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Innovation Roadmap: The Armchair Traveller’s Book Club
The Armchair Traveller’s Book Club
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I Can Do Anything! : Hyperlinked Communities
I am here because of Lavar Burton. I mean, no, not really. But yes, really, kind of? A lot of us of a certain age are here because of Lavar Burton, and his seminal show, Reading Rainbow. I mean, I was a child of the 80s! Lavar Burton and his friends made reading COOL. There were kids that looked like ME. I did not grow up in a community with many Hapa kids, I was generally the only one. It never felt problematic when I was really young, but no place is perfect and, like so many of us, I definitely was on the receiving end of multiple unkindnesses. Reading…
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Mind the Gap: Academic Libraries and Food Insecurity (Hyperlinked Environments)
While reading the suggested article about Carroll University’s food share program, I was struck by the idea of turning an academic library into a place where students could turn to reduce hunger in their communities. Harkening back to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, food accessibility in libraries lay the foundation for the success of the whole person and addresses one of the most fundamental needs of personhood. Food insecurity is a severe national problem, and college students make up a large segment of those who are being left behind. Between the high cost of tuition, supplies, books, housing, and food, as well as the added mental load of stepping out on…
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Assignment X: Let There be Light
Library, noun. 1. A place set apart to contain books for reading, study, or reference. (Not applied, e.g. to the shop or warehouse of a bookseller.) In various applications more or less specific. 1.a. c.1374– Applied to a room in a house, etc.; also, †a bookcase. In modern use, the designation of one of the set of rooms ordinarily belonging to an English house above a certain level of size and pretension. 1.b. c.1449–A building, room, or set of rooms, containing a collection of books for the use of the public or of some particular portion of it, or of the members of some society or the like; a…
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Hello, #hyperlib !
Hi everyone! My name is Mei and I am excited to be working with you all on the Hyperlinked Library. I currently live in Denver, and have for about four years. This is my third semester at SJSU, so we’re getting closer! I intern at the Helen Fowler Library at the Denver Botanic Gardens, working with their archives department, and I also moonlight with their catalogers when they need extra help. Before this, I worked for many years as a pastry chef, and before that I taught high school French. I have both a BA and an MA in French literature, so looking back, the circuitous path is all in…