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Author Archives: Michael Stephens
Blogging Off to an Excellent Start!
Hello! I read all the blog posts in my Feedly! Thanks for all of your insights and candor in your reflections! I commented on everyone’s work. If you did not get a comment from me, please comment below. Looking forward to more of your writing! Note – I approved a lot of comments in your […]
Research Article: Student Use of Mobile Devices
Hey all – Honored to do research in 2021 with Lecturer Emeritus Debbie Faires and SJSU School of Information graduate Nikki Rudiger. This was published in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 2021 Vol. 62, No. 4 DOI: 10.3138/jelis-62-4-2020-0093. Take a look if interested. I am fascinated by what we called the Student […]
New Planning Article added to this Week’s Module
Hey all – Just added this to the Planning module: Working Hand in Hand One of the clearest models for how to conduct community-led planning in libraries comes from the Working Together Project, an initiative that created the Community-Led Libraries Toolkit. The model has five broad stages: (1) systematically build knowledge about community through community […]
Another #hyperlib Job Description?
Take a look at this job listing a colleague sent me a couple of years ago. Very interesting mix of duties and requirements. You’ll see some things here that you are doing in this class! 🙂 Bolding is mine. Announcement: The University of Texas at Arlington Library invites applications from highly motivated, innovative, forward thinking professionals […]
Welcome to Module 7: Planning for Participatory Services
Greetings all! For this module we will focus on planning for emerging technologies, participatory services of all kinds and the future. This is where we start to get very practical and focused on what’s happening with trends and technology in libraries and information centers. This is also the time to start thinking about the technologies, […]
Inspiration: Kindness Machine! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
From last year – This was brand new to me and I love it! https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cj21-AsgWJF/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D
From Twitter – Idaho Libraries
From last spring — This fellow from ILA is amazing: Everybody needs to check out @lancemcgrath, President of the Idaho Library Association, testifying against HB 139. Wait for the absolute clap back he gave Rep. Ehardt, at the end. pic.twitter.com/4g64ZeREwe — Socialistlyawkward (@socialistlyakwd) March 1, 2023
Fluid Dates
Hey all – I have heard from some of you that there’s just so much going on in personal life as well as in the world. (here too) I would like to propose we have FLUID DUE DATES for the rest of the semester. That means work on things as you can with out the […]