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MOOCs and Information Literacy Instruction


I’ve been taking a Coursera MOOC and have been thinking a lot about how libraries can utilize elements from some of these new educational models. Daphne Koller, one of the founders of Coursera, discussed in recent TED Talk a key difference between face to face learning and online education models. Massive online courses, like the Introduction [...]

Libraries Are In The Curiosity Business


I was at a conference last month and during a roundtable discussion one of the participants related that his dentist asked him about the future of libraries. The dentist wanted to know if there would be a library at all when his daughter went to college. People wonder if libraries will still be around in [...]

Positive Vision and Questions in Libraries


“All we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” -Buddha “A vivid imagination compels the whole body to obey it.” -Aristotle I just began a 6 week online workshop on Appreciative Inquiry conducted by David Cooperrider at Case Western University’s Weatherhead School of Management. [...]