First poem

First student shelf-poem. A pretty profound fit, yes?

YearEnd Recap

Made a little ACSLIB recap report; fashioned after a sort-of Harper's Index.

2 x Pi

Our morning Pi team has a second unit up and running. Our Tech Support has made us a crossover cable so the intention is to create a two-player installation. I think this has been a great example of student-directed ownership and learning.

Media counterpoint

On opposite sides of the entrance to my library I have two media experiences for students to "try out."
On the right, I have a Playaway VIEW with a self-contained multimedia presentation about American History.

And on the opposite side I have a record player with a selection of instructional media from the 1940s though the 1970s; the favorite being a 78 rpm series entitled Typing to Music (choose among selections for 12 to 50 words per minute!)

I think the counterpoint of breaking-technologies-for-their-times not only illustrates the obvious evolution of technology, but encourages us to be skeptical about the pedagogy that technology  aspires to promote as, well, sound.