Osceola County is already warning residents about what Amendment 3 could mean for local services, including the county library system.

Did you ever play the game Whac-A-Mole? Either the big mat that I played on or the arcade game? You took a soft or plastic mallet and tried to hit the Mole that popped out of one of many holes. You…

You can control your location information inside various apps, if you choose, by turning off the location. The default is always sharing location. Sometimes, it helps to have the location turned on…

Generative AI (GenAI) chatbots will provide different information to the same question based on the location and timing of the user request (Gumilar et al, 2024). Think about that for a minute. It …

What is an end of year report for a school-based position? In short, it should be an opportunity to show off. You can display a long list of what you accomplished. You can share specific examples. …

This past week, I attended the Annual GALILEO Conference and enjoyed my sessions immensely. Most of the sessions involved artificial intelligence (AI) in some part of the discussions. Late in the a…

What did your last written Thank You note look like? I’ve seen many that go like this: “Thank you for the xx. It was very thoughtful. I will use/display/keep it. Sincerely.” Ugh. …

What is effective communication? How do we know we did it? Weaver (1953/2017) defines communication as “all processes in which one mind may affect another” (p. 136).  To put it a little clearer, co…

SB 74 will criminalize librarians by removing immunity for public librarians regarding "materials harmful to minors."

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Sam Helnick, current ALA President, has said repeatedly, we need to share our stories. Telling our stories helps others understand what we do, how we do it, what problems we encounter, and what suc…

Instead of a New Year’s Resolution, for the past 10 years, I have picked #oneword to focus on throughout the year. Sometimes, like resolutions, the word is pushed to the side. Other years, th…

Teens in my high school appear addicted to their devices. It is a constant distraction. This means that in the Media Center and in the hallways, the students have headphones on and on the cell phon…

How do you teach students to be able to make confident, succinct presentations in class? How do you teach colleagues to do the same? I am certain that every teacher has heard a presentation filled …

Part I: Teaching AI Environmental Impact In April 2025, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated on social media that there is a real energy cost associated with using phrases like “please” an…

At a recent conference, I gave a presentation about images and image manipulation. I then added artificial intelligence (AI) image creation. I showed a small part of John Oliver’s recent AI S…

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What if we teach what artificial intelligence (AI) is before we dive in? Hollands & Breazeal (2024) reviewed the MIT Day of AI initiative and its use in the 2022-2023 school year. The survey sh…

May is the time flowers and the End-of-Year (EOY) reports for the school year. This year became the Year of Caring for Each Other. Students, teachers, and staff all needed a little extra support. T…

Author: Gapingvoid Culture Design Group, Catalog: IMLS The Day the Librarians Disappeared ebook Published: Feb 24, 2023

There are so many volunteer, non-profit Boards. The neighborhood association has one. The schools have PTAs (or similar) and Foundation Boards. There are many, many organizations, both professional…

The parents of these students are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home.

In the 1800s, saloons would entice clients to come in with an offer of free lunch, if they paid for a drink (Quoteinvestigator.com, 2016). This was the best-known start of the phrase “no such…

Note: Years ago I abandoned New Year’s Resolutions for a focus word (#oneword). It works for me. Reflecting on 2024, I stayed true to my #oneword “Fulfilling”. I wanted to present…