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Buffy Hamilton, Media Specialist at Creekview High School in Canton, Ga. (Cherokee County School District) has created an amazing ‘Annual Library Report’ for the school’s ‘Unquiet Library’.  Included are:

videos
Monthly reports
Research Pathfinders
a Profile of the Media Specialist
Link to their Blog
List of their Social Media Streams
List of their Flickr Stream
and more!

Check it out!  http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/annualreport2009-10
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Got to see it to believe it!   This video even features Big 6’s Michael Eisenberg and Nancy Pearl (author of ‘Book Lust’)
Bib 2.0: Mental Health Break…

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Miro Video Converter is
‘A super simple way to convert almost any video to MP4, Ogg Theora, or a specific phone or iPod.’
‘Miro Video Converter has presets that will convert video to the correct sizes and formats for popular phones, iPods, and other media players. Just convert your video and copy it [...]

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The About.com article, ‘47 Alternatives to Wikipedia: 47 Websites You Can Use Instead of Wikipedia‘, indeed offers some great research Websites.  The article says:
‘Wikipedia is perhaps the most popular reference site online, with millions of high quality articles available on virtually any topic. However, there are limits to what Wikipedia can offer. Here are 47 [...]

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Animoto.com offers a quick and simple solution to creating short videos.   You can use the photos/images on the Website or upload your own.  Use the music on Animoto or upload your own.   It is THAT easy!   The only difficult part is waiting a few moments to see your creative work.  Creating 30 second videos is [...]

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The Library of Congress offers ‘Endangered Species: Selected Internet Resources’ in their Science Reference Services.  Learned about this from ResourceShelf.com.  Read their post about it - http://www.resourceshelf.com

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InsideHigherEd.com posted an interesting article about ‘the university library of the future’.  The article simply entitled, ‘Libraries of the Future’, begins:
‘The university library of the future will be sparsely staffed, highly decentralized, and have a physical plant consisting of little more than special collections and study areas.’
Read on…http://www.insidehighered.com

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TheStar.com had a great article on the role of libraries today AND the future of libraries.  The article, ‘A tale of two countries’ libraries’, looked at public libraries in Canada and the U.S.A. to see what is working.  Here is an excerpt:
‘In a 2006 poll, 78 per cent of Americans said if their local library [...]

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The September 28th issue of Time magazine had an interesting article entitled, ‘Where Wikipedia Ends’ that although Wikipedia hit the ‘3 million article mark’ in August 2009 its ‘growth line flattened’ in early 2007.  The article looks at some of the possible reasons such as ‘has all knowledge been summarized’, has the site become too [...]

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This morning I was listening to Taylor Swift’s ‘Love Story’ and thinking how much I loved it. Moments later I heard about Kanye’s disruption. Kanye’s action was classless and Taylor and Beyonce’s responses were classy. What more needs to be said!
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