Journey, Marshall Tucker, Lynard Skynard, Dave Matthews Band, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Motzart, Lucinda Williams, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, KT Tunstall, Rossini, Puccini, Handel, bagpipes, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Accept, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Blue Oyster Cult, Rush, Iron Butterfly, Led Zepplin, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, DEO, Ratt, Perry Como, Ani Difranco, Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson, Missy Elliot, Aerosmith, Lenny Kravitz, The Mommas and the Papas, Neil Diamond, Jay-Z, B-52's, The Cure, The Clash, Paul Simon, The Beatles, Vivaldi, The James Gang, Buckwheat Zydeco, Joni Mitchell, Kingston Trio, Frank Sinatra, Mason Williams, Josh Groban, Los Lonely Boys, Sarah McLachlan, Bare Naked Ladies, Green Day, Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits, Clumsy Lovers, Robert Palmer, Busta Rhymes, Pharell Williams, James Brown
Movies
Office Space, High Noon, Dave, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pride and Prejudice, Blues Brothers, Sense and Sensibility, Don Juan DeMarko, Far and Away, Tombstone, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Babe, African Queen, Dr. Stranglove, A Hard Days Night, Young Frankenstein, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Pay it Forward, What's up Doc?, Jurassic Park, Wait Until Dark, Labyrinth, Spaceballs, Long Kiss Goodnight, Thornbirds, The American President, To Kill a Mockingbird, Twelve O'Clock High, Doctor Zhivgo, Lawerence of Arabia, The English Patient, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, The Great Escape, It's a Wonderful Life, It's a Charlie Brown Christmas, Hunt for Red October, Run Silent, Run Deep, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Erin Brokovich, Casablanca, Field of Dreams, African Queen, Apollo 13, Star Wars, Saving Private Ryan, Life is Beautiful, The English Patient, Gladiator
Television
The Office, Prison Break, Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park, Now, Austin City Limits, Charlie Rose, My Name is Earl, Friends, That 70's Show, MASH, House, 24, Law and Order, CSI, Ghost Whisperer
Books
By Ruth Colvin Clark (2006)
This book offers guidance on the most effective ways to use the three fundamental communication methods of training: visuals, written text, and audio. It is filled with multiple applications that fit a wide variety of training venues, formats of training materials, and methods for incorporating various training methods and materials into your own training.
By Henry Jenkins (2006)
This book “takes readers from Jenkins’s early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his more recent writing, combating moral panic and defending Goths and gamers…”
Helping Homeschoolers in the Library
By Adrienne Furness (2008)
This guidebook “seeks to bridge the gap between librarians and homeschoolers by answering these two questions: how are homeschoolers and how can librarians help them practically? By Cass R. Sunstein (2006)
Sunstein develops an optimistic understanding of the potential to gather information and use that knowledge to improve our lives. The author also provides ways to share and aggregate information, many Internet-based that assist companies, governments, and individuals to acquire, create, and provide information. By Nicholas Carr (2008)
Carr weaves together history, economics, and technology to describe how and why computers are changing and what that will mean to us. By Mark Frauenfelder (2007)
This book provides the ways and means for getting stuff done with the Web. There are hundreds of tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials, and workarounds included that will help you unleash your creativity, manage your time, collect resources, answer your questions, and much more. By RoseMary Honnold (2007)
This guide includes educational and recreational programs that will attract teens to the library. Included examples reflect the experiences of real libraries and real students. By Barbara R. Hamm (2004) This book contains fun-filled and informative activities that support language arts and social studies courses, literacy skills, and research ethics. The lessons are presented in this easy-to-use book and can be used in any sequence, and each activity is followed with an assessment or evaluation. Programming Collective Intelligence By Toby Segaran (2007)
The O’Reilly title “takes you into the world of machine learning and statistics, and explains how to draw conclusions about user experience, marketing, personal tastes, and human behavior all from information that you and others collect every day. By James B. Rule (2007) 324 Rule 2007
“This provocative book takes readers on a probing, far-reaching tour of the erosion of privacy in American society, showing that we are often unwitting accomplices, providing personal data in exchange for security or convenience.”
Transforming Library Service through Information Commons: Case Studies for the Digital Age By D. Russell Bailey and Barbara Gunter Tierney (2008)
The Information Commons (IC) works to unite electronic and traditional library resources to provide one-stop service for students at all levels. This guide includes notes from the field that will be useful for institutions considering the development of ICs.
About me: Okay, okay, so I was born in 1901. Just because I’m pretty old doesn’t mean I can’t reinvent myself from time to time. In fact, if you look over my “official” history, you’ll note I have had a number of Governmental-type titles. The last time I renamed myself was in 2006 when I became the Idaho Commission for Libraries.
The name change from the Idaho State Library happened because the things I do for Idaho librarians has changed. I’m what you would call, the “Library for Libraries.” And I’m darn proud of it too. Since 2002 I’ve been focusing my resources on assisting libraries to build the capacity to better serve their clientele.
I still make sure the Idaho library community finds the resources they’ve come to expect, including the Talking Book Service, Read to Me, LiLI, grant programs, and the Professional Development Service. But I’m also broadening my horizons, focusing on things Digital Natives (those people who grew up with the Internet) like to do—for instance, social networking (MySpace), IM’ing, blogging, Flickr, and more.
In fact there is so much stuff my staff is up to that they’ve set up MySpace pages of their own. Be sure and check “My Friends” and let me know if you want to be a friend too.
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Who I'd like to meet: Anyone interested in library services:
"Unconventional is a wonderful story full of heart, humor, and what it means to truly be successful. An A+ novel for the keeper shelf. " - Gemma Halliday, award-winning author
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Thanks so much for the add. I'm Makya. I'm a seven-year-old author. I want to share with you and your guest that 50% of all the money I earn goes into a scholarship fund for first-generation and low-income college students. With the money I raise, I buy course books for students in need. Like Maya Angelou, I want to be known as an intelligent, loving, and brave young lady who teaches others by doing, while also letting my LOVE FOR JESUS show in everything I do. Visit me on myspace. Be Blessed. Makya Stell, a.k.a. Tink-Tink
His room is unchanged, precisely as he left it to roll off for college. Even the snow and ice have not changed, with coyote prints jogging from house to barn.
The boy's walls sparkle with 5 x 7's of him in Little League and high school uniforms, green-stains over home-white. See the tacked-up pics of the weight transer men: George Brett, Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs. See the books on the shelf, dog-eared, one spike-scarred from a night as second base. See the books open from loneliness for the boy: Charlie Lau, "How to Hit .300," the Ted Williams autobio.
His sister parks on his bed, crazy for a battting practice pitcher who tosses soft rainbows. She looks into a plastic-covered Pete Rose apologia-not. She sees out the window a coyote with a white rabbit in its jaw grip. No, no, no. The coyote is carrying a baseball from the drafty barn, and this sister calls out, "Take the ball to him, take it all the way to Boise State," where there is no baseball played, for the boy must be crazy with all this snowpack and ice.
Are you going to the ALA midwinter meeting in Philadelphia? I'll be there on January 11-12, schmoozing and handing out bookmarks, business cards, and "sneak previews" of DEATH WILL GET YOU SOBER, which will be out on April 15, at the Mystery Writers of America -New York booth (#1962). If you go, please come by and say hello. :) Liz
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By Henry Jenkins (2006)
This book “takes readers from Jenkins’s early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his more recent writing, combating moral panic and defending Goths and gamers…”
