I think the biggest thing that is important in staying up to date is setting time aside to dive into something new (Raymone, 2017). I am always talking to kids about what the new tech thing is so that I can attempt to stay relevant to their world, and find ways to make connections to…

My QR code will take you to the login page of my library catalog. I plan to post this around my library for students to use to login to view the catalog with their phone as they are pursuing the stacks. The Van Gogh Museum 4K tour was so cool! Van Gogh is one of…

3D printing is one of my favorite new technologies that libraries are adopting. When I purchased the library collection for my building, I took a risk and ordered four 3D printers to “tinker” with. I figured with a large budget for an opening collection, this would be the only time I would have the opportunity!…

For this Conference Presentation, I chose to focus on four digital tools that can all be utilized to help students add additional elements to their research projects and presentations that would allow them to “elevate” their materials. The intended audience for this presentation would be high school teachers and librarians who work with high school…

This sparked inspiration for my infographic. I took pictures of several plants in my home that are all apart of the same genus (philodendron). Then, I organized my information by shared and unique characteristics of each plant. A challenge that I encountered was deciding how to organize the information, because there are so many different…

Of all the different word cloud generators, I felt like WordItOut was the most likely candidate to show up in one of my lessons. WordItOut had the clearest line to the “create” function, which informed my thoughts about why I would rather use it as a tool with high school aged students. Although the color…

(Teston, C., 2017) (Gerard, C., n.d.) Using the Image Tools  (Teston, C., 2017) Pizap – Pizap was the tool that I found to be the easiest and most likely that I would use in a library setting. An immediate use that I found was being able to easily “cut out” the peony image above by…

Introduction Rubin & Rubin (2020) define special libraries as collections that can be found in organizations such as advocacy or special interest groups (p. 198). The Mazamas Library and Historical Collection contains history, artifacts, and other important items to the history of mountaineering and the organization as a whole.  Digital Access The website for the…

Introduction Over spring break, I visited the Coeur D’Alene area of Idaho to spend time with some close friends that live there. It was important to me to explore an academic library in this area, as CDA (Coeur D’Alene) is demographically and politically very dissimilar from both Portland, Oregon, and Norfolk, Virginia, the two cities…

Introduction The school library that I chose to visit for this assignment holds a special place in my heart. The Library Media Center for Milwaukie High School and Milwaukie Academy of the Arts serves the students of the middle school that I taught at for the last 6 years of my career prior to transitioning…