Comments on: If I just had 15 minutes each day

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:22:33 +0000

Hi Meredith, Thanks very much for listing your library and tech blog recommendations–I love it when people I respect advise me about useful resources. Also thank you for your thoughtful suggestions on how to approach learning about this subject in general.

And I think the hard thing is keeping it to 15 min a day…for me, it usually is 30 min or an hour a day at home!

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:30:55 +0000

I have an interesting challenge at my job. I am the librarian for a predominately male, minority, disadvantaged, seriously emotionally disturbed school from grades 1-12. They are all using blogs, social networking sites, etc. Literacy levels are very low.

My current state of confusion surrounds literacy. How do you balance the current trend of technologies within the library against meeting literacy needs? (I don’t have time to do both.) Where do the two ‘avenues’ of literacy and technology meet?? In other words: Does reading a book get boring when MySpace is more entertaining?

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:56:33 +0000

Thanks for the great post! I have been thinking a lot lately about the trouble so many librarians seem to have “finding time” to keep up with the developments in their profession. I happen to think that the”no time” excuse is a total cop-out… and using an approach like yours really takes the excuses away!

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:01:50 +0000

I have another approach, where I try and get all my actual work done in fifteen minutes so I can spend the rest of my day reading blogs, messing around on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, whatever.

But your method might work better for some people, I suppose.