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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Why Our Education System is Failing Us

Why Our Education System is Failing Us « Personal Growth & Personal Development

Today’s school system is built upon a foundation that was created over 100 years ago. Unfortunately, it has changed very little since being formed during the Industrial Age.

We still hold millions of kids hostage for approximately 35 hours a week. Students are ushered from room to room by the sound of an annoying bell and worst of all, students and teachers are working around an outdated system that was designed to produce industrial workers.

Takes an interesting, and for me, new viewpoint on the problems schools are facing. Mentions some things I remember from my own childhood. My aunt is homeschooling all 4 of her children because even the “gifted” programs at the schools in her area aren’t adequate for them.

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Friday, February 9th, 2007

I’m a librarian

YouTube - iACPL
too true lol

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Saturday, October 14th, 2006

Sweetie | Free icon set

Sweetie | Free icon set
ons to use in your nifty web application. They are licenced under a Creative Commons licence, so commerci

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Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Texture King: Free Stock Textures

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Texture King: Free Stock Textures

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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Librarian Schwag

CafePress sent out a link to all their library stuff so I’m posting my list of favorites here.

My absolute favorite, it’s just so me.
Favorite #2
Some idiot actually used the phrase “Radical Militant Librarians “. Our feelings were so hurt. :-), Here’s the full quote.
My boss’s favorite
I like this one. But it really screams Heather to me.
For Mom.
My third favorite.
I wanted this today.
So true.
So pretty.
My favorite sentence I can’t say.
Hehehe
Cool
LOL
Heather and I will have to share.
Arwen!
The Original. I still want it.
Not really library-related.
SCA Librarian.
The secret is out.

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Monday, August 8th, 2005

library humour - a photoset on Flickr

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Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, full-text of the 1998 edition.

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Thursday, January 20th, 2005

BlogBib

Blogs are an easy, cost-effective PR tool for savvy librarians and have been implemented, for various purposes, in every type of library. This annotated bibliography includes definitions, articles about blogging and about library blogs, books, studies, links to samples of the myriad library blogs, tools for creating and using blogs, and links to presentations on blogging.

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Monday, December 20th, 2004

Gotcha

Gotcha is your guide to Knowledge Management (KM). It is designed for those who are new to KM and still exploring its fundamentals, as well as for power users looking to expand their KM resources or understanding.

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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

Information Architecture Research

Information Architecture Research includes a great list of online articles.

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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

adaptive path » metadata for the masses

Talks taxonomies without getting mired in information architecture nonsense (i.e. easy to read).

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Sunday, October 17th, 2004

37signals: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design

we have to break our design problems up into small independent chunks based on the real issues within our requirements. Christopher Alexander, who came up with this stuff, calls these chunks patterns.

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Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

Faceted Classification

Web Design Practices | Faceted Classification

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Wednesday, August 18th, 2004

Information Architecture Heuristics

Bloug Entry (Aug 17, 2004):Information Architecture Heuristics

Every information architect should always have a set of favorite questions in their back pocket; they really do come in handy.

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