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Meditations on civility in the library
Reflection #1: Meditations on civility in the library While exploring Module 5 this week, I was drawn to Dixon’s (2017) article on facilitating community dialogues in the library. It percolated in my mind alongside Ashley West’s Assignment X on radical trust and some ongoing thoughts I have about community, civility, and conviviality. Now, bear in mind that I have just been diving into some Wendell Berry (if the nod to conviviality did not give it away), but also that I am taking this course alongside one on critical librarianship. So, I am currently preoccupied with notions of affection, obligation, ethics, and values. On the one hand, I am inspired by…
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Hi folks and welcome to my blog! My name is Rachel Syme and I am in my fifth (second-to-last) semester here at the iSchool. I currently work in a Cataloging, Acquisitions, and Metadata Librarian position, which will become official when I graduate in December. I have been in this role for a couple of years now and I learn more about the back-end of library work every day. Over the course of my career, I have worked in six different libraries in four states. So far, I’ve worked in two special libraries—a medical library and a news library (both in Maryland)—and four public libraries (two in Kentucky, one in California,…
