Last night in LIS701: Introduction to Library and Information Science, we discussed our five “context” books. Last semester we did this too. The books read this time were: Anderson, C. (2006). The Long Tail Beck, J., & Wade, M. (2004). Got Game: Ehrenreich, B. (2001). Nickel and Dimed Pink, D. (2005). A whole New Mind Weinberger, D. (2007). Everything is Miscellaneous We debriefed after two rounds of discussion and the class offered these challenges and traits: (Book titles are noted where applicable) Challenges for 21st Century Libraries • ability to meet niche markets that affect so much information (LT) • […]
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http://gslistoolbar.wordpress.com/ The third group developed a toolbar for the Dominican GSLIS! Students, faculty and staff can download and install the toolbar for instant access to LIS resources. I have officially melted into a puddle on the floor.
I really enjoy student blogging – especially LIS students. From a blog by a Knowledge Management grad student comes this: http://kmiscommunication.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/crap-happens/ I find it interesting that after I write this post, I’m going to tag it the wordpress way, so hopefully someone else can pull my thoughts out of cyberspace. Again, Cory Doctorow, co-author of the Boing Boing blog, postulates that collectively we can achieve our goal: the “communication of information,” as I like to call it. In its simplest form, isn’t commuication all about getting information from the sender to the receiver without a bunch of noise? (Thank you […]
Via David Warlick: http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2007/10/25/bringing-your-heart-with-you/ I especially liked it when he said, “you want your employees to bring their hearts with them to their jobs.” I think that this is especially important with teaching and learning. There is so much about teaching and learning that is about communication. And it seems to me that when communication has heart behind it, then it becomes especially sticky. Do you bring your heart to work? I honestly believe the best libraries will be those that have heart, creating environments, services and collections that encourage users’ hearts and bring us together. For example, I am […]
I am at the Schaumburg Township District Library Staff Day today for their staff institute. As I walked in, I saw this poster on the staff bulletin board. Wowza! So to Helene: I saw this and once again realized what a HUGE impact you’ve had on learning in libraries in the last 15 months. 🙂 Thank you! Learning 2.0 changed libraries!
Erik, Jaap, Michael, Geert and Edo Originally uploaded by Shanachietour
Erik and Geert in the Mothership Originally uploaded by Shanachietour Erik and Geert in the Mothership
I must thank the fellows of the LBI Shanachie Tour! Jaap, Erik and their colleague Geert came to campus at 1am on Saturday morning and – God Bless our Campus Security – they camped in our parking lot! Saturday morning found them awake and ready to speak to my LIS753 class. Afterward, they invited any interested students to play a round of What’s the Future of Libraries? with a spinning bottle. The cameras and videocams were grabbing every second: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14492454@N03/sets/72157602596452548/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/72157602580815945/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/shifted/sets/72157602568017465/ I was impressed with the students who participated and summed their feelings about where libraries are headed. The […]
Eli Jaap Erik Geert Originally uploaded by Shanachietour
I Have Been Waiting for these Visitors II Originally uploaded by mstephens7 Erik, Geert, and Jaap made a stop at Dominican on the Shanachie Tourto talk to my LIS753 class today. Thanks to all! See also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/382798882/