Some of the highlights
Gorski, Paul Privilege and Repression in the Digital Era: Rethinking the Sociopolitics of the Digital Divide
Lorenzo, George, et al How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture are Changing What it means to Be Net Savvy
Naidu, Som Designing and Evaluating Instruction for e-Learning
Perkins, D.N. Technology Meets Constructivism: Do They Make a Marriage
Woodward, Beth S. Technology and the Constructivist Learning Environment: Implications for Teaching Information Literacy Skills
Well, the wife and I spent our first Christmas in our house surrounded by boxes and a cat who is still pondering the wisdom of our move. Thankfully, she has started to purr again. The library is open with shorter hours this week to serve our grad and non-traditional students. I am currently working on book orders for my department, which I am sure I will be working on for the next few weeks. I already have a few instructional classes scheduled: two in the ESL area and one for a Learning Community (distance learning cohort) who have reached the Capstone phase of their studies. I would like to finish a tutorial, using Captivate, for our E-Books. I started this in September, but have had to put on the back-burner. Another reason it is taking so long, is that I am adding sound and making it ADA compliant. I will eventually get to some of the other tutorials over the next 8 months and add those components as well.
Finally saw this news item from the other day Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google .
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia,
is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he
hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo!—-
it is understood that amazon has also collaborated with Mr Wales
on the search engine project and is expected to lend its support
to the venture in the future.
It will be nice to see more competition in this area.
Moved into the new house this weekend. The wife and I will be unpacking for a few months. 
This brings up the point of this post. I take a few days off from work and I have a couple hundred emails, a few requests for class instruction, book orders from my department are almost due, which means I will be spending some good time verifying them before I send them back to acquisitions, I had to do database statistics today, had a reference meeting today, AND I am on the reference desk tonight. WHEW!!!! Does any of this sound familiar to anybody? It also looks like January, which is usually my catch up and special projects month is going to be just as busy. Hope everybody is having a good ’fill in the blank’ season.
I am in the midst of sickness at the moment AND I will be closing on a house with my wife Thursday, so you can imagine that my mind has been elsewhere at the moment. I was greeted with this as the headline of the online version of the Minneapolis StarTribune newspaper.
Council grants 3 libraries one-time funding
While the ranks of the Minneapolis police force will grow by 43 officers, the fates of three community libraries remain unclear even after the City Council voted Monday night to give them more money in adopting the 2007 city budget.
As disappointed as I am in the constant budget issues, I am glad that this is out front in the news.
Still doing book orders for my department
For those of you who do not know where the term “Nexus 6″ came from, look no further, as the Library of America will be releasing four classic novels from the author Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner), The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, andUBIK.Jonathan Lethem, another writer I recommend, will be the editor of this project. Looks like it will be out in June of next year. In the age of wiki, ipods, cloning, mysticism, and anti-depressants Dick is an excellent starting point for understanding this reality.
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.PKD
The Nexus 6
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