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Constructing knowledge as a function of human attitude and behavior.
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If libraries are to survive the 21st century, we have to decide what role we play in our communities. Are we going to be providers or educators? Providers focus on satisfying patron demands; educators focus on satisfying patron needs. Providers measure gate-counts; educators measure community impact. Providers want patrons to read; educators want them to read well. What Bivens-Tatum offers is a reminder that libraries aren’t just there to satisfy their communities…they are there to improve them, to educate them, to enlighten them. Via Trudy Raymakers Delete the scoop?
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Niel DePonte writes: While it is undeniable that there will be an increasing demand for skills in science, technology, engineering and math -- the STEM skills -- students who excel in the skills of creativity and innovation, and who evidence a... Delete the scoop?
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In a democracy, where we share effort and responsibility for making our society work, a discipline like the arts that connects people and ideas is a vital point of education. Delete the scoop?
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Celina Carter can’t hear herself think in libraries. “The quietness, hearing clicking, chewing, coughing, typing, it irritates me,” she says. She prefers working in a coffee shop. “I look out the window for inspiration,” she says. Via Trudy Raymakers Delete the scoop?
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What made you want to become a librarian and what did you do your undergrad degree in? what can you say to other prospective library school students? Delete the scoop?
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AN OPEN letter to culture minister Ed Vaizey hitting out at his role in the controversial changes to Gloucestershire’s library service has been signed by more than 450 people. Delete the scoop?
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Several publishers have barred libraries from buying their e-books, saying that allowing unlimited e-reading isn’t a sustainable business model. But one publisher is trying a different approach. Delete the scoop?
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"The iPad is not intended as a 'sit still and learn' device. Superintendent Tom Morrell has instructed staff to 'find the apps that get them dancing, singing and playing.'" Delete the scoop?
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"Have you ever noticed how ridiculous many of the poses seen in fashion and glamor photographs are? Artist Yolanda Dominguez has a project called Poses highlighting how absurd and artificial the poses are..." Delete the scoop?
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"The question 'How do you define "information"?' is one that gives me the willies." Delete the scoop?
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The problem, of course, is how to know when you’ve stumbled upon something potentially useful. How does your brain know that there is a possible solution out there? How did that possible solution even get there to begin with? Delete the scoop?
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There’s something I call the polymath paradox. Polymaths, renaissance people--we don’t train them well in school; they’re supposed to pick a major and drill down. We don’t hire them well, we mold them pretty quickly, and we don’t promote them well on a grand scale. And yet when you start listening to what’s happening in the world, you see that the ability to move from one type of conversation to the next, to cross between disciplines to get insights, is an increasingly important skill. Via Connor Turland Delete the scoop?
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Some thoughts about how important it is that librarians participate actively in the shaping of the new cloud-computing platforms which are are emerging from a number of organizations. The main reason for participation as librarians is simply this: to ensure the value of librarianship is contained within, and amplified by new technological foundations. Via Trudy Raymakers Delete the scoop?
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Humans are relational beings with their modeled behavior as practical examples of cultural routines that they hear, see, read, and assemble on their own from communal pieces of information to answer the needs of their everyday lives ..... Delete the scoop?
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Canon is taking its digital imaging expertise into the world of high-tech headgear and its capable of merging our physical world with the virtual one. Delete the scoop?
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The concept of an “e-book” is a strange one. Just consider the idea of pages on a screen--is that metaphor really the best way for us to explore written content? And do e-books still need to books at all? Via Jason Epstein Delete the scoop?
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We all have parts of our lives we want to capture and pass along, but how will we do that? Delete the scoop?
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"What all these articles have in common is that I’d have never found on them on the web because I wouldn’t have searched for them, as I didn’t know they existed." Delete the scoop?
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A nonprofit research center that specializes in long-term forecasting recently released a report detailing the 10 key skills that will be relevant to the workforce of the future. What are they, and are our schools doing enough to instill them? Via Connor Turland Delete the scoop?
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"While a cure still eludes researchers, several protease inhibitors have been developed to slow its progress. But last week, HIV/AIDS research took a huge leap forward, thanks to the work of gamers." Delete the scoop?
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Where do good ideas come from? Not as we like to think, with a sudden flash of genius, says writer Steven Johnson. Delete the scoop?
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