Just when I thought I couldn’t love libraries more, along comes INF287 Hyperlinked Libraries and I realize that I have only scratched the surface of what is possible. Some of the course content was familiar to me, but much was not. However, the flow of the course and how the […]
Heather B
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This photo of Dokk1 at night radiates the core feeling of my inspiration report: joy and happiness. Can we reliably replicate such a highly personal quality? What can we learn from the happiest countries on the planet? The Pursuit of Happiness: What can we learn from global innovations? (Google Drive […]
When this module appeared in the list, the title immediately brought artificial intelligence (AI) to mind because it’s the first tool humankind has encountered that can offer comparable capacity for infinite learning. This idea colored my exploration of the module’s materials, and sparked additional lines of thinking. So this post […]
A librarian finds room on the shelf for everyone’s stories. Here in Michigan many people are thinking back to November 10, 1975, when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a storm on Lake Superior. Even if you’re never been to Michigan you might heard the song by Gordon Lightfoot that’s […]
These two modules are very interesting to me, especially in context of the immediate social environment. Everyone, including library staff, is under a great deal of psychological stress – for many reasons. At our library we have an increasing number of behavioral incidents of a more violent nature, which in […]
Although we have shockingly poor literacy levels in our state, as we look toward 2026 I can think of no bigger concern than the pending election year and 250 anniversary. This combination of factors sets up conditions for a perfect storm of misinformation and disinformation, which could have permanent ramifications […]
Image of immersive story experience created with Canva AI. For the Choose Your Own Adventure module I selected Global Libraries as my focus. While I was inspired by many beautiful libraries around the world, and wondered how long it would take to learn Finnish, I kept returning to one audacious […]
Perhaps another iteration of the Kindness Machine? I created this board a few years ago for a Pride event. It’s so popular we’ve used it multiple times since, and it will be going out again this weekend to a Pride event. It’s very simple, but it does give people to […]
“Communities are human systems given form by conversations that build relatedness” (Stephens, 2025) This statement, from the Module 5 readings, really caught my attention. On my initial read, it felt like a nice, cozy definition of how communities happen and function. But after some time to ponder it, over the […]
We don’t often hear the library world talk about being disrupters. It’s the antithesis of the order and structure we crave to bring to all manner of things. However, we can’t allow this part of ourselves to work against us! In response to Assignment X, and as I try to […]