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Category: Librarianship
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.…
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,…
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…
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,…
Finding the Flow
write coaching email for genealogy club members crunch numbers for upcoming board meeting moderate volunteer luncheon & training send a personal thank you note to a generous sponsor flyers, flyers, flyers book selection committee meet with board president sprinkle generously with training moments spice with shared laughter add just about two miles of walking inside…
Begin (Again) at the Beginning
Why the Zen of Information Science? At age 50, I was diagnosed as being severely ADHD. For me, this was not the discovery of a dis-ease as much as it was confirmation about the unique ways that my brain processes information. I do not subscribe to the notion of ADHD as a “disability” or “disorder.” …