Library

=Peek into the library of the future.=


 * A **[|Kindle]** - just for you!
 * Visual Searching - an integrated portal - our **[|DESTINY]**
 * **[|Blogging]** in the library
 * **[|Customized Reviews]** - anyone can contribute (**//work in progress//**)
 * Collage Poetry(**//work in progress//**)

=**Up For Discussion**= Does Googlization and devices like the Kindle mean the end of the book as we know it? A threat to democracy?

**References**
Darnton, Robert. "Google & the Future of Book." [|The New York Review of Books], February 12, 2009, Vol. 56 No.2. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22281

**NOTES from April 1, 2009 meeting**
__**1st session: Kindle**__ Participants had hands on experience with a Kindle.
 * Can I buy a book in German and use the dictionary feature for definitions?
 * What is the definition of kindle?

__**2nd session: 701 library blog and our Destiny Catalog: visual searching and customized reviews**__
 * With all of the stuff we are doing, teacher pages, blogs, wikis, etc… are parents using/reading them?
 * Half of our kids have blogs
 * This whole new generation, their lives are public, we may not be comfortable with that depending on our generation
 * Blogging can start off small but in time it can snowball
 * What are kids doing when they blog?
 * they’re thinking it’s important for all of their friends to know what they are thinking and doing
 * you have to have a big ego to blog