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Tag: future librarianship
Dewey or Don’t We?
This is a standard joke in libraries…. True confession time, friends. I have always hated the Dewey Decimal system. I’m sure it was wonderful in 1876. And it is certainly better than stacks of unsorted books in random piles around the library. But, as a young child and as an adult, I learned to simply…
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…