Atlantic Librarians

This network is for Atlantic Librarians, defined in its broadest sense. How broadly? Well, if you live in, want to live in, once lived in, or have friends who live in Atlantic Canada and you play or work in a library then you qualify.

Library Journal News

Three Institutions Share $3000 Alibris Collection Award

Grants fulfill online wishlists from museum, public library, community college library.

Cranston, RI, Library Gets Chinese Collection Thanks to University of Rhode Island

Confucius Institute at URI gift acknowledges growing Chinese American population in city.

In Minnesota, a Weekend Library on a Frozen Lake

The Library Shanty is one of 20 temporary structures by artists on Medicine Lake.

Department of Justice Criticizes Amended Google Settlement Over Copyright, Antitrust Issues

Delay (at minimum) likely if parties and other stakeholders make major revisions; sunset clause for book database suggested.

Del.icio.us Bookmarks for Library 2.0

K12 Online Conference 2009 | GETTING STARTED KEYNOTEThe Wizard of Apps

K-12 kids perform somewhere over web 2 oh, and they're off to see the wonderful wizard of apps. Along the way they hit all the major issues, ethical use, privacy, reputation (use people searches like http://pipl.com to check yourself out), digital footprints (http://thatsnotcool.com), fair use (remix), creative commons (where to find them: Flickr, http://compfight.com), citations (Noodlebib, http://bibme.org, http://easybib.com, http://citationmachine.net), research 2.0 (and aggregation of results via RSS, Glogster, Google Squared, Google News Timeline) Wolfram Alpha, databases and various widgets, Pageflakes, Google tools and apps, evaluation of information online, plagiarism, digital storytelling (http://www.xtranormal.com, Voicethread, Animoto, Wordle, video tools such as flip cams), PLNs (Twitter, Nings e.g. Classroom 2.0, Diigo, http://doodle.com), starting PPT blank ... just to mention a few. The slide show has 202 slides, almost all with links.

What digital natives want from their library (Video)

A cute little video of a 3 year old explaining her library needs

Welcome 21st Century Parents | DarienLibrary.org

Why should they have all the fun? Join us in 12 weeks of learning through engagement in online technology, in 21 simple activities that you can do on your own time, at your own pace. This program is designed to help you learn about, and how to use, Web 2.0 technologies so that you may better support, guide, and parent your digital native kids safely and confidently through both the perils and the possibilities that this brave new digital world offers. Kids don’t just learn in school. You are your children’s first and forever teachers. So, join in the fun – come play and learn with us!

IPL 15 Things - IPL Wiki

n honor of the IPL’s upcoming 15th birthday at March 17, 2010, the IPL is launching the IPL 15 Things – introducing 15 of our favorite online technologies, with background information, best practices, related readings, examples of how the IPL is using the technology, and hands-on exercises. Explore our first eleven of 15 "Things," Blogs, Microblogging, Social Networking, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, Podcasting, Videos, SMS Text Messaging, Social Bookmarking, and RSS, and take the 15 Things Challenge!

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Patricia Hayward is now a member of Atlantic Librarians
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Richard (Dick) H. Ellis to receive Merit Award

The APLA Executive is pleased to announce that Richard (Dick) H. Ellis will be honoured at the Merit Award Banquet and Dance, Saturday May 26, 2007 - 6pm-1am.

Dick Ellis has been a longstanding member of APLA holding the positions of President and Bulletin Advertising Editor. In addition to his APLA contributions, he has been an active participant in
various associations and organizations including CACUL and CARL and the Council of Atlantic University Librarians (CAUL) over the last… Continue

Posted by Donna Bourne-Tyson on April 17, 2007 at 1:41pm

Ryan Deschamps

Future Development for the Network

One thing that Ning lets you do is add RSS feeds to your network. Currently, I have added two: 1) Library Journal news and 2) Del.icio.us bookmarks for the "Library 2.0" tag.

While the former is probably familiar to most of you, the latter may not be. Basically, del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool where people can share bookmarks publically and/or read the book marks of other people who have chosen to share their bookmarks.

People can also "tag" a bookmark with a name fami… Continue

Posted by Ryan Deschamps on March 30, 2007 at 10:35am

Annette

Come to NL for CLA!

The CLA/APLA/NLLA conference 2007 is being held in St. John's! Come join us for a great conference and fun social events...
CLA/APLA/NLLA Conference 2007

Posted by Annette on March 29, 2007 at 5:00pm

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