IT’S THE MUSEUM DIRECTOR’S conundrum. She has six brief seconds to grab the visitor’s attention as they walk past each exhibit. Once they pass the exhibit, they’re gone for good. That thought went through my mind as I stood talking with a museum administrator at a stammtisch [“regular get-together”] in Berlin in March 2010. Could this brief window of opportunity be maximized by adding a social, participatory component to museum exhibitions?
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H.W. Wilson Foundation To Give $580K in Scholarship Grants to 58 Library Schools
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Library Science Without the Library | Backtalk
December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Jane Greenstein Librarian or Google employee? Library schools keep churning out graduates, but it’s the private sector that is laying out the welcome mat to MLIS graduates. Now library schools should become more aggressive about preparing students for positions outside the library. Why? Studies, including one conducted by Library Journal, point to the fact [...]
LIS Students: The New Connected Education | From the Bell Tower
December 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you follow Seth Godin’s blog, watch videos of his presentations or read his books, you know that he tends to have his finger on the pulse of the latest trends driving forward business, culture and society. You may also know that he encourages us to find our inner leader in order to advance our [...]
Martin B. Wolske | LJ Teaching Award 2011
November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Martin B. Wolske and his students do their learning and teaching with the people who live in marginalized and underserved communities. His students begin to understand how the use and application of technology reflect our society, and as Wolske puts it “what is encountered when you try to use that technology in communities already dismissed by that society.”
Lessons from Learning 2.0 | Office Hours
November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s been five years since Helene Blowers and the staff at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, NC, debuted Learning 2.0—a self-directed exploration of emerging technologies shared via a Creative Commons license. The program has been touted as transformational for libraries—a method of moving libraries forward into a future of 21st-century innovation. Blowers noted on her blog, [...]
Online LIS Education—or Not | Office Hours
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The Long Wait | LJ’s Placements & Salaries Survey 2011
October 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Stephanie L. Maatta “It’s tough out there!” echoed from Boston to Seattle and Minneapolis to Miami. For 2010 graduates, the past year presented challenges in finding professional jobs with adequate living wages; however, it also offered unexpected opportunities and sounded positive notes despite a battered economy. A total 1,789 LIS graduates responded to LJ’s [...]
Heed This Career Advice | Editorial
October 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A tough job market demands creativity and commitment The job picture painted in the latest LJ Placements & Salaries Survey of library and information school grads reflects the realities of an unyielding economy. “It’s tough out there!” grads across the country told Stephanie Maatta, who has written the survey since 2003. Her report mirrors what [...]
The Role of Mentoring | Office Hours
September 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Having a strong mentor during your first few years as a librarian can provide a safety net of advice, encouragement, and caution for a newly minted professional. Such a relationship would be even better if it began during LIS education. This would also serve to diminish the perceived divide between practice and library schools. In [...]
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