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Cathy Oxley

Flip This Library: School Libraries Need a Revolution - 11/1/2008 - School Library Journal - 0 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 19 Nov 09 - Snapshot

  • We’ve created and invested in library media centers—and, in recent years, their Web sites—with the expectation that our students will come to these places.


    Sorry folks, but the old paradigm is broken. It’s time to become part of the Google generation. If we polled our students, we’d probably discover that they’re busy searching online, and maybe IMing or texting each other. Our school libraries and Web sites are the last things on most kids’ minds. At some point, we have to admit that our creations have become irrelevant to today’s students. There isn’t time for business as usual.

  • We don’t need a revision. We need a reinvention.
  • If we want to connect with the latest generation of learners and teachers, we have to totally redesign the library from the vantage point of our users—our thinking has to do a 180-degree flip.
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  • What we’re proposing is bold. Gone are the days when we can afford to exist on the periphery. The new learning commons is at the very center of teaching and learning. No longer will the library be something that students and teachers need to remember to come to—instead it will be integrated into their lives. Finally, the library will become the hub of teaching and learning—a place that everyone owns and contributes to—one giant conversation that’s both a social and a learning network.


    Face it, folks. We’re at a crossroads. Doing nothing, trying to shore up the status quo, or attempting to resuscitate a dead model aren’t feasible choices. It’s like mom saying, “Either eat your spinach or go to bed.” We may not like it, but let’s start eating.

Alison Hall

SBDS Prototype 0.1 - 0 views

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shared by Alison Hall on 27 May 09 - Snapshot
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    Alison Hall on 27 May 09
     
    SBDS will be a new discovery service focussed on Australia, Australians, and items found in Australian collecting institutions. It will provide a single point of access to resources currently discoverable via the Library's multiple discovery services, and to digitised material freely available online anywhere in the world.
Mansel Wells

Whichbook - 0 views

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shared by Mansel Wells on 27 Dec 08 - Snapshot
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    Mansel Wells on 29 Dec 08
     
    Whichbook gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood. Instead of starting from the overwhelming choice of books available, whichbook starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of that elusive 'good read' we are all looking for but don't quite know how to define.

    The standard way of organising books for choice, on shelves in a library or a bookshop, or on the web, starts from the products available - the authors, titles, publishers or genres. Whichbook enables the choice of book to start from the individual reader and what they are looking for.
Mansel Wells

NYPL, Digital Collections - 0 views

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shared by Mansel Wells on 15 May 08 - Snapshot
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    Mansel Wells on 15 May 08
     
    Access using a NY library card. This site enables connection to Tumblebooks.com where there is animated talking picture books.
Mansel Wells

Librarians' Internet Index - 0 views

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shared by Mansel Wells on 20 May 08 - Snapshot
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    Mansel Wells on 20 May 08
     
    Search and browse this website for the best of the Web. It contains over 20,000 entries, maintained by librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics. You can also subscribe to a weekly newsletter which features dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by a team of librarians. Topics include current events and issues, holidays and seasons, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more.
Mansel Wells

Webinar: Using a wiki for Libraries - 0 views

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shared by Mansel Wells on 30 Apr 08 - No snapshot
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    Mansel Wells on 30 Apr 08
     
    This is a video of a presentation illustrating various ways a wiki can be used in public and school libraries.
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