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Taking the Library to the People: Advocacy on Four Wheels and More!
This week’s module focused on hyperlinked communities and explored how these communities provide various avenues of connection and services for users at the library through the use of technology and advocacy strategies. Library advocacy is the process of supporting and promoting the value, services, funding, and role of a library within its community and in…
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Assignment X: Libraries are Made of People
A core concept that stood out to me from the fourth module titled “Participatory Service” in the course INFO 287: The Hyperlinked Library, was that libraries are made for people, not books. The core theme interwoven within librarianship is the significance of community. Libraries offer much more than books on a shelf and must offer…
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Emerging technologies and generations at the library, so much to chew on!
Growing up in the odd time between the ipod nano and smartphones really gives me a strange perspective on technology. I feel like I have watched it change over the course of my life so much. This reading resonated with me because it brings attention to how technology has evolved and changed and how people…
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Introduction to Me