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FlipYour Classroom Day
You’ll want to share this event and its resources with the classroom teachers you are helping to flip. On September 6, the Flipped Learning Network will host the first global Flip Your Classroom Day. To celebrate, the network encourages teachers everywhere to pledge to flip one lesson in the hope that the flipping experience will be a sticky one. [...]
I’m a librarian: that’s my j-o-b
We don’t read all day. Our hair’s not in a bun. We don’t all wear glasses. Don’t always says shush. We do love books. We’re the bosses at the Internet. We do provide the freedom to escape the room you’re sitting in. . . We’re on a quest to teach you how to find the [...]
Fall decorating: a round-up of smart (and free) posters
Every year, as we move back into our libraries and classrooms, we search for meaningful, inspiring, attractive visuals to fill our display cases, to grace our bulletin boards, to embed on our websites. Many of you have already experienced this, but if not, I must warn you of the dangers of searching Pinterest boards for [...]
Fair Use in Libraries: The Infographic
Fair use is the broad, flexible doctrine that will allow libraries to meet mission in the digital age. A new embeddable infographic, developed by the Association of Research Libraries and American University’s College of Law and School of Communication, with funding from the Mellon Foundation, illustrates how librarians navigate in a sea of copyrighted material, [...]
New tools for balancing and enhancing digital identities
Everything you do now ends up in your permanent record. The best plan is to overload Google with a long tail of good stuff and to always act as if you’re on Candid Camera, because you are. Seth Godin, Permanent Branding in the Age of Google I think a lot about the fact that so [...]
Promoting new titles with Pinterest (Check out Alida’s boards)
Here’s one Pinterest rabbit hole well worth falling through. I discovered Alida Hanson’s wonderfully comprehensive and attractive Pinterest boards promoting the new books and media at Weston High School (MA) Library, via a recent AASLForum discussion. When I asked Alida if she’d allow me to share her process for organizing those boards, she generously agreed. [...]
Orientation inspiration
You don't get a second chance to make a first impression. Joyce Valenza shares some creative ways to do a library orientation. (Zombies included.)
School Library Research Summarized (and newly updated)
(Note: I just realized that I created a draft of this post a few weeks back, but forgot to publish. Forgive me!) Deb Kachel, my colleague at the Mansfield SL&IT, just shared her latest revision of School Library Research Summarized. The revised booklet updates the work of Deb’s grad students in her Spring 2011 Advocacy [...]
Responding to Pew: The Myth and Reality of the Evolving Patron
At ALA I was honored to be invited by RUSA to respond to research presentation, The Myth and the Reality of the Evolving Patron. Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, shared the latest data relating to how Americans think about libraries and information, their use of library services, and what [...]
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