“I find it important to regularly remind myself that frustration leads to insights and that learning is not necessarily the equivalent of mastery.” —Joshua Block, Embracing Messy Learning I don’t know if there is a way for me to separate the three submodules of infinite learning. It’s all interconnected. Firstly, libraries are here for the purpose of helping the people reach their full potential. After all, according to Michael Stephens, “One of [the] intrinsic values is that of library as the “people’s university” – an open education resource or commons – or center for lifelong learning.” And in order to live up to that, we have to reach people in…

“libraries should keep stories, share stories, and make stories.” —Erik Boekesteijn, Doklab consultant and senior advisor to the National Library of The Netherlands* As I was preparing to write this post, I had a book calling to me. I was through the first two thirds of it and things were starting to ramp up toward the satisfying conclusion I knew was coming. Libraries are known for providing access to that kind of story. It’s one of the reasons that they are so popular with avid readers. But what about the rest of the community? There is so much more to what libraries have to offer and so much more that…

“How might we use hygge as a means to integrate the life of the community into the library?” Michael Stephens, Wholehearted Librarianship We seem to live in a very tech forward society. So I feel like I should be writing about some exciting tech innovations in the library. The thing is, I keep coming back to the feeling of the place. I’ve been told recently that just because people like the idea of libraries, it doesn’t mean they are willing to go to bat for them. In this module we are exploring new library models because it’s clear that while our old model is okay, it’s not inspiring enough to…