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Jonathan Nana Obuobi comments on Computer Skills for Information Problem-Solving

Jonathan Nana Obuobi — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:53:56 +0000

QUESTION 5: As information System Technical officer, you are required to provide technical advice to Mckanzie Financial institute about installation of new set of computers that they have taken delivery off. What will be your advise with regards to the following and why?
a) Partition type to be used
b) File system
c) Operating
d) Backup strategies

Ebrima Cham comments on Top Ten Secrets for a Successful Workshop

Ebrima Cham — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:09:53 +0000

A million thanks for those wonderful suggestions. I bet they works ! Surely, using them can help me in my facilitator-ship.

Thanks Doug. :)

Doug Johnson comments on Weed!

Doug Johnson — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:52:55 +0000

Hi Carolyn,

My advice is to weed and then let the accreditation report reflect that the collection is not adequately funded. Pointing out deficiencies is one of the reasons accreditation studies are done.

Doug

Carolyn comments on Weed!

Carolyn — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:53:43 +0000

But seriously, how do you handle the accreditation problem. I already don't have the number of books required, but I sure do need to weed. What is your advise?

Terrie Hazard comments on Changed but still critical: Bricks and mortar libraries in the digital age

Terrie Hazard — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:41:20 +0000

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I'm a Library Media Specialist in a high school in Michigan. I love the idea of the library as a "learning commons."

drew tappin comments on Why I Write

drew tappin — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:09:35 +0000

Hi there, I've just started writing my own blog and marketing, I went to University and came out with a degree that I will never use going for a job I never wanted, so I stumbles into the film construction industry to get some money in, not realy what I'm looking for when it comes to work but it's money. When I was at school when taking my GCSE's I was told I was dyslexic, teachers thought I was just slow when they found out it was too late for the tests, but I was not going to let this stop me and got an education. Whats funny is even though my spelling is darn awful and grammar is much to be desired few months ago I started writing a book, Why? It something I never done before and I have so much imagination that I want to get in down on paper... so I tried a short book that when it comes back from getting checked out will be selling in on amazon. I will let you know when I have it up and running in my blog so please keep an eye out and give me some feedback on it. Positive and negative please be truthful. At the moment on the blog I'm just marketing somethings to get some rep and a little cash flowing.
Have a look and see what you think comments are always welcome.

Regards

Drew

RVD comments on Top Ten Secrets for a Successful Workshop

RVD — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:10:50 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I feel I can tackle this upcoming workshop now! I haven't done a 1/2 day workshop in so long that I feel I'm starting from scratch. I so appreciate your great outline--I was putting mine together in my head as I was reading this!

Mathgen comments on X-files: a Computer Jinx

Mathgen — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:11:53 +0000

I'm 51 y.o. portuguese guy, my grandfather was a watchmaker, had a shop with many famous brands and he could never give a watch to me or to my mother (suffers the same problem) that works properly, they were always ahead or delayed, sometimes in total madness! In the seventies the liquid crystal watches were popular, i had one but it didn't last for too long; after a couple of months the numbers in the display disappeared; i assumed the battery was off so i bought a new one. It worked for a couple of weeks but the same problem happened and so i put the watch in an drawer locker. Every time i opened it the watch was working and i started to use it again until it stops; call me stupid but it was the first time i realized the watch just doesn't work with... ME! After that i tried other kind of watches but the result was always the same; from my experience i can tell you this: the thinner the watch is the quicker it brakes. Now: the problem is not only with wrist watches but with all clocks around me. Years ago i started to notice a constant delay in the time shown in the clocks of computers and the cars i have; i establish a pattern: 10 minutes in three months for all of them!!! Cell phones (always had Nokias) same story until now: i have an iPhone and last year didn't show any malfunction with the clock. Among PCs and Macs, same story of the 10 minutes delay in three months but now, after 2 years of good work the clock of my iMac starts to... go ahead! And it goes ahead... 10 minutes in three months for the last 6 months, until now two times. That's why i was searching the net for some explanation this is a freaking story, i found nothing except a forum and this blog… For all who experienced this, no need to say that friends and people in general say that's impossible in scientific terms (thanks a lot i know that) and some start to think why do i "make up this story": do i need attention, do i need to make myself special with a bizarre story? Do i have a twisted ego? At 51 years old i don't care anymore with that but every time i need to set the clocks i remember this "little crazy thing" about me. Three months ago i wondered if there's a club, society or any institution that studies these things but only now i really googled to look for an answer. Thanx

Doug Johnson comments on Signs of a welcoming library

Doug Johnson — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:21:28 +0000

Good point, Alejandra.

Doug

Alejandra comments on Signs of a welcoming library

Alejandra — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:35:50 +0000

Teachers are always asked to word their classroom rules in a positive statement rather than a negative one. Example : "No eating in class" is changed to "Finish your food outside before coming to class", etc.

So I think this applies to the library so we should all word our rules the same way.