The potential of the internet as an avenue for providing services and for maketing is huge for libraries. Not traditional. Probably unerused. But potential. And huge. Welcome then is this offering about just what we can do with Web 2. This is my ezine, Library Bytes – scroll down to the article link.

We can use the internet for so much in our lives, and many of us learn, mostly by trial and error whether to trust the material on any given site. It appears that at school, however, students are using material without judging it efficacy or its source. Welcome then the teaching of how to evaluate websites. Many teacher librarians have taken this as part of their job. In my reearch for ed news bytes I discovered a wonderful site that provides information on evaluating websites.
Useful, undoubtedly, for adults as well.

Here in my part of the world, we are experiencing water shortages. And it would seem that they are not going to go away. The population is growing faster than the infrastructure. Suddenly a commodity we took for granted (a great surprise to me when I came to the city from a farm!) is no longer invisible. We have to make it a focus, and plan and organise to conserve it. Not a moment too late, of couse. But it was with interest then, that I read this article while researching for my other blog, Pivotal News Bytes. It asks Is water the next oil? And it certainly rings true.

News arrived during the week of a new publication. This is an old children’s favourite at all the libraries I work in and visit, but it has been republished, and dare I say, censored. Maybe edited is a better word. I blogged the event on my library blog and in Pivotal Communicationbecause somehow the ramifications are echoing. I guess I objected to children’s publishers trying to please vocal pressure groups. But having thought about it, given that fewer people are smoking, then perhaps the depiction of the father figure without a cigarette in his hand is simply a better depiction of reality. And that, of course, is the trend in childrens literature, isn’t it? – towards reality rather than to creating dreams and illusions.

Visit the original New York Times article.

The latest issue of the self-improvement ezine, Pivotal Personal Best has gone out.

Contents are:

1. Great time management advice
2. Behind the magic
3. Is your business safe from internet security threats?
4. 5 Ways to Protect Your Most Essential Commodity

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