 this place did not exist last time i was here pstamatiou's photo on Instagram..."Undergraduate Learning Commons" 
"BEFORE - a dusty reference section yfrog.com/ocx1zvxj AFTER - a shiny new nonfiction section yfrog.com/kj5i6duj #tlchat" 
Research projects in progress this week @ The Unquiet Library! Includes a slideshow and links to this week's collaborative projects! School Library Monthly Blog » Blog Archive » Enjoy Our Class Book : Information Literacy in the Wild
"On behalf of the University of Michigan’s SI 641 / EDCURINS 575 : Information Literacy for Teaching and Learningclass, I invite you to download a copy of our 170+ page book, Information Literacy in the Wild.In this book, we share our experiences doing observations, teaching, and online resource creation related to information literacy in public libraries, K-12 classrooms, K-12 school libraries, college classrooms (online and face-to-face), academic libraries, educational outreach projects, the natural history museum, and more. As their professor, I couldn’t be more pleased with their honest, unvarnished looks at what’s working in information literacy and what isn’t. So much of library literature is written as if there’s never a problem — everything goes off without a hitch. Ooh, doesn’t that make us jealous? But what I love about the deft hand of these writers is that they lift the veil and show you when the boat rocked and then what they did to right it..." Andromeda tells her story of how she and her friends from around the globe, banned together through social media to build a library in India. TEDxPrincetonli... 
Three 5th grade boys just finished a book study with me in the library using our e-readers. The boys were interested in reading something football-related, so we looked at several options before ...
from @brianmathews: "Library Grill Cheese for finals is a big hit... who knew that students would dig sandwiches at 1am? #virginiatech http://pic.twitter.com/dMAEDCuT " 
"Makerspaces just might take over libraries. School of Information Studies professor Dave Lankes seems to think so. In his presentation to New York State librarians earlier this month, he asked the roomful of librarians to imagine libraries as places for people to learn and create, not consume and check out. In another talk he gave in October, he declared, “What will kill our profession is not ebooks, Amazon, or Google, but a lack of imagination.” What’s a Makerspace? 
ou’ll hear a lot of talk about the “death of the public library” these days. It isn’t simply the perpetual budget crises that many face either. It’s the move to digital literature, and the idea that once there are no more print books (or rather if there are no more print books), the library as an institution will cease to exist.Librarians will remind you, of course, that a library is much more than a book repository. It’s an information center (free and open information, I should add). It’s an educational center. It’s a digital access center. It’s a community center. It’s fairly clear when you describe the library like this that none of these roles are going away (nor should they), no matter what format our reading habits may move to. But these new formats will indeed change libraries — how they operate as well as how they look. As our books become digitized, there may be less need for row upon ofbookshelves. And as such, that’s a great opportunity for libraries to re-think how to use that space.
Words can't say how much this woman, my elementary school librarian, means to me. 
Includes slidecast: "Publisher of the Community: New Librarianship Unencumbered by Our Stacks" PLS President's Program at the NYLA 2011 Annual Conference. Saratoga Springs, NY. Abstract: Imagine libraries are places to learn and create, not consume and check out. |
“To prospective library school students I would say: Do not underestimate the service component of this profession. Don’t become a librarian because you love books. 
We've started off 2012 on an energizing and positive note at The Unquiet Library with two Skype interviews of experts related to architectural design. What is super cool is that both of these S... 
How do we improve learning? 
"It’s been a spell since I wrote for the project curve series, but not for lack of inspiration: my inaugural Fall semester at Claremont was an engaging blur of teaching, trying, making, and doing..." via @charbooth 
The Princeton Public Library in Princeton, NJ recently reached a milestone, and celebrated its 100th birthday this past October! This was a major event, in which local dignitaries joined in on th... 
"The library is a natural home for games and digital resources, although your institution might not yet have a program for managing them. Some universities have already established game libraries, as the Chronicle covered earlier this year, and outside of academia libraries have been considering the value of games—Scott Nicholson offered a roadmap for these efforts in Everyone Plays at the Library..." 
"A library is not the sum of its books. It’s a place in which people can access information. This increasingly includes programming, especially for teens and children. For many young people, the library is the only safe space they can go to after-school. Librarians are stepping up to the challenge to make the library a cool place as well. Teen librarianship is one of the fastest-growing segments of librarianship because the profession has recognized a need to more comprehensively serve this population..." via @librarybeth 
How do you invite a participatory culture in your library? For me, this is a term that is an embedded part of my philosophy. I strive to find ways for students to have multiple opportunities to... 
Love this idea from @eabarbanel 
"My question is: How can we remove the individual as a factor in whether the library position in a school is in jeopardy? You get a bad science teacher, you don't eliminate the science program. You get a poor reading teacher, you don't stop teaching kids to read. Tell me one position in the school - not guidance counselor, not PE teacher, not art teacher, not custodian, not vice-principal, not even tech director - that the person in the position is routinely eliminated by eliminating the position itself..." |
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