Tag Archives: management
Ann Arbor Book Festival Manga Mania-Ideas to Realization
The Ann Arbor Book Festival is a wonderful event full of numerous types of programming from writers’ workshops to a vendors’ fair and events for children. Since I first moved to Ann Arbor, I’ve heard of this festival but until … Continue reading
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Last Class Reflection-Librarians Always Educate
At the end of the semester, we looked back over what we’ve done and how it all connects. I think that this course, Professional Practice has been one of the most immediately useful of all my SI courses. Today at … Continue reading
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Reading Reflection-Constantly Learning
There wasn’t class last week so I didn’t have a class reflection. Instead I participated in a couple more webinars and found them all fascinating. This project really brought out the best in all of the groups. For this last … Continue reading
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Class Reflection-Digital Books and Embedded Librarians
Class this week started with a wonderful talk by Paul Courant, who helps to run the Michigan Library. His talk about how complicated the world of ebooks is was really good to hear and understand all the different players. I … Continue reading
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One Shot Workshop-Accessibility Links
1-We provide the highest level of service to all library users through appropriate and usefully organized resources; equitable service policies; equitable access; and accurate, unbiased, and courteous responses to all requests. ALA Code of Ethics ALA Recommendations: Talk with your … Continue reading
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Books Clubs and Socratic Seminars
All of the reading this week is about how to run book clubs and Socratic seminars. I’m curious to see what these articles say because one of the things that’s helped my parents get socially active in the community they … Continue reading
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My Summer-Internship at America Reads
I meant to write about America Reads here during the summer, but I never got into the habit. This is one of the dangers of various blogging spaces since SI provides one for the internship credit so I tended to … Continue reading
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Stretching Beyond My Limits
This has been a long and hard semester and its almost done. I feel like I’ve been stretched and pulled in a lot of unexpected and good ways, which I’m going to reflect on here. First though I want to … Continue reading
Looking Ahead
Reading the start of Woolls’ chapter, I was struck by her comment that librarians who work with young people aren’t always seen as being meant for leadership positions. I was wondering why this is since it seems from what we’ve … Continue reading
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Videos and the power of the right measurements
I can’t believe that we’re almost done with classes, but this last class was just a treat. We’ve been watching these various videos put together by either associations of school librarians or schools and so we had the chance to … Continue reading
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