Double-tougned dictionary entries

Double-Touguned Dictionary Entries is a blog about slang and jargon. When I subscribed to it I was totally expecting it to be mainly teen slang which may be useful to someone who works with young adults. However, what I saw is slang that would mainly be used by 20-30 somethings. So as someone who falls in this catagory, I found the slang to be quite interesting and often times clever. I didn't like that each entry ends with an ad for the blog. This results in every blog entry having the same ad for itself which takes up half the entry. There has to be a more effective way.

Blog review

The blog, Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week highlights sources, mainly websites, that are of interest to librarians. Because they are posted on a regular basis, most of the websites have a timely quaility. For example, a link to Rachel Carson's homstead was posted in conjuction with her 100th birthday. The types of sites featured are very diverse, so it would be hard to use everything offered, but the diversity is also its strength. There were some very interesting sites that would be hard to find in one spot anywhere else. Also, I like to tie my lessons to current events, which is what the site features.

Video games

In the blog, The Shifted Librarian, she posted a blog entry about Gaming and Libraries Symposium Enthusiam. In it she makes the arguement for maintaining a video game collection or in lieu of that, a subscription to services like Gamefly.

With limited budgets and the diversity of game formats, I cannot see the justification for building a video game collection. When I think of the mission of a library, only a part of it is pure entertainment. Books, music, videos are all formats that include educational and entertainment components. Video games are almost all purely for entertainment. There are not too many educational games produced for Playstation or Gamecube. In these times of tight budgets, it is difficult to justify a gaming collection.