Thing #9

March of the Librarians
Created and narrated by Nick Baker


This fun youtube video, in the manner of March of the Penguins, was filmed at the 2007 annual American Library Association conference in Seattle. I found on it on Technorati, which has a category for video. The descriptive narrative mimics the film perspectives and conventions (no pun intended) of wildlife videos. Oh, but Lordy, are we old! I hope the library schools are recruiting. Every other person lifts a hoary head. That's spelled with an "h", girls.

As for the method of finding feeds that was the easiest: my favorite way and the easiest for me is to find some favorites RSS feeds in Bloglines or Google Blog Search, and then see what feeds the blogs I really like, are subscribing to. I have spent the better part of a week just browsing through library blogs, some of which lead to more. I have too many feeds right now, and will pare them down after I determine which ones I don't want to live without. I don't much like the newsfeeds, but I could see how we could use these in student research to get the latest news on a particular topic.

At first I found School Library Blog Supraglu site confusing, but then I found some wonderful posts. Sometimes I was looking for feeds, but instead simply got posts tagged with library.

Browsing, I found Sherricks from Australia. A teacher-librarian who appears to enjoy students, books, technology and she's an entertaining and engaging writer. http://skerricks.blogspot.com/