The Library As A Classroom For Library Staff

The Library As A Classroom For Library Staff A new kind of learning environment.   Tl;dr: Using the Creative Classrooms Research model to create professional development opportunities for part-time, frontline library staff with extremely limited time available for upskilling. Introduction Recently I have presented at two virtual events – Library 2.016 and LARK (Library Applied Research Kollektive). I spoke…

Why Do We Do It?

This is the second post on The Atlas of New Librarianship webinar held on 20 September 2012. In the first post I wrote about the need to distinguish libraries from librarians. Anyone who knows me well will know that I ask a lot of questions about everything. I ask questions because I want to understand….

Libraries and Librarians

Last week David Lankes hosted a webinar for New Zealand librarians who had registered for The Atlas of New Librarianship discussion groups. David’s presentation contained so many gems that it’s going to take me a long while to unpack, polish and share them with others. But I am working on it; and here is the…