Our final discussion in this series is from Excerpt 8 — The Problem for Libraries in the Twenty-First Century: The Need to Accept a Paradigm Shift.
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Excerpt 8 — The Problem for Libraries in the Twenty-First Century: The Need to Accept a Paradigm Shift, Chapter 3 from the book After the Book: Information Services for the 21st Century, by George Stachokas
@dawnwoods2000 @micwag @Annie @Arlen Kimmelman @madvidgen (not sure why your name is not tagging properly) Thank you so much for joining in and making this a really interesting discussion. Please feel free to continue if you wish!
We will be talking about Dive Into Inquiry by Trevor Mackenzie in September. I will be posting the information up on the discussion page but wanted to give you a head start. Please read and join in again next time. Have a great summer!
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@Arlen Kimmelman I know what you mean! I sometimes feel people think I’m just showing off, when all I want to do is help them get the necessary info!!!
I do the same thing with our new teachers each year. Believe it or not, though, I often get pushback even for that one session that the new teachers or student teachers don't have the time to meet with me. :-(
Every little helps @Annie Maybe a move to educate teachers on using social media for learning might be a next step 😊
I did try this when I worked in a secondary school. It was mainly fiction we promoted but I did notice an increase in borrowing of those specific titles so it does work.
it irked me that the author used data from 1995 in a 2014 article (p.39) to justify a point. That felt as manipulative to me as using wthe 'absolute' words like "need," "must," and "loathe." I'd be more inclined to pursue some of the ideas in the article if it felt more like I was being challenged to be educated and less like I was being challenged to be coerced or less ignorant of my own field..
I loved the title "emerging technology librarian" as nuanced on page 38 of this reading. The responsibilities that come with that title, however, would require much support from the school's or district's administration, and not only financial support. It would also require professional development and shared planning time with curriculum coordinators, department chairs, and teachers.
10. Did this chapter change your attitude to your physical collection? If so how?
9. If you didn’t spend so much time cataloguing your physical collection what else could you be doing?
8. Budget is always going to be a problem! How can we gain access to online resources without it costing too much?
7. Do you feel that it is part of your role to help to track changes in technology, evaluate options for users, and teach users how to make the best possible use of new technology? If you do can you give an example of what you have done.
6. Do you think it is the librarian’s role to assist users with managing their personal information online and provide practical tips about appropriate and inappropriate uses of social media? How confident do you feel about doing this?
5. Should we, as school librarians, focus less on our collections and more on integrating sound research methods and best practices for managing different types of information or should/can we do both?
4. Stachokas suggests that one problem with modern librarianship is that librarians work in libraries. Do you find that most of your time is spent in your school library or do you get out into the classrooms? If you stay in your library what keeps you there?
3. “The library’s primary mission in developing the collection is to provide access to information, not necessarily to store or preserve that information”. How does this statement fit with your understanding of your school library?
2. “A professional identity based on books is the greatest problem” How do you feel about this statement?
1. How did you feel reading this chapter? Did you connect with it or did it make you feel uncomfortable?