Going into this sub-module, I expected “professional learning experiences” to mean the usual subjects: conferences, webinars, something I might bookmark and finish if I was interested in it but potentially never finish. What stuck with me from this module was that instead it highlighted the quieter side. The realization that […]
Reflection Blogging
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While reviewing module 10 my mind kept circling back to one idea: Erik Boekesteijn’s mantra, quoted by Michael Stephens, that libraries should keep stories, share stories, and make stories. Reading the documents from module 10, I started to think about the actual framework for the work, so I want to […]
Going over this module put two ideas next to each other that I had not thought to pair before: “social infrastructure” and hygge as a service philosophy. Read separately, one feels architectural and the other feels emotional. Reading them together however, they started to feel like the same argument told […]
I started exploring module 6: Hyperlinked Environments expecting a straightforward piece on museum tech, and came out pondering which kind of visitor I actually am. The reading that stuck with me was Eduardo Araujo Oliveira and Paula de Barba’s “How does learning happen in museums?”, where University of Melbourne researchers […]
The Archive at the Edge of the Network On digital equity, the discomfort of balance, and what special collections owe to the communities that made them. Digital equity and community networks felt, at first glance, like the domain of public librarianship. Important and urgent work, but not quite park of […]