I can't believe how much discussion there was about copyright this week. Right after I did the reading and posted on Monday, it seems that everything copyright was in the news. I listen to the Podcast called "Buzz Out Loud" on cnet.com, and they focused heavily on google and copyright in the news. It just doesn't make sense to me that so much time and energy is wasted trying to get money out of certain material. I would be glad to have google providing access to my books essentially for free....

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During my RA shift this week, I was once again met wit a series of silly questions by various patrons. And just like last week, there were some which were too strange to give out to the community. However there were some questions that although silly in nature (they were all from the same user) were also rather though provoking too. It was eventually decided that all would pass since we were so low on questions anyway, but it made me wonder... If we "indulge" (aka allow) a patron's silly questions,...

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For this weeks assignment I was quite fortunate to have randomly chosen such a wide array of varied resources. The greatest challenge of which was to identify the usable resources versus those which disguise themselves as useful.

One site in particular looked great and even provided a reasonable amount of information, however it was tied to a commercial site that blanketed nearly every page and article. No matter the resource, I think the most valuable lesson learned is that even...

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1) Compare and contrast these three technologies for offering reference services.

After having tested the various methods of digital reference services, I would say that the biggest difference between them has to do with the style of service and length of response. While using e-mail you as a librarian are set to a particular format in which to respond, but are free to respond at length. Similarly, the e-mail reference librarian is under a great deal of assumption as they may...

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This weeks assignment I found very interesting as it gave me a new perspective on the reference interview. Normally we are only working with what we accomplish on our own, but in this case we can see truly diverse examples of other librarians in the field. The first example in particular reminded me of the many technical service calls I used to have to make back when I owned a PC. Answers would be released without any concern for the root cause of the problem, a scenario which is clearly...

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