkey.
“It’s random reinforcement,” Mr. Katz said. The fact that you don’t know when important news will come, he said, “means you will quickly engage in obsessive compulsive behavior.”
These social needs and yearnings may drive the use. But at some point, that use becomes an end unto itself — a physical ritual that can take on some of the qualities of actual addiction, said Dr. John Ratey, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard, where he specializes in neuropsychiatry.
Several years ago, Mr. Ratey began using the term “acquired attention deficit disorder” to describe the condition of people who are accustomed to a constant stream of digital stimulation and feel bored in the absence of it. Regardless of whether the stimulation is from the Internet, TV or a cellphone, the brain, he said, is hijacked.
Sure, I kid the BlackBerry addicts, but I do sympathize. Left to my own devices, I’d check email a hundred times a day and can still half-ruin a vacation with the constant need to “just check in.” Electronic fiddling is a lot like tobacco addiction and a lot easier to get away with nowadays.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Credit Cards ?
Waiting
MLA conference
See the conference proceedings at http://www.mdlib.org/conference/index.htm.
Place your taffy orders now.
WMPL rotating meeting
West Renovation update
Perf evaluation time again
Comments please
thanks