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Don’t You Forget About Me: Reimagining the Shermer High School Learning Resources Center for the Hyperlinked World – A TTW Guest Post by James Yurasek

Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois 60062. Although we only saw it for that one day, one of the greatest collaborations took place in a library.A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal each assigned to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing who they thought they were. One of the things that always struck me when watching the John Hughes classic The Breakfast Club, even long before I started the MLIS program, was how advanced the Shermer High School library was. Hopefully adding to what Jenkins (2006) calls the “Collective Intelligence” of media […]