If you are planning to attend COMO on Friday, Oct. 15, would you consider volunteering to review resumes for those in the job market? The "Resume Review" session sponsored by the New Members Round Table is from 9:00-9:50 a.m. in Athena Ballroom H. You would meet one-on-one for about 10-15 minutes on a first-come, first-served basis with a personwho presents his/her resume to you for constructive criticism. So far, we just have two people who have volunteered. A few more would be most appreciated, as this has been a popular session in the past.

If you are planning to attend COMO on Friday, Oct. 15, would you consider volunteering to review resumes for those in the job market? The "Resume Review" session sponsored by the New Members Round Table is from 9:00-9:50 a.m. in Athena Ballroom H. You would meet one-on-one for about 10-15 minutes on a first-come, first-served basis with a personwho presents his/her resume to you for constructive criticism. So far, we just have two people who have volunteered. A few more would be most appreciated, as this has been a popular session in the past.

Some interesting thoughts on e-books from a textbook industry blog:Nine Important Trends in the Evolution of Digital Textbooks and E-learning ContentThe increased disaggregation of content and the breaking up of the traditional textbook model — The movement toward disaggregated content has been seriously afoot ever since iTunes appeared and we started talking about songs instead of albums. We see this happening increasingly in education as digital capabilities allow us to take content apart easily and remix it into new, personal/custom collections.

Some interesting thoughts on e-books from a textbook industry blog:Nine Important Trends in the Evolution of Digital Textbooks and E-learning ContentThe increased disaggregation of content and the breaking up of the traditional textbook model — The movement toward disaggregated content has been seriously afoot ever since iTunes appeared and we started talking about songs instead of albums. We see this happening increasingly in education as digital capabilities allow us to take content apart easily and remix it into new, personal/custom collections.

I haven't used Google sites too much since I have so much webspace under my namesake domain, but I found this interesting. You can use google sites APIs to export, delete content (eeks, use with caution, I'd say), and more. Very cool -- although I'd love to be able to (export/import) dump the CONTENT of a google site directly into a spreadsheet or google docs (hint, google!) without having to do any extra work. Now that would be handy and I might actually use google sites more.http://code.google.com/apis/sites/

I haven't used Google sites too much since I have so much webspace under my namesake domain, but I found this interesting. You can use google sites APIs to export, delete content (eeks, use with caution, I'd say), and more. Very cool -- although I'd love to be able to (export/import) dump the CONTENT of a google site directly into a spreadsheet or google docs (hint, google!) without having to do any extra work. Now that would be handy and I might actually use google sites more.http://code.google.com/apis/sites/

Everybody KNOWS that librarians don't really shush you anymore... and hey, this is the LITERAL version (original is head over heels)."I've got a stack of books to return, I wish they were better"... heh, haven't we all been there? ♥ tears for fears, though.

Everybody KNOWS that librarians don't really shush you anymore... and hey, this is the LITERAL version (original is head over heels)."I've got a stack of books to return, I wish they were better"... heh, haven't we all been there? ♥ tears for fears, though.

Very interesting article about the connection between creativity and inspiration, and the impact of the influence of others."When we over-saturate ourselves in other people's work it short-changes our own creative development."I have often felt this way, although I realize that developing or creating in a vacuum isn't necessarily a good thing, either. However, having the space for "deep thought" (which is in itself a creative process), is important to tapping into originality.

Very interesting article about the connection between creativity and inspiration, and the impact of the influence of others."When we over-saturate ourselves in other people's work it short-changes our own creative development."I have often felt this way, although I realize that developing or creating in a vacuum isn't necessarily a good thing, either. However, having the space for "deep thought" (which is in itself a creative process), is important to tapping into originality.