Comments on: A-ha Moments In Librarianship http://andyburkhardt.com/2011/03/14/a-ha-moments-in-librarianship/ Top of the Information Food Chain Thu, 16 May 2013 11:43:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Creating Meaning for Library Users | Information Tyrannosaur http://andyburkhardt.com/2011/03/14/a-ha-moments-in-librarianship/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 Creating Meaning for Library Users | Information Tyrannosaur Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:30:24 +0000 http://andyburkhardt.com/?p=1478#comment-1352 [...] would be a more relevant meaning. For these type of users you may want to design more around the “a-ha!” moment. Using this model, you need to examine your own community and tap into what is meaningful to [...]

]]> By: Andy Burkhardt http://andyburkhardt.com/2011/03/14/a-ha-moments-in-librarianship/comment-page-1/#comment-997 Andy Burkhardt Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:49:35 +0000 http://andyburkhardt.com/?p=1478#comment-997 Jess, it’s really fun to see when students get excited about research or their topic or finding information, especially when they weren’t expecting much. Sometimes students are phoning it in on their project or waiting until the last minute, but the best interactions are the ones where they are genuinely interested. That interest and excitement is contagious for me and makes me want to help them even more.

]]> By: Jess http://andyburkhardt.com/2011/03/14/a-ha-moments-in-librarianship/comment-page-1/#comment-996 Jess Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:37:26 +0000 http://andyburkhardt.com/?p=1478#comment-996 A girl came to the desk the other day with a stack of books to check out. She was waiting for a friend to bring her ID so I asked her if she’d found all the information she needed.

She responded that she had and was surprised at how many books there were on her topic because she’d only found two in the catalog. Apparently she’d figured out that by browsing around those two books in the stacks, she could find more books on the same topic. I didn’t get to see the “ah-ha” moment and I don’t know if she’d ever had any library instruction, but it was great to see how excited she was about the books and finding all the other books in the stacks.

]]> By: Andy Burkhardt http://andyburkhardt.com/2011/03/14/a-ha-moments-in-librarianship/comment-page-1/#comment-995 Andy Burkhardt Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:26:39 +0000 http://andyburkhardt.com/?p=1478#comment-995 That’s so cool that you did topic definition with your hair stylist! I hope she added a free bottle of shampoo or something for your help. :) And it goes to show that at work you’re not just going through the motions. You genuinely enjoy helping people and even talk about it for fun in your everyday life.

]]> By: Emily http://andyburkhardt.com/2011/03/14/a-ha-moments-in-librarianship/comment-page-1/#comment-994 Emily Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:39:15 +0000 http://andyburkhardt.com/?p=1478#comment-994 A few weeks ago, I was getting my hair cut and my stylist mentioned that she was finishing up her degree and had a big paper due. I asked what she was going to write about and she said she wasn’t sure. We ended up talking it out and by the end, she said pretty much the same thing you described in this post. I had to say, “You know, if you ask a librarian at your school, they would help you like this too,” but it was fun to have a reference interaction in my regular, non-library life.

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