Week Nine Reflections

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In a posting from Jacquie Henry, from Macedon, NY she writes on Oct. 8^th about a video.  In this video, a poet reads a poem titled “I’ll Fight You for the Library.”  If you want to laugh out loud and see someone who enthusiastically appreciates the LMC and all that it provides I suggest you take a look at the video as well. The poem is written from the perspective of a teacher who becomes aggravated over being booted out of his spot at the library due to an administrative meeting.  It illustrates perfectly feelings that many of us have as educators and reminds us to “fight” for our library.

The post “If You Like…You Should Read…” on Oct 6^th from Susan Solo who teaches in Grass Lake, MI gave me some very useful links that I can pass on to my students.  The links are places students can go to help them figure out what to read next after they have read a good book.  I went to a couple of the links and they do a great job of providing similar authors and subjects areas that a student might be interested in after having read a “good book”.  I get students asking me frequently for book suggestions so these links can help to fulfill their requests.

 

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The blog entry titled “Research Pathfinder” from Unquiet Librarian on Oct 18^th struck my attention having just attempted to create my own pathfinder (not so successfully I might add).  I am really interested by this idea of a pathfinder but I am going to need a lot more training to be able to create one successfully.  I would love to involve students more on the web, especially to give them ideas for research.  We struggle with this piece so much at my school.  I will definitely be bringing this idea back to my LMS and see what she and I can come up with.

The Unquiet Librarian writes also on Oct 18^th about ‘My Response to “Where are the Others?”’ The original post in the whole mess had to do with an article from Johnson and Valenza that was basically encouraging LMS to take more action and become more Web 2.0.  It seems that some librarians took offense (of course) and the Unquiet Librarian was defending the original article.  All throughout this course, I have been studying ways to become more literate in the 21^st century.  I am constantly overwhelmed by it all but I do not doubt the importance of the subject.  I just can’t understand why any library media specialist would argue against these points.  Isn’t it obvious that we can all improve?  Aren’t we as librarians the heart of the life-long learners?