Wanna learn about the FUTURE?! ALA is hosting an invitational Summit, Libraries From Now On: Imagining the Future, May 2 and 3 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. You can read more about the Summit here: http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/04/american-library-association-host-invitational-summit If you’d like to follow the discussions, you may do so via Twitter at #libfuturesummit.
Great reading for those of you done with classes, and something to look forward to for those of you still struggling along (I know I am!). Features include: Profiling a Book Collection Julia B. Chambers Leadership in the Online Environment Elaine Hall I Know Nothing about Robotics: How to Run a Robotics Program on a Small Budget with Zero Experience…
Profiling a Book Collection by Julia B. Chambers Last fall, I was hired to be the middle school librarian at an independent middle school in Danville, California. One of the many orientation meetings I attended involved the theme of equity and inclusion in the classroom. All new hires were asked to choose one aspect of our curriculum that could be…
Leadership in the Online Environment by Elaine Hall “The timeless challenge of leadership is to bring together a group of diverse individuals and create an environment where they will work together effectively toward common, shared goals” (Quigley, 2013, p. 28). The mission of our student organizations here at SJSU’s School of Library and Information Science is to focus on…
I Know Nothing about Robotics: How to Run a Robotics Program on a Small Budget with Zero Experience by Rachel Shaw I know nothing about robotics. I take that back. I know a few things about robotics, mostly because I teach a robotics class. Like everyone else, I was perpetually warned about the state of the job market. I was…