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__Did you know that October 14 - 20 is National Teen Read Week? The theme this year is "LOL! @ Your Library."Teen Read Week™ is a national literacy initiative aimed at teens, their parents, librarians and educators. It is celebrated each year during the third week of October. Since 1998, Teen Read Week™ has encouraged teens to:Make time to read for the fun of it Use their local library to discover their interests Get reading materials and participate in events at their school or public library Teen Read Week™ is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest growing division of the American Library Association. For 50 years YALSA has been the world leader in selecting reading, listening and viewing for teens.For more information, visit the Teen Read Week Wiki.Don't forget we need friends! http://www.myspace.com/hhsmedia (Source: Huntingtown High School Library Media Center)
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Steven just remarked on the Educause training toolkit for information literacy that somehow missed the fact that libraries have been working on it for some time. D’oh! This presentation on an Annenberg School-sponsored media survey also struck me as a place where “library” as a source of information is noticeably absent. (So are books.) Admittedly, the focus is on how media can recapture people’s attention as a trusted source of information, and it’s really focused on “how do we get consumers to pay attention to our advertising so we can recover that revenue stream.” But still … the survey asked about where people turn to find trusted information. The library is not one of the options. (See especially slides 20 and 24.)
The survey focused entirely on sources of information that can be optimized for advertising dollars - and how to drive the public toward news media for purchasing decisions - so they may have just decided libraries don’t belong on the list. But when they ask about “where you go for information” and libraries aren’t there, it suggests value is only attached to information sources that exist to generate advertising dollars and stock dividends.
The study reports that people are increasingly skeptical about mass media and that “word of mouth” is more important than being told what to read through PR and marketing. In other words, you PR flaks have shot yourselves in the foot and are now trying to learn how to talk like a human.
Maybe our users need to get a little more outspoken. Libraries have net assets worth billions! You can claim your dividend every time you use them! You can use them online with no pay wall! And no harvesting of personal information or annoying banner ads!
I think we have an edge, here, if only we were able to get the word out. (Source: ACRLog)
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Purpose: Under immediate supervision, performs basic bibliographic, reference, readers' advisory, and program work, with an increasing acceptance of responsibility.
Essential Duties: Under supervision, Librarians I participate in a full range of librarian activities including reference service, community service, outreach, programming, basic collection development, readers' advisory service and a variety of related tasks. Emphasis is placed upon developing a comprehensive background in all phases of librarianship throughout the library system and will include children's, young adult, and/or adult services. A promotional program exists that provides qualified individuals with an opportunity to continue their development by assuming higher level responsibilities commensurate with their abilities and the needs of the system.
The Milwaukee Public Library is committed to providing the highest quality of service to internal and external customers. In meeting this commitment, employees are expected to be knowledgeable, competent, dependable and courteous in the performance of their job responsibilities, and to work cooperatively as part of a team.
Reasonable accommodations requested by qualified individuals with disabilities will be made in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.
Minimum Requirements:
1. Master's Degree in Library and Information Studies or equivalent from a library school accredited at the graduate level by the American Library Association (ALA). Proof must be shown at time of appointment.
NOTE: Applicants having current academic status as graduate students in such schools will be allowed to participate in this examination if they possess at least 24 credits in the MLIS program. Regardless of their position on the eligible list, candidates will not be certified and referred for interviews until after they have graduated.
Residence in the City of Milwaukee within six months of appointment and throughout employment. ...
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Next Saturday, from 10am-2pm PST, young adult authors Marc Aronson, Barry Lyga, and Carol Baldwin will be interacting as avatars with teens from all over the world on Teen Second Life. Exhibits put together with TeachingBooks.net will also be part of the festival. For more information on how to involve your teens, visit the Chicago Public Schools Dept. of Library and Information Services blog post.
Posted by Kelly Czarnecki (Source: YALSA)
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I *am* going to write about the library, though. Maybe that will count. The Ottawa Public Library Web presence is split in two: the libarary catalogu (Source: pligg - all)
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A nice tip from Greg Sheaf on the lis-infoliteracy discussion list for saving search histories (useful if you want students to present evidence of their searches, and/or analyse what they have done) Apparently if you use the Firefox browser the history is saved in a file called history.dat, which is stored in a "profiles" folder. Greg provides useful links: http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles#Profile_folder_locations and http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mozilla_history_view.htmlPhoto by Sheila Webber: my orchid has bloomed again! (Source: Information Literacy Weblog)
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Mishra, Champeswar and Maharana, Bulu (2007) A survey of digital information literacy of Faculty at Sambalpur University. Library Philosophy and Practice 9(2). (Source: E-LIS)
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The January issue of College & Research Libraries has a nice article up by Paul Waelchli. It is titled Librarians' sport of choice: Teaching information literacy through fantasy football. This is a great article and my congratulations to Paul for connecting these two important concepts (football and information literacy) so well. (And as an aside, I was fortunate to be in a librarian fantasy football league with Paul last fall. I came in third!)From the article:Librarians want students to effectively identify and evaluate information and make decisions based upon what they discover. These are just some of the skills that an information literate student successfully applies. These are the same skills that more than 19 million people use on a daily or weekly basis playing fantasy sports.1 As the NFL football season comes to a close, millions of Americans, some as young as 12 years old, have spent the past few months connected to information literacy. They just don’t know it.The challenge for librarians is to connect fantasy sports skills to information literacy and create building blocks for academic applications of the same concepts. One library, University of Dubuque, did just this by teaching fantasy football research to incoming student athletes. Through the lesson, students engaged in discussions of creditability, validity, timeliness, and search strategies to find and evaluate fantasy football information. The assessment of these instruction sessions showed incoming students successfully identifying evaluation criteria and reporting positive changes in how they viewed research and libraries. (Source: The Information Literacy Land of Confusion)
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Oversee development, implementation, and maintenance of all
computer systems in the library. Assist Director in
planning and implementing technology goals. Troubleshoot
problems with computer hardware and software. Serve as
principal liaison with Minuteman Library Network. Oversee
automated systems of business office and payroll. Work with
City IT department to link library computers to City IT
infranstructure. Train staff to use computer systems.
Provide computer literacy training for the public. (Source: MBLC Job Listings)
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The irony of it all: schools and educrats have been focusing on exams and test scores. What do the employers want the most? Graduates who can actually perform in the workplace. In other words, it's not just about a test score. It's about whether you can do what you claim you can do. That is the news in an article in USA Today by Mary Beth Marklein, "Employers Want New Way to Judge Graduates Beyond Tests, Grades."Part of the reason that I think about this is because I have a daughter in middle school now, in Texas, which is notorious for its testing. It seems like she is taking some exam, or some practice exam, or doing some drilling to prepare for an exam, every month or so. Good thing she is also a good reader and interested in other things like art, which we nurture at home. In essence, parents nowadays need to supplement what the schools do. Get your kids to read more. Expose them to new experiences. Take them to the museum, etc. After all, there have been a few reports recently on the decline of reading. I am looking at it in a practical way: those with the minimal skills won't be in the job market, so there will be less competition for the ones who can read, for the ones who can actually communicate and have good verbal and written skills, for the ones with good critical thinking abilities and good skills in information literacy.Having said that, business people are no angels either. This little article does not mean that we should be rushing to hand over the school curriculum to the business world. Far from it. But it should make us aware that we still need to do a lot to fix the educational system. (Source: The Itinerant Librarian)
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