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I'm taking the FL Teacher Certification Exam for Ed Media Specialist in 7 days! As the lucky 13th of October approaches, I'm freaking big time! Help! Has anyone in the state taken the test recently and can share some words of encouragement?? Is there anyone near Orlando who's looking at that date and is available to study with me??

A few months ago, I wrote about the grand opening of the San Jose State Unviersity's School of Library and Information Science in Second Life. One of the biggest impressions left on me that day was how they connected the inworld presentation with a Moodle chat room, allowing people without SL connections to chat with those who were in world. By happy chance, I was inworld and alerted to a me…

From ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF): Can They Do That?

"Unless there is an order from a U.S. court, the British settlement is unenforceable in the United States, and libraries are under no legal obligation to return or destroy the book. Libraries are considered to hold title to the individual copy or copies, and it is the library…

We've posted an online survey requesting feedback about our Online Communities service, as well as other collaborative software you've used inside and outside of ALA. We're hoping to use this feedback to evaluate the current OC product in order to decide if we should continue forward with it, start with something new, or find a mix of products. Or do something else we haven't thought of yet. Basically, we want to know what you need so we can help deli…

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It is final. 13^th October we will be back in the USA. The shanachie tour is set out to be a marvelous event of keeping, sharing and making stories. Our Library Bureau of Investigation will not only search for be…

• There's a Meebo Chat Room on the Annual 2007 wiki as a virtual meeting place for physical attendees who may want a place to gather online with virtual attendees or as a place for virtual attendees to chat together. This could also be used for interactions during sessions. Basically, it's th
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Recently, having become a resident in Second Life, I attended a Best Practices in Education conference on May 25. I only attended one presentation and walked around a bit, but I made an attempt, nonetheless. Did anyone else attend this? And, I wonder if ALA would ever consider a live feed from an ALA conference session. I know that I would attend, because I can't afford to go to the Conference every year, and at our library, we take turns attending conferences. How would one go about suggesti…

ALA TechSource, in collaboration with the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), is proud to annouce the first annual Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium will be held in Ch…

"Let's get as many libraries as we can to sign up for a customized, li…

I'm *this close* to graduating with my MS from an ALA-accredited program. I started about 2 years ago saying that I liked kids but that I didn't want to work with them all day every day. Thankfully, God changed that plan and I jumped on the children's and youth services track about 2 months into the program.

I've loved working towards my masters, but I am so excited about finding that mysterious firs…

Hello! I am the Children's Services Manager at the Park Ridge Public Library and have been working in libraries for the past seven years. I love working with children and teens (hence why I am not a reference librarian) and can't think of any profession I would love as much as I love this one. I am a voracious reader (compared to some) and will read anything from children's, young adult, biography, romance, chick lit, science fiction, fantasy, fiction, mysteries, and, well, the list could go…

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Using Michael Stephens' keynote at the Polaris User's Group last October as motivation, we at Pierce County Library began a system-wide initiative delving into all the dynamics of Web 2.0. We designed a 4-hour class called "Social Web Literacy" which looks at all the ways people are using online social networking these days: wikis, gaming, person…

Internally at ALA, a group of staff have been talking about the potential benefits of a social network for our members for months. We have a vision for it, have outlined some of the possible features, and even pitched for money at a recent budget meeting. Even if the funding request was approved tomorrow, the startup time until there is something to soft launch would be months at best, so we've decided to get our feet wet here on Ning with this her…