Welcome to the LiTTech Show! The show that highlights innovations and progress in Library Media Technology. And we are: Adrienne Matteson and I’m your host.... Emily Thompson Welcomes and introduction: What’s the big thing that happened this week? Newsishness? Hurricane? Library news? Happy New Year! Professional Resolutions: Emily is going to start her second masters and get the projector loans started. Addie is going to redo her library’s website... and continue to learn the names of her 500+ students. Item #1: The e-book battle will continue/there will be more and more open content http://tech.slashdot.org/submission/1890678/the-looming-e-book-library-lending-battle Sarah Houghton suggests http://openlibrary.org/ She also posted this after we recorded. If anyone’s up to speed, it’s the infamous Librarian in Black! http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2012/01/wss5.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Librarianinblack+%28LibrarianInBlack%29 Item #2: Libraries will continue to innovate http://www.npr.org/2011/12/10/143401182/libraries-make-room-for-high-tech-hackerspaces Dan Rezac sent me this article: http://www.cbc.ca/books/2011/12/david-weinberger.html#.TvrXq9lYPD5.facebook More will be done with tablets http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/12/29/the-digital-learning-farm-and-ipad-apps/ (Via Elisabeth LeBris) Item #3: School librarians/Media Specialists will have a difficult but inspiring year We don’t have any specific articles, but we’re hoping that the tide is turning. __________________________________________________________________________ Final Segment: What are we looking forward to? Insurgent by Veronica Roth (Sequel to Divergent, comes out May 12) Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (sequel to Delirium, comes out February 28) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (released January 10) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking ahead: Talking about ALA MidWinter That will do it for this week on the LiTTech Show. Emily Thompson emiathom@gmail.com @librarianofdoom librarianofdoom.com Adrienne Matteson queenaddie@gmail.com @queenaddie End of Show copy: Don’t forget to post your #EduWin. http://whatisyoureduwin.com/ Don’t forget to leave us a note at: littech@edreach.usThanks again for joining us. Continue the conversation at EdReach.us. We’ll see you next week! |
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