February RASL meeting

Meet us in the SCILS faculty lounge tomorrow,
February 24th at 5:00 PM

You've heard all about Web 2.0,
but how is it going to help you in your LMC
or your youth services department?

Come on out for some free pizza, discussion
and demonstrations of Web 2.0 in the library.

National Library Week: Reference Desk

Check out ALA's NLW promo videos on YouTube. Enjoy!

[For some reason, the videos are posted under several user names. Use this link for the username AmLibraryAssociation to see them all (I think). ]

Listservs

Here is a link of a bunch of children's literature related listservs you can join, if you fancy.

Just for Fun: Dance your fines away!

Okay, I know I still owe you guys a post about the last RASL meeting. It's coming...right after my Learning Theory, Media & Curriculum paper, and my Reference Sources/Services and Materials for Children assignments. (Sorry!)

In the meantime, here's a fun item from LIS News: Wadleigh Memorial Library in Milford, NH let patrons donate food or dance their library fines away on DDR.

Forum Results

Sorry to post twice in the same night, but I wanted to get this information on the web in case I misplaced the sheet, forever loosing the data gathered at the meeting!! For those of you who were unable to attend the meeting, we surveyed the group to see what people wish they could get from RASL. Below is a bulleted list with the suggestions that people contributed. Didn't go to tonight's meeting? Don't worry, you can still be heard! If you think of something else, just post it here and we shall find it!

The list

• More social events
• Opportunities to network with professionals in the field
• Children's education coupled with museums and artistic environments
• A trip to the Zimmerli
  
• Liberty Science Center

• Field trips and tours of school libraries
• Information on services for children with disabilities
• Program Ideas
• Techniques for controlling large groups of children
• Storytelling techniques and festival information
• Arts and crafts for libraries
  
• Bridge-building between public and school libraries
  

Just for fun: books that make you dumb?!

Virgil Griffith, Caltech student and creator of Wikiscanner, has released a new web report, "Booksthatmakeyoudumb." He correlated the average SAT/ACT scores of more than 1300 US colleges and universities with the 10 most popular books listed on their Facebook pages. Fun to look at and see where your favorites lie.

Several books scored way higher than I would have expected. (Reminds me of the "WTF?" group on Shelfari.) Enjoy! [Found at lisnews and librarian.net, and cross-posted on my blog]

Something Fun

In case you find yourself in front of a computer, bored and procrastinating--yet still wanting to be productive, here are some games for you to test out! Carnegie Mellon University is in the final stages of two library-centered computer games aimed to help students with their researching skills. This looks a great way for kids to become engaged during a library overview (Not to mention, it's quite fun for librarians too!).

Games found on Fuse 8's blog.