Research means...

Here's my most recent AISL post, reviewing a session that I attended last month on preparing students for college-level research. I'd love feedback on the types of research you did in college, your preparedness, and (gulp) whether you used the help of librarians to complete your work. http://aislnews.org/?p=1287

Where do you go first?

Google Drive

Very true...collaboration, revision history, and no more lost documents

Return your library books

 

Books are due. So the option is to change my attitude or to change the expectation that books will return of their own accord as the school year winds down. One thing I am looking forward to as more of the collection is digital is less time chasing down students for items they don't always remember borrowing. 

Anyway, as I've said 1000 times to students already this week, "I'm not mad. I'm actually really glad you're using the library. I just want the books back. And if you're still reading them, tell me and I'll renew them and stop bugging you." 

Oh, and "Don't lie if you've lost the book.

There was a bright stop on the horizon recently when I asked the Middle Schoolers who had books with them in their cubbies and left the building with an Ikea bag chock full of titles. (Even one that had survived a backpack battle with a stick of deodorant. Mmmm...freshness.) Small victories! 

For everyone else, 

Coldplay hides lyrics in libraries

Coldplay announce lyric sheet treasure hunt for Ghost Stories album

The words to all nine of Ghost Stories' songs have been concealed in haunted tales at libraries around the world  http://gu.com/p/3zndd

Chris Martin of Coldplay performs at Austin's SXSW festival. Photograph: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images

Coldplay have announced an international scavenger hunt for handwritten lyrics from their new album. The words to all nine of Ghost Stories' songs have been concealed in haunted tales at libraries around the world, beginning with a library in Mexico City.
"¡Ándale! ¡Ándale!"Coldplay tweeted yesterday, sending their Mexican fans on a race to the English literature section of the city's Vasconcelos library. There, in a translated copy of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a lucky scavenger found Chris Martin's lyrics for Ghost Stories' lead single, Magic.
The rest of the eight sets of lyrics are in unnamed cities "across the planet", from national capitals to a a town of less than 100,000 people. One of the envelopes also includes a "golden ticket" – with a flight to see Coldplay perform at London's Royal Albert Hall on 1 July. Hopefully it's not just hidden in Birmingham.
Martin discussed Ghost Stories on BBC Radio 1 on Monday night, admitting to Zane Lowe that this sixth album was heavily influenced by his split with Gwyneth Paltrow. "I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids, or illness," he said. "You have to really not run away from that stuff."
Martin also revealed that he blames himself for the dissolution of their marriage. "About two years ago I was a mess, really, because I [couldn't] enjoy the things that we [were] good at and I [couldn't] enjoy the great things around me because I [was so] burdened by this," he said. "[I thought] I've got to not blame anyone else and make some changes."
Martin and Paltrow, who share a nine-year-old daughter and an eight-year-old son, initially described their separation s a "conscious uncoupling". "It's not a question of you either really love someone or you really hate someone," Martin said. "Especially with the modern world's complications - like travelling and all the stuff that comes to life, and illness and addiction and all that sort of thing."