Greetings! This week’s module explores the work LIS professionals are doing all over the world implementing services and spaces designed for their communities. Some seek to engage users via programming and other means of connection to the institution.
Action Items:
- The Research paper is now due May 13th by 11:59 pm PT. Please plan your writing time accordingly for the due date. This is to be your most polished, scholarly, and effective writing of the semester.
- Review the helper on academic writing. There are a lot of links to help you!
Upcoming Blog Report Due Dates: (See assignment page for full descriptors.)
- Blog Post #6: Report on the issues your community may face on an international scale. DUE: by 5/13
- Blog Post #7: Report on your community’s use of emerging technologies. DUE: by 5/13
- Blog Post #8: Personal reflection on information communities. DUE: 5/13
Ongoing Throughout Semester: Commenting, Engagement and Participation
Grading Reminder:
Grading will be based on 100 possible points.
- All assignments are due on Sundays (except the Research Paper, which is due on a Friday) and must be turned in by 11:59 p.m. PT
- Late submissions will be reduced by 20% of the total points possible for that assignment.
- If life circumstances require students to request an extension, please do so several days before the assignment is due or as soon as possible.
- Communication and interaction throughout the semester via the course site is expected and required.
Featured Image: New Zealand pasture
Hi, I just want to share that I so appreciate the required reading of “The Library is the Hummingbird.” I’m sharing it with my staff, who last year voted on a team mascot to represent our library and its employees and they selected the hummingbird! We are considered the busy branch in our district and our patrons have a high level of unique needs that the more suburban branches don’t quite see to the same level. The team wanted to go with a bird mascot to signify migration, which is a shared experience for many of our immigrant patrons and staff, and the hummingbird specifically is because of its many iridescent colors to represent diversity and its fast little wings to represent the quick flitting nature of our work moving between addressing different needs. The legend of the hummingbird in the article and the examples of small actions libraries take to change lives was a perfectly timed little motivator for my team, so thank you!
@agroves That is absolutely wonderful. I am so glad the piece resonated and that you shared!