Yesterday, the folks in my UNT Cohort had a little email discussion. Someone was wondering why they should attend library school and had asked one of the cohort for insight. Links and articles were exchanged in that cool librarian way. It really ties in well with a discussion we had last night in my LIS701 class about job description and pay. Here are some pointers from that exchange: LJ Salary Survey: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6379540.html Information on where recent University of Michigan School of Information students found jobs upon graduation: http://si.umich.edu/careers/who-is-hiring.htm “What Can I Do with an MSI?” at http://si.umich.edu/careers/with-an-msi.htm Texas Library Association […]
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http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2006/11/stellenbosch_da.php Just a bit that caught my eye from Richard Wallis’s notes at Stellenbosch: The New Learning Landscape Prof Johannes CronjeTeaching and Training Studies University of Pretoria – Who Killed E-learning? The buzz-word e-learning has died The vision of the e-learning doing it all died with it – monumental failures Why? – over emphasis on technology being the life blood of e-learning presenting things – push technology – ppt/pdf too much text lack of on going support – no clear e-learning strategy – no maintenance of commitment Nobody will morn its passing we are looking – elsewhere Strong competition for […]
http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/the-world-is-flatrevisited/ Will Richardson returns to TWIF: I’m in the throes of research for a next book, and I’ve been going back to my highlighted, starred, underlined, exclamation pointed parts of The World is Flat in my idea collection process. I’m impressed at how well the implications for education seem to be holding together. Anyway, I came across this one starred part that I hadn’t remembered, a section titled “From Command and Contral to Collaborate and Connect.” I’m going to sub-in some of my own phrasing in italics, but I think there’s an interesting point made here: This is what happens […]
Via Jenny: John Berry, in an editorial at LJ, ponders Michael Gorman’s legacy as president of ALA: A traditionalist with whom I frequently agree, and just as frequently don’t, Gorman alienated the newest constituency in our professional ranks early on. He attacked the young and not-so-young library bloggers in these very pages (“Revenge of the Blog People,” BackTalk, LJ 2/15/05, p. 44). That, coupled with Gorman’s view that a more traditional approach to library education ought to balance the field’s obsessions with new information technology, turned off a huge number of the young technolibrarians so prominent in librarianship now. The […]
One of this summer’s LIS753 students posts another student’s examination of Privacy Codes of Ethics in the Corporate World and asks for comments. Maybe a TTW reader might have input: http://juliettelis753.blogspot.com/2006/09/privacy-code-of-ethics-in-corporate.html
Via the OPLS Blog: “12 Really Necessary Things to Learn” I’ll share this with my LIS701 Class tonight. http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/ten_things_to_l.html From Guy Kawasaki: 1. How to talk to your boss. 2. How to survive a meeting that’s poorly run. 3. How to run a meeting. 4. How to figure out anything on your own. 5. How to negotiate. 6. How to have a conversation. 7. How to explain something in thirty seconds. 8. How to write a one-page report. 9. How to write a five-sentence email. 10. How to get along with co-workers. 11. How to use PowerPoint. 12. How to […]
These are the books I’ve chosen as the contextual readings for my LIS701 class. 5 students will read each book and then late in the semester we will have a book discussion. We’ll look at how each book relates to themes we’ve studied and the LIS profession as a whole. Anderson, Chris. (2006) The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is selling Less of More. Hyperion. Beck, John and Wade, Mitchell. (2004) Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is reshaping Business Forever. HBS Press. Friedman, Thomas. (2005). The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Farrar, […]
Day One at Dominican Originally uploaded by mstephens7. Greetings from my new office in Lewis Hall! Things are well here — the campus is bustling like I’ve never seen (having only taught weekends) and the folks in GSLIS are incredible. Yesterday, I attended Convocation and spent some time meeting and greeting. Today, more of the same. My heartfelt thanks to all who have emailed or IMed to ask how things were going as this transition continues.
In the last weekend meeting of LIS753, we touched on the OPAC. I promised the class I’d share Karen Schneider’s incredible series: How OPACS Suck, Part 1: Relevance Rank (Or the Lack of It) How OPACS Suck, Part 2: The Checklist of Shame How OPACS Suck, Part 3: The Big Picture There are no required readings for the August class meeting, but give these a try. The may give you inspiration for a blog post!