Category Archives: ClassBlog

Library Internships, taking advantage of them.

I will be starting my library internship next semester and I’m a bit nervous but looking forward to the opportunity of working in a library and putting to practice what I have been taught at COSTAATT from all my lecturers! … Continue reading

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Greening your library: save money and the environment

  Submitted by Daniel A. Freeman on March 31, 2012 – 9:37pm Your library is vital to connecting citizens with the knowledge and tools to change habits and lessen our impact on the Earth’s limited resources, and it all starts … Continue reading

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there comes The Tech Set

If you’ve been watching M&A activity in the library-literature space, you know that Neal-Schuman joined ALA Publishing back in December. Among the plums are the 10 new titles for THE TECH SET. The authors of books 1-10, Series Editor Ellyssa … Continue reading

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library quotes

From Alexa’s blog I thought this really inspiring ‘library quotes’, I especially like this one “A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books…children learn … Continue reading

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grandma home remedies

I particularly always love scented candles in fact I try to keep a collection because it is soothing, I thought Natalie’s “grandma remedies” quite interesting especially, vanilla extract which seems to be a popular flavoring found in kitchens all over the world. From … Continue reading

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good user experience

Commenting on one of my classmate Lisa’s blog on “ensuring a good user experience” We all know a poor experience with anyone can be fatal so… A good experience is essential for a client/user  return. Happy client/user recommends your library to others, and … Continue reading

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blogs

I wanted to know the reasons why people use blogs so  this when I came across “what are blog?” I thought the information good and informative to post on my blog. Libraries use so many different types of research tools … Continue reading

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Open source

Shermel my classmate posted ‘Libraries and open source’ I thought this interesting since we constantly about the advancement of technology…”Digital information has drastically changed the library profession. Print media is dead. But libraries remain physical repositories for printed books. They … Continue reading

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Humour

I do believe that its always good to laugh a little, a few classmates (Alexa & Vidya) including myself seems to think that this is so true. Vidya posted a “fun facts about libraries” and “library jokes“. My other classmate posted … Continue reading

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Time

OMG! Wow! How time has changed! on a post from Vidya’s blog she talks about the evolution of changed, I think that it is great how we have given way to new and refined information through computers and how we have … Continue reading

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