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Tag Archives: atlas

you know you’re in LIS . . .

By Arden Kirkland | October 23, 2012 - 10:43 am |October 23, 2014 librarianship, SU iSchool
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On my commute to work, I pass several different institutions that are (or used to be) convents or monasteries or seminaries, nestled in along the Hudson River. There’s also an episcopal church that has one of those lettered signs out … Continue reading →

Tagged atlas, data, information, knowledge, librarianship, library school, wisdom

identity crisis

By Arden Kirkland | August 10, 2012 - 10:11 pm |August 10, 2012 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 |August 10, 2012 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 |August 10, 2012 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 |August 10, 2012 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 |August 10, 2012 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 |August 10, 2012 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 |August 10, 2012 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
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