Blog U.: Thoughts on DIY U – Confessions of a Community College Dean – Inside Higher Ed.

The above link is a interesting critique of the Edu-Punk movement. Worth a read. This movement is of interest to me as the idea of Edu-Punk  makes libraries an obvious arena where this type of self-directed learning can occur. Remember the seemingly forgotten phrase that the library is the “People’s University”?

If you are not familiar with the Edu-Punk movement check it out here.

As an aside, I learned two new words from the post: eleemosynary (charity) and crazymaking (kind of self explanatory).  Is that DIY learning or what?

From: www.L1BRAR1An.com … of course

Tags: education, learning, libraries, punk, technology, Web2.0/Library2.0

From: www.librarian.com… of course! (re-posting this to see that crazy ad gets out my html)

As I have decided not to take classes this summer I hopefully will have a lot more free time in the upcoming months to undertake  more “me-development”.  I am planning on doing a whole bucketful of reading and writing. I am aiming for 10,000 pages of reading and a 100 page of writing both personal and professional.  I can’t figure out if these numbers are low or high but it will be something to shoot for.  With that 100 page writing goal in mind, I hope to write more on this blog and count it towards that.

As an aside, I was trying to think of my favorite place to read and well… I couldn’t really come up with one. Typically with the classes I am taking I just plan to get the course reading done where ever and whenever since there were deadlines to be met. But with this new free time to read more I need to figure out where my reading place is… a place that has a little more comfort and good vibes to it.  So perhaps this summer I should explore different places to discover where is the best place to get my reading done. I probably also figure out where I like to write too… I wonder if they will be the same place?

What is your favorite reading/writing place… and why?

Leave a comment and let me know.

Tags: reading, writing

Since this a blog about me, I mind as well start publicizing my accomplishments (as if I haven’t already). So with that mind,  I have recently had an article published in Library Student Journal. But you might be saying to yourself, “But L1brar1an, you aren’t a library student!”  – True, friend true. I am no longer a library student but I am student of libraries (ha!). So we (myself and my co-author) specifically chose this journal for two reasons. First, this was an audience that would benefit most from the subject of our article (Poster Sessions). Two, this is an open access journal available freely via the internet so anybody can find this and read this. In this case, instead of targeting a journal specifically because it was peer-reviewed, we actually wanted people to access and read this article. Now I won’t say my article  is the best article in the world (far from it). Actually, I think there is a really good article on making a poster session out there already but that article is buried in an obscure journal nobody but a librarian would find (and it ain’t in a librarian journal). Just as libraries are trying to meet the user where they are, it would be great if librarians (and others) would publish where the appropriate readers are.

So here is my article:

A pathway to professional success: a step-by-step guide for creating poster sessions in library and information studies for MLIS students and new librarians - LIBRARY STUDENT JOURNAL – Volume 5 – 2010

If you want to see more of my work (including posters from poster sessions) click here.

from the great blog – www.l1brar1an.com – of course!

Tags: libraries, publishing