Faith Lane Books

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Author: Faith Lane

  • Food Insecurity on the Schoodic Peninsula: What Can We Do?

    In 2016 I was invited to participate as a judge for a local youth speech competition. There were three judges on the panel. The topic was Hunger in America. I suspect my fellow judges thought, as I did, that we would hear speeches with statistics about the United States as a whole. We were surprised.…

  • She Persisted

    The process has begun. GPA back on track. Graduate Candidacy approved. Portfolio architecture built and approved. Structural “theme” for entire portfolio selected and outlined. Most classwork and some evidence from Dorcas Library projects already loaded as evidence. What’s next? Introduction & Conclusion essays for entire portfolio Essays for each of fifteen competencies Finalize selection and…

  • Review & Reflection

    With only two classes remaining, I decided to build my portfolio during this mid-winter break. What a journey of re-discovery to begin at the beginning again! I am stunned to see how my preliminary thoughts about librarianship have evolved, taken root, and taken flight. Intuitions about the future of librarianship were whispered shyly in 2015,…

  • New Tricks….

    Ha ha ha. Such is my glee at learning how to export and import WordPress pages.  

  • Director’s Brief: The Rural Library as Economic Development Center

    When the local economy fails, libraries fail. When libraries facilitate conversations about economic development, everyone in the community has an opportunity to speak up, to learn, and to create an economically sustainable community based upon local, shared, values. Libraries provide a neutral space for fostering community-wide conversations about shared values, local resources and knowledge bases, to…

  • Reflection #5: Thoughts on Infinite Learning, Libraries as Classrooms, & Librarians as Teachers

    I. in infancy we are fearless learning machines playful fluid learning minds ever curious ever seeking ever growing   with fertile ground and nurturing we grow and thrive   in hard-packed soil with hard-boiled souls we learn to survive   in either case as we age, we slow ‘til we assume we know all there…

  • On Sideways Thinking, Messiness & Librarianship: Context Book Review

    Book I  Think Sideways: a game-changing playbook for disruptive thinking This gem of a little book teaches people how to undo years of societal training. All those things we learned in school: color inside the lines; follow directions; do what the others do; don’t show our feelings; learn to conform. Kleinberg’s premise is that those…

  • A Favorite Quotation

    “The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see…

  • First Day Reflections

    Before I could name this blog, I needed to set my intention for learning during this course/this semester. My personal mission is to create and/or facilitate experiences, which rekindle joy, spark imagination, inspire interest, and generate new human knowledge. Pretty big mission. Our tiny, rural, library is stepping up to create a new library space,…

  • Everything is Miscellaneous: Implications for Family Historians

    To begin with, all experienced genealogists would agree that, at least in family history, everything is miscellaneous. In what other field does one start by digging through Grandma’s attic and Grandpa’s garage looking for… well, for artifacts and records to prove that Grandma and Grandpa existed? How does information pass from one generation to the…