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Category Archives: IST511

capturing the conversation

  By Arden Kirkland | August 10, 2012 - 10:35 pm | Digital Collections, Education, IST511, SU iSchool
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As a part of librarian bootcamp, we had a field trip to visit Special Collections at SU, and to “oo” and “ah” over some amazing artifacts. One of my classmates asked if any of the objects had been digitized, and … Continue reading →

Tagged artifacts, Digital Collections, digitization, special collections, video

identity crisis

  By Arden Kirkland | August 10, 2012 - 10:11 pm | IST511, SU iSchool
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So, yes, the librarians come last. The thread on “Librarians” in The Atlas of New Librarianship, that is. While writing these posts, it has been very hard to divide these ideas into separate threads, they are so deeply woven together … Continue reading →

Tagged atlas, librarianship, library school, mlis

making better decisions

  By Arden Kirkland | August 10, 2012 - 10:03 pm | IST511, SU iSchool
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The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities (Lankes, 2011) It is significant that “improve society” is at the beginning of this mission statement, not at the end – chronologically it should be at … Continue reading →

Tagged atlas, decisions, learning, librarianship, satisficing, teaching

of the people

  By Arden Kirkland | August 10, 2012 - 9:56 pm | IST511, SU iSchool
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While I was on campus at SU for my week’s residency with IST511, I worked on a group project on the subject of embedded librarians. This had me thinking night and day about community. Several times in The Atlas of … Continue reading →

Tagged atlas, community, digital, embedded

asking the right questions

  By Arden Kirkland | August 10, 2012 - 9:29 pm | Education, IST511, SU iSchool
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I’ve been facilitating knowledge creation in my community for a while now – as a college level instructor. At a quick glance, the mission for new librarians expressed by Lankes in his book The Atlas of New Librarianship seems like … Continue reading →

Tagged atlas, education, learning, librarianship, questions, teaching

the surprise is where the learning happens

  By Arden Kirkland | August 10, 2012 - 9:20 pm | IST511, SU iSchool
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A-ha. You know what I mean. You’ve had that moment when something broke through your thick skull. Sometimes it arrives there because someone’s hammered it through, repeating the same thing over and over. But when it’s been hammered through, it … Continue reading →

Tagged atlas, conversation, language, learning, multi-disciplinarity, surprise

on a mission

  By Arden Kirkland | August 10, 2012 - 9:08 pm | IST511, SU iSchool
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The “Mission” thread in The Atlas of New Librarianship by David Lankes (2011) has me thinking about my ongoing process to define my personal mission. I guess I would say that my mission has broadened in recent years, but I’m surprised how … Continue reading →

Tagged artifacts, atlas, digitization, learning, material culture, mission, teaching

hello, superheroes

  By Arden Kirkland | August 10, 2012 - 8:56 pm | IST511, SU iSchool
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Librarian boot camp (at the Syracuse University iSchool, where I’m pursuing my MLIS) began with a meeting of the information league – a gathering of a wide range of information superheroes, meeting for the first time to begin a mission … Continue reading →

Tagged atlas, mission, superheroes

warning: librarianship ahead

  By Arden Kirkland | August 10, 2012 - 8:13 pm | IST511, SU iSchool
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Consider this your warning! I’m getting ready to publish several posts reflecting on my first official week as a new librarian. I was just up at Syracuse University for librarian bootcamp – a week in residence to kick off my … Continue reading →

Tagged librarianship, library school

the generosity of social media

  By Arden Kirkland | August 9, 2012 - 11:31 pm | IST511, SU iSchool
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Let me start by saying I might not be going back to school if it weren’t for social media. My online networks have provided such transparency of knowledge, such generosity on the part of the amazing people in my network, … Continue reading →

Tagged epiphany, forums, generosity, social media, transparency, twitter, web 2.0
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