...and gone to Heaven! I'm not sure if I can legally post pictures from this library directly on my blog, but I would like everyone who reads this (all 3 of you) to go to their link and prepare to salivate.
What the money!? What the allocation of resources!? What the commitment!? What the wealthy community!? I nearly shed a tear tonight. This is amazing. The children's section is out of this world. Who wouldn't want to spend every waking hour here?
I don't love the "mall" concept I can see happening in some pictures, but it looks really sharp. I'm truly speechless.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Get Back on the Saddle
Well, I just applied to work in the Library of Congress. A girl can dream, can't she? I've been pretty discouraged lately because I haven't gotten several sweet library jobs I've applied for. It's like crack and I'm having withdrawals...ok, working in a library isn't like crack at all. But I'm having withdrawals all
the same.
But yesterday when I was working on my homework I said "No, Corky", I've got to keep in library land whether or not I am currently employed by one. I've got my trusty subscription to ALA and I'm on a few email lists, not to mention library school itself. SO, I'm going to try and blog more frequently about the goings on I read about in the land of library.
Here is something awesome I read in my Web Design class last week. We were talking about web security and the idea of copyright and my teacher cited this awesome bit.
There is the humorous example of Presidential candidate Senator
John McCain's Web site using a graphic that they liked by linking
to that graphic on another person's Web site without permission.
Evidently, the person who controlled the Web site (and the graphic image)
didn't particularly care for John McCain. He changed his graphic
to display text that the showed the Senator had changed his position
on a prominent social issue in a very unexpected way! :-D
Needless to say, the McCain Web site people changed their Web site very quickly!
I already had several reason for not voting for MCcain and while this one might seem stupid to many, it's not to me. Not only did the Mccain campaign not CARE about copyright and getting permission (as evidence by the Campaign's insistence on using artists' songs on the campaign trail long after they demanded they stop-HEART and VAN HALEN no the least among them), but they didn't appear to KNOW about issues like these. I can accept if MCcain himself doesn't know the intricacies of the internets or how copyright works...but that'ts what you hire experts for!!!
I just have to add that one of my favorite things about Obama is that he has surrounded himself with experts. The way he has used technology in his Campaign is amazing. I feel like he represents a 'return of the expert' to the White House, after a long winter of "my college buddies youngest grandson who knows a little something about stuff".
the same.
But yesterday when I was working on my homework I said "No, Corky", I've got to keep in library land whether or not I am currently employed by one. I've got my trusty subscription to ALA and I'm on a few email lists, not to mention library school itself. SO, I'm going to try and blog more frequently about the goings on I read about in the land of library.
Here is something awesome I read in my Web Design class last week. We were talking about web security and the idea of copyright and my teacher cited this awesome bit.
There is the humorous example of Presidential candidate Senator
John McCain's Web site using a graphic that they liked by linking
to that graphic on another person's Web site without permission.
Evidently, the person who controlled the Web site (and the graphic image)
didn't particularly care for John McCain. He changed his graphic
to display text that the showed the Senator had changed his position
on a prominent social issue in a very unexpected way! :-D
Needless to say, the McCain Web site people changed their Web site very quickly!
I already had several reason for not voting for MCcain and while this one might seem stupid to many, it's not to me. Not only did the Mccain campaign not CARE about copyright and getting permission (as evidence by the Campaign's insistence on using artists' songs on the campaign trail long after they demanded they stop-HEART and VAN HALEN no the least among them), but they didn't appear to KNOW about issues like these. I can accept if MCcain himself doesn't know the intricacies of the internets or how copyright works...but that'ts what you hire experts for!!!
I just have to add that one of my favorite things about Obama is that he has surrounded himself with experts. The way he has used technology in his Campaign is amazing. I feel like he represents a 'return of the expert' to the White House, after a long winter of "my college buddies youngest grandson who knows a little something about stuff".
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