Cleaning The Closet

Here are a couple of interesting not quite so information literacy related things I've been meaning to post for a while. There was one more too, but I really can't remember what it was.

The Long Tail - Very interesting article from the October Wired (told you these had been simmering for a while). It has been blogged a million times but is still worth pointing out. Essentially it says that the "items" in the bottom 80% of sales/ streaming/rental from online sources like Netflix get used/ bought as much as the top 20%. It would be really cool for someone to do a study like this in libraries (if it hasn't been done already)since we hear so much about the 80/20 rule in relation to collections. And essentially libraries are the ultimate "long tail" collectors.

Digital Generations - This was a very interesting series of reports from NPR's Morning Edition last week about how the Internet effects regular folks lives. The one called Growing Up in a High-Tech World is especially interesting since these are our current/ future students. All of the stories are available to stream.