Adventures in the Linkbrary

The concept of Narrative Inquiry really stood out to me in this module as a way to engage with the community, or even our colleagues, and make them feel heard and understood. Asking someone “When was the last time you felt really happy?” can tell you so much more about a person and what their […]

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New Models for Serving the Underserved One article that stood out to me in the New Models module was about Berkeley Public Library providing an Easy Access Card to residents of California who are unhoused or have no permanent address (Rees, 2018). The article was written a few years ago, but it appears that the […]

Hyperlinked Environments: Museums and Archives Something that caught my attention in the Hyperlinked Environments module was Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technology, specifically as used in museum and archival spaces. Charr (2020) presented a hopeful article on museums utilizing different forms of technology to bring more people to those spaces, both physically and […]

Hyperlinked Communities: Exploring Possibilities To pull a thought from an earlier post, if it is true that libraries are everchanging entities, it must also be true that the wants and needs of the people that use them are constantly evolving. The hyperlinked communities module made me reflect on this thought and look back at the […]

For this post, I wanted to discuss foundations and the concept of Library 2.0 in the context of public libraries, primarily in the sense that public libraries are ever-changing spaces, and that this constant evolution really is the whole point of library services. Something I found interesting is that in both Buckland’s 1992 text, Redesigning […]

Hi everyone! My name is Mollie and I am located on the East Coast in tiny Delaware! I have been working in public libraries for 11 years now and am currently working as a Reference Assistant in Adult Services. I started my library adventures working as a Page during my undergrad years while I was […]