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Hospitality in the Library
Librarians try puttin' on the Ritz [The Palm Beach Post] [Library Link of the Day]
I have a dear friend and mentor, Sandra Gamal, who was the first one to get me to really think about the library in terms of service and hospitality. We worked together in a large, K-12, international school library with a large staff. At one point we even asked a volunteer consultant from the business world to help us look at our operation, including our layout, signs, and general atmosphere, from a service perspective. The article above reminded me of that experience. After I had moved away, Sandra sent me the "Code of Service" that the library staff adopted and that included statements such as "We will welcome and assist each member of the CAC community in an inviting manner" and "We will give precedence to serving library patrons over accomplishing library technical tasks."
Thanks, Sandra!
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This is news?
LibrarianTeacher Partnership Key to Student Success. The Appoquinimink School District (DE) has begun promoting librarian-teacher collaboration to increase the academic performance of its students, taking a clue from numerous studies that demonstrate the benefits of such programs. Instead of students going to the library for small periods of time for library instruction, the schools' libraries will be open all the time, as classroom extensions, with lessons co-led by librarians and teachers. Despite the obvious benefits, there are issues with money, scheduling, staffing and implementing a new way. More information here from the News Journal Online. [LISNews.com]It seems so sad and frustrating to me that the ideas of teacher/librarian collaboration and flexible school library scheduling are still so novel to many people that they warrent a news article.
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Ethics in a Digital Age
The Winter 2004 issue of Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education includes an excellent article by Hilarie B.Davis that looks at plagiarism and cheating from the perspective of society and the learning community. The subtitle is "Beyond honor codes and punishment: Inspiring ethical behavior when it's so easy to cheat." I would love to have a discussion about the article with a group of teachers and/or students. It would make a great class session for a TOK or ITGS class. And it captures exactly what I've been thinking and reading about in terms of the changes in society impacting our teaching and learning.To determine what is blameworthy in the digital age, it seems to be time to change our lenses; to understand that individuals both reflect and invent their social interactions, and that our responsibility to "turn all our cards face up" does not change, even as the milieu does. The technologies we create cause us to reinvent ourselves. They create opportunities for rule-making as well as rule-breaking. And in a democracy, they provoke discussion about what we value. One would hope that as emerging technologies become ubiquitous, teachers and students will create policies, practices, and cultures to support a civil society in which we know how to "be digital" with freedom and integrity.
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© Copyright 2004 Deborah Wells-Clinton.
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