In the article Diary of a Blog: Listening to Kids in an Elementary School Library by Janie Cowan (located in our class resources for the week), the author touches on the topic of site moderation and censorship. Discuss your thoughts on how you would run a blog through your own school library–specifically as it relates [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Syracuse iSchool’
11 Nov
5 Things I Thought I Knew But Didn’t
Now that I’m about halfway through my first full-time semester, there are a couple of thoughts I had about distance learning that I hadn’t considered before jumping in. None of them are things that would have changed my mind (and certainly not things that make life unbearable) but they are things that while I thought [...]
24 Jul
IST 511: Day 5 – Professional Communications and Poster Sessions
Aside from joining professional organizations, there is an incredible emount of thinking that goes along with how to promote yourself as a professional librarian. In this sense, I am glad that I took some to head out into the “real world” before deciding to continue with graduate school because I feel that it really prepared [...]
23 Jul
IST 511: Day 4 – Intellectual Freedom
Today’s guest speakers focused much of their lectures on how to use your library’s space. Tina Nabinger, Lesley Pease, and Jean Armour Polly all gave great examples on how to better use the space that you have to best connect with patrons and ensure that their experience of the library is both appealing and useful. [...]
22 Jul
IST 501 – Day 3: Library Systems Panal and Rare Books
Today we had many guests: Kellie Connor Bobbi Gwilt Deb Lewis Christina Pope Steve Weiter Each one had a position that required great knowledge of library systems and an even greater sense of patience. The speaker I found most interesting was Kelly Conner. She works for a vendor (often referred to as the “dark side”) [...]
21 Jul
IST 501: Day 2 – Copyright Law
Copyright law is a very good example of why I never wanted to be lawyer. This very simple idea (protecting work you’ve done so that others cannot plagarize) has become a very complex, living organism that seems to continually grow with each passing year. I do understand and agree very much with why copyright law [...]
20 Jul
IST 511 (Introduction to Library and Information Profession): Day 1
Well it seems they don’t refer to the Gateway courses as “Boot Camp” for nothing. Having barely relaxed after an intense 2 days in 601, I found myself sitting in 511 ready to discuss basic librarian and information science issues. One of the things I am very impressed with is that Syracuse offers an MSLIS [...]
19 Jul
IST 601 (Introduction to Information and Information Environments)
I have officially completed my first course (IST 601) so I suppose I’m officially in the process of completing my degree. Based on the assignments beforehand, I really had no idea what to expect from the course but all in all it was a very insightful 2 days. With a lot of emphasis on the [...]
17 Jul
Reader Response on Peer-Reviewed Article
In her article “The value of social software in school library instruction, communication and collaboration,” Summers uses examples of how real librarians use social software in the everyday functions of a school library. In doing so, she makes a compelling argument as to why schools should not shy away from using technology both with students [...]
17 Jul
Wikipedia Review: The Nightmare Before Christmas
While I do find Wikipedia helpful for a general overview of information, as a perfectionist I can’t bring myself to trust it as a reliable source of more detailed specifics even with a source list at the bottom of each entry. Part of the reason for this is the fact that anyone can edit or [...]
