A “google jockey” is the person who finds information–usually from the web–to help support a lesson, lecture, or event. Say a fact is needed to help support understanding–the google jockey hops on to the Internet and finds a fact.  Take these three examples:

Example #1: The teacher is describing lunar eclipses to a classroom of students. The google jockey might venture out to search the web to find when the next eclipse will be. This site from NASA might provide the information for when the class would be able to see a lunar eclipse.

Example #2: A group of teachers are at a conference and the current topic is a Ning. The audience wants to know what the word “ning” actually means and where it comes from. The google jockey would find that the founder of Ning, Gina Bianchini, explains its name on the site’s blog.  They chose the name “Ning” because it means “peace” in Chinese.

Example #3: A group of musicians are at a meeting to find out about the local happenings in their city, in this instance Beijing. There’s word that The Killers would be coming to town. In order to verify this information a google jockey would go here to Timeout Beijing to find out if it’s true and here to Piao.com for tickets.

Most books are commonly ordered by their Dewey number plus the first three letters of the author’s last name. Individual biographies on the other hand are ordered differently. General biographies–usually about a group of similar people–are categorized under 920 in the usual way by the author’s last name. However more specific biographies about individuals and their areas of interest are given the 921-928 call numbers.  At our library at ISB we limit all our individual biographies to 921. To mix it up, the person the biography is about is the name listed on the spine label–not the author’s last name. This makes finding biographies a little easier since all you have to do is look for the individual’s last name within the 921 collection.  The 929 section is dedicated to genealogy: that’s the study of names.

Glogging is a form of online web logging similar to blogging yet it’s more graphics based.  Rather than writing a post, you actually express yourself through a digital type poster.  Glogster is easy to use and let’s you post pictures in a collage type manner to express how you’re feeling.  Also, you can add music to your post or even turn your glog post into an actual video.  This new form of web journaling takes blogging to the visual level.  Also, there’s a social aspect to it as well; you can become friends with other gloggers and make your own little glogging network.

Here’s a glog for my new puppy, Rani, and another one of me on the Great Wall both made on  Glogster.com:

*Please note: these are thumbnail size. When you make an actual glog, it turns out much larger. Also, if you do start glogging, my username is DearLibrariAnn if you want to join my glogging social network.