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Archive for May, 2009

There’s a few things that I look forward to each month– Fridays, pay-days, and getting my new Wired magazine.  At the risk of sounding like a commercial, if you’re a librarian– you should be reading Wired.  This month’s issue is full of articles relevant to our field, including a piece entitled Googlenomics (explaining just how [...]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about Scott Bennett’s article, Libraries and Learning: A History of Paradigm Change (Portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 9. no.2, 2009), in which Bennett discusses the library’s shift from a reader-centered paradigm to a learning centered-paradigm.  In this Monday’s  New York Times (May 25, 2009, p. A14), an editorial was [...]

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If you haven’t checked it out yet, I’d encourage you all to read “Libraries and Learning: A History of Paradigm Change” by Scott Bennett (Portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 9, No. (2009), pp.181-197).  Bennett discusses the shift from reader-centered to learning-centered paradigms in libraries.  He challanges librarians to stop thinking of themselves as only [...]

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