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Chartership
For those of you who followed Library Too, a small announcement. My portfolio was accepted and I can now register as a Chartered Librarian.
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Dolly Parton is in Rotherham tomorrow. She is here as part of her Imagination Library project, which Rotherham council is interested in.
Now, the scheme sounds good- free books sent every month to children between birth and age 5. Anything that gets books into homes must be good, right?
Partly, yes. But without an equal effort in [...]
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Tags: Dolly Parton, Imagination Library, Reading
Of ebook readers and kindling
Yes, the Kindle; crazy name, crazy product?
There’s a lot of talk about it. There are essentially two camps:-
1. It’s great, a real space time and tree saver
2. It’s not great, a DRM’d up overpriced waste
I wonder if ebooks are an answer to a problem that doesn’t exist. Or, if it does exist, isn’t seen as [...]
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Tags: ebook readers, ebooks, Kindle
Research
Off to London tomorrow for the Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) Committee meeting. Sadly there will be no time to go and see the Ruislip Manor library- the first of the Hillingdon new libraries.
We will be discussing the role of research in libraries and librarianship, particularly how research can be encouraged and the results better [...]
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Putney Debates
One thing before I go…
This year is the 340th anniversary of the 1647 Putney Debates; the remarkable experiment in open political debate conducted by the Army. BBC History magazine had some articles devoted to it, but otherwise it’s gone largely unnoticed.
A new exhibition has opened in the church where the debates took place- see the [...]
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Tags: English Civil Wars, Putney Debates
A quote there from a discussion I had with some students on their use of the Learning Centres.
They don’t use books because they find them difficult to navigate. They don’t have the rapid response they expect from using the Internet. They appreciate that the net is ‘full of crap’ but it is still their first [...]
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Tags: "information literacy", Books, Education
Slow Reading needs your help!
John Midiema posts about the Slow Reading entry on Wikipedia. If you feel you can add anything, please do.
Slow Reading represents an attempt to get us to think about how we engage with what we read. I see it as part of a turn against seeing everything as mere ‘information’ to be processed as quickly [...]
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The sound of silence
Why is it that the views of Hillingdon staff have not been heard?
Because they are not allowed to comment on the plans. Many haven’t even seen them.
Why should they be, Pete? As public servants shouldn’t they just do as they’re told?
Well, no. As adults and citizens they should be as free as anyone involved to [...]
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Huzzah for some sense in this matter. If I read one more snarky ‘look at how clever I am’ post about Harry Potter I shall have to write that ‘you are all idiots’ post that bubbles up at such moments.
For a lot of people, enjoying a book is not enough. You must also validate lit crit with [...]
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