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		<title>Gettin Smart, the BlackBerry Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know it is so five years ago, but my foray into smartphone ownership does not involve an iPhone or an Android.  This winter I got my very first BlackBerry. This Christmas Eve, our beloved hellion Fergie knocked my cellphone into the bathtub with her paw. We took it apart and tried to dry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=2418&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1973 Archives: &#8220;The Frightening Computer Trend&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday as I was scavenging historical tidbits to share via my library&#8217;s #todayinhistory Twitter feed, I came across this treasure from the August 23, 1973 edition of the Lawrence Journal-World.  I&#8217;m fascinated that this satirical piece was published long before the Internet (and especially social networks) were widespread.  Viva technophobia! To help put this in context: just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=3297&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ebook Lending Is a Drag, But Let&#8217;s Talk About It.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can get pretty grumpy (kind of like this cat in a googly-eyed hat) when I think about public libraries and ebook lending.  Our three biggest challenges remain: software interfaces that are too hard to use; steep vendor prices that put a huge strain on library budgets; and limited availability, including no ebooks for Kindle!! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=2426&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curating Local Twitter Lists for Your Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My public library&#8217;s Twitter account has over 1800 followers.  1800!  This fall, a handful of us sat down to brainstorm how to get the most out of our amazing following. In the end, we came up with three big goals.  First was to pare down the number of Tweeters we were following back, in order [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=3235&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone Let&#8217;s Get Social</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just attended a workshop where we talked about social bookmarking and tagging, I thought this would be an opportune time to tell you all about a fun project I worked on early last winter!  Two fellow students and I had been tasked with proposing a &#8220;digital information resource&#8221; &#8212; yep, pretty broad!!!  But our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=1517&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web 2.0 or: RSS, Where Have You Been All My Life?</title>
		<link>http://bananasuitlibrarian.com/2011/01/20/web-2-0-or-rss-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know it&#8217;s going to be a great workshop when you&#8217;re given a paper-bag stuffed full of chocolate as you walk through the door!  This Tuesday morning I drove an hour to Independence, Missouri, to attend a KCMLIN workshop called &#8220;Web 2.0 in Your Library: Web Applications that Facilitate Interactive Information Sharing.&#8221;  Beth Willis, Public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=2852&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KCMLIN Workshop: Exploring Web 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I&#8217;m attending a great KCMLIN workshop about Web 2.0 at the library.  I&#8217;m really enjoying hearing about some of the different options and strategies for libraries to explore when starting blogs of their own.  We&#8217;ve been talking about niche blogs that could be fun to try, such genealogy blogs, book blogs or events blogs, and I&#8217;m looking forward to suggesting some of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=2863&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Net Neutrality: Then and Now</title>
		<link>http://bananasuitlibrarian.com/2011/01/05/net%c2%a0neutrality-then-and-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Daily Show does Net Neutrality, July 19, 2006) . About two weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission voted to enact a new set of Net Neutrality rules that will regulate how broadband companies are allowed to direct traffic on the internet.  Although the new regulations don&#8217;t go as far as some consumer watchdog groups [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=1519&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pythons &amp; Snow Bunnies</title>
		<link>http://bananasuitlibrarian.com/2010/12/06/the-snow-bunny-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around this time last winter, I was learning how to write code in the computer language, Python.  I thought that knowing how to code would make me a better librarian, and so I signed up for a grad class at the U of I.  For the record, I hadn&#8217;t cried because of a class since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=2017&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Kindle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first bought my Kindle about 18 months ago, it was kind of a pain in the neck to use.  Amazon offered a pretty limited selection of titles for purchase that didn&#8217;t quite suit my nerdy tastes, and I couldn&#8217;t buy titles from anyone else because they wouldn&#8217;t be compatible with my Kindle.  Which was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bananasuitlibrarian.com&amp;blog=7408985&amp;post=1996&amp;subd=yellowbananasuit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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