THIS, ladies and gentlemen is what I love about being a librarian today. Right there. Wigs and costumes and workshops on how to do them better! Yesterday I had the pleasure of being a part of the first annual LIPopCon, a pop culture conference for librarians and educators. I attended three workshops, and all of them had me excited and planning for some fun things this summer and fall. I try hard to vary my literacies, but being a part of the comic and pop-culture world can be intimidating and overwhelming. Libraries, and especially teen librarians, are the gateway to these creative interests. At PopCon, we talked about the legitimacy of graphic novels in the reading and art realm, as well as how to serve the fandom teens and create a welcoming and inclusive spaces for all. Everyone who was there, was there with purpose and it was truly a great experience. I hope to see more of LI PopCon in the future!
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Summer Reading is nearly here and I'm up to my eyeballs in pinterest pages of crafts and activities. My summer calendar is jam-packed with activities and performers of all kinds and lots of things to keep families, kids and our teens engaged and feeling the "power" of libraries this summer. This week I went to the NLS Summer Reading workshop for a morning of idea sharing and motivation. It was great (and we made a craft!) I am thinking of those masks for our teens, as well as bringing in some real-life heroes for a weekly "Hero Hangout", in addition to the many programs and activities we will have on hand. What are some of your summer reading plans and activities? Share!
It all started with an app. Installing just one little app. Two hours later, there's no app and the iPad is hanging out of its kiosk shell. Why oh WHY is technology so incredibly frustrating?!?! In light of my recent talk on the glory of iPads in our tech-savvy-modern libraries, I am knocked right back down to size with today's recent escapade. You see, my department head/colleague found a bilingual app. We talked about it. We read up on it. It sounded great, had great reviews so we moved to download it to our children's public iPads..... But before we could download it we had to disable restrictions. Then we couldn't disable our restrictions until we connected to our secure WiFi.... Which we couldn't do until we closed out all our running apps... ....and opened our homepage for the WiFi terms and agreement page... Finally, 20+ minutes later we watched as the app slowly.... ever so slowly... downloaded. When it finally completed, we knew we would have to backtrack that whole process to enable restrictions once again, but first we decided to try the new app... Hello? Testing... 1,2 3. HELLO? Do you hear that? Right oh. Neither did we.As luck would have it the app had no sound. This is certainly not a good attribute for a language learning application. I closed the app and tried again. No luck. We opened another app. THAT app had no sound. Hmmmm... We deleted the app. We rebooted the ipad. All apps had sound once again. We re-downloaded that app. No sound on the app or the others again. So here we sit on a gray and rainy afternoon, struggling to get our bilingual app-less iPad to make a sound. For the price of only $2.99 you too can enjoy the hours of technology-maddening meltdowns and have nothing to show for it but a huge headache. Till next time my friends... . |
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