Tame The Web – Page 6 – "We must never forget that the human heart is at the center of the technological maze…" -Stephen Barnes

Keynote from the 15th Annual Information Literacy Summit, hosted by DePaul University Libraries and Moraine Valley Community College Library (http://informationliteracysummit.org). Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Compliance | Information Literacy Keynote, Emily Drabinski —————– Troy A. Swanson is Department Chair and Teaching & Learning Librarian at Moraine Valley Community College. […]

Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Compliance by TTW Contributor ...

This entry was posted in TTW Guest Contributor TTW Guest Contributor: Dr. Troy Swanson on May 3, 2016 by troyswanson

I have been taking part in a leadership program for IT personnel within our university system. It’s a 9-month program, with 2-day workshops and on-the-job activities sprinkled throughout. One of the very first things we discussed was reflective practice: how it can be used to promote personal growth and how […]

Reflective Practice – A TTW Guest Post by Kristen Tuel

This entry was posted in TTW Guest Contributor on April 27, 2016 by Jessica Gilbert-Redman

Traverse Area District Library: Not Just Books

This entry was posted in Libraries and tagged tadl Traverse City on April 26, 2016 by Michael Stephens

My new column is up: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/04/opinion/michael-stephens/talk-about-compassion-office-hours/ A common punch line in the librarian oeuvre pertains to the number of cats a particular librarian may own. We all know that librarians are dog people, too, as evidenced by the multiple Facebook photos I see of various canine biblio-companions. I am sure librarians […]

Office Hours: Talk About Compassion

This entry was posted in Editorial and tagged office hours on April 23, 2016 by Michael Stephens

In recent years, the tiny house movement has gained momentum as more and more people are making the shift toward smaller spaces with fewer belongings. While purging clutter can be a freeing experience, learning to live without can also pose some challenges. Fortunately, mobile information environments and new models of […]

Evolving Libraries and the Tiny House Movement – A TTW ...

This entry was posted in TTW Guest Contributor on April 20, 2016 by Jessica Gilbert-Redman

Jan Holmquist details an interesting way libraries have helped keep services open in the face of funding cuts: An “open library” is a library with a combination of hours staffed with professional librarians and hours with self-service. That combination has proved itself successful because the result is more loans and lots […]

Open Libraries in Denmark

This entry was posted in Information Professionals Librarians, Libraries & the Profession on April 17, 2016 by Jessica Gilbert-Redman

One of the big themes running through my life as a student this semester is connecting, mainly through connecting to others in the profession through the Internet. When I recently read the quote from the New Yorker about “some of our closest friends and most significant professional connections are people we’ve […]

Connecting – A TTW Guest Post by Andrea Meszaros

This entry was posted in TTW Guest Contributor on April 13, 2016 by Jessica Gilbert-Redman

A shout out to all the good folks who came to my talk the last day of the Public Library Association Conference 2016 & all the librarians who stopped me to ask “How is Dozer?” Denver was such a welcoming city – and I so enjoyed talking with public librarians […]

Thanks #PLA2016

This entry was posted in Conferences & Presentations on April 12, 2016 by Michael Stephens

Join me at the next Library 2.016 online mini-conference in June: Library as Classroom June 15th, 2016 12:00 – 3:00pm US-Pacific Time In A New Culture of Learning, authors Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown write, “Where imaginations play, learning happens.” This could and should define our services for now and […]

Library 2.016: Library as Classroom Online Mini-Conference Call for Proposals

This entry was posted in Information Professionals Librarians, Libraries & the Profession Library 2.0/Web 2.0 on April 4, 2016 by Michael Stephens

This week we held our own Human Library event at my library. The short video below is a quick overview. The Human Library as an idea has been around for a while now, but it is becoming increasingly common in libraries. We utilized it as a way for students from […]

Our Human Library Event by TTW Contributor Troy Swanson

This entry was posted in TTW Guest Contributor: Dr. Troy Swanson and tagged Dr. Troy Swanson on April 1, 2016 by troyswanson