Trinity College Returns to Newington

Tuesday Sept 18, 25 and Oct 2, 9 at 11:00 a.m. Trinity Professor Andrew De Rocco will lecture on "Nobel Lives: Five Women and Their Paths to the Prize." The classes will be examining five women who were honored with Nobel Prizes in the sciences: the Curies, mother and daughter; Marie Goeppert-Mayer(physics, Rita Levi-Montalcini(physiology), and Barbara McClintock(genetics). The classes are presented by the Academy of Lifelong Learning at Trinity College. There is still room in the class.

Please contact Trinity at 297-2125 or email them or visit their web page for more information.

I attended the class about E=MC2 last fall. I learned a lot from the professor and the other students in the class.

-vicky

Librarians Learn Web 2.0

The librarians at the Lucy Robbins Welles Library are learning about the social web and new applications that we can use to improve service to our patrons.

One new project is the teen book review blog - Teen Reviews. Currently teens can fill out a comment card and one of our librarians will add their review to the blog. See what other teens are reading and what they think about the books. We hope in the near future teens will be able to post to this blog themselves.

The reference department has created an internal wiki for our reference polices, memos, FAQs, bookmarks. We watched this YouTube video from Commoncraft shows to learn about wikis



As part of the reference wiki our Head of Reference also created a Del.icio.us account with our frequently used bookmarks. You can check out the ReferenceDepartment Bookmarks to see what sites we often go to when we answer your questions. Commoncraft also has YouTube video on social bookmarking.



If you have any suggestions for web2.0 applications that the library could use to improve service please leave a comment on this post.

-vicky