May 2008 Blog Posts (8)

PMOG: Passively Multiplayer Online Game

PMOG, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game, was released to the general public this week. Players earn points for each unique domain on the internet they visit; they can use those points to buy crates to store gifts for other players, mines that distract other players, and lightposts that can be used to make missions--a series of websites on a given topic for other players explore.

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Added by Greg Landgraf on May 16, 2008 at 3:28pm — No Comments

nextgen librarians

I spoke at the conference yesterday about NextGen librarians and made a conclusion that my Russian colleagues gladly call themselves modern librarians, but don't do anything to correspond to this title. they are still somewhere in the middle of the 20th century. I am totally frustrated...

Added by Katerina Yefimova on May 16, 2008 at 3:42am — 9 Comments

a non-librarian in library-dom

I tend to hang out with techies in my spare time, and the one comment I get from them quite frequently is how surprised they are at the amount of librarians in social networking. Blogging, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... you name it, you will find librarians (and, because of them, their libraries) represented. Librarians are doing wonderful things with YouTube and SlideShare and other tools. And it's getting noticed.

When I migrated to library-dom, more than five years ago, I… Continue

Added by Sandra Fernandez on May 15, 2008 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Graduation 2008

I graduated from Syracuse University on May 10, 2008 with a Master of Science in Library and Information Science as well as a Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries. Highlights of graduation week included being inducted into Beta Phi Mu, the Library and Information Science Honor Society and being awarded the Master's Prize for my LIS program at Convocation.

Added by Philip Bahr on May 14, 2008 at 12:19pm — 7 Comments

Using the RSS Feed Parser Tutorial Video

I have put together this short tutorial about taking an RSS feed and using our Feed2JS feed parser and incorporating it into BlackBoard version 8.

Added by Troy Swanson on May 9, 2008 at 12:45pm — No Comments

New Information Literacy Web site

The Moraine Valley Library is happy to announce a new Web site that we have created in collaboration with our communications department: Information Literacy General Education Expectations and Resources.

Added by Troy Swanson on May 7, 2008 at 2:32pm — 2 Comments

How do I get a new gadget in NING?

http://widgetserver.com/syndication/GetWidget/opensocial/e9840f65-e1f4-458b-928e-97119c2b40a7

Added by Guus van den Brekel on May 4, 2008 at 7:26am — No Comments

May 2008 - Graduation and job search!

On May 10, 2008, I graduated from Syracuse University's MSLIS program with a Master of Science in Library and Information Science as well as a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Digital Libraries. I have of course already begun the job search. I am looking to relocated to either an urban area/city or a progressive smaller community. My two areas of focus in Librarianship are Information Literacy (Instruction) and Digitization.

Added by Philip Bahr on May 1, 2008 at 9:55pm — No Comments