“But libraries still have to motivate their employees. Pink suggests that we need to give them three critical things:
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
In other words, we need to give them the ability to make decisions about their work and feel good doing it. We need to give them space, time, and the knowledge that they can find their own way. Time to play, invent, think deep thoughts, and be creative.”
viXra.org: An Alternative Archive Of e-Prints In Science And Mathematics ViXra.org is an e-print archive set up as an alternative to the popular arXiv.org service owned by Cornell University.
http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Multiliteracies_Group_1_SU_09#What_is_literacy.3F ________ Henry Jenkins, Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins ________ References Revisiting Multiliteracies in Collaborative Learning Environments: Impact on Teacher Professional Development A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies Designing Social Futures The New London Group, A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures file Allan Luke and Victoria Carrington, Globalisation, Literacy, Curriculum Practice [...]
Summary of Findings from the Cast a glance at any coffee shop, train station, or airport boarding gate, and it is easy to see that mobile access to the internet is taking root in our society. Open laptops or furrowed brows staring at palm-sized screens are evidence of how routinely information is exchanged on wireless [...]
“the director of the network, said he had calculated that “the average yearly value to every card used in our system was $706.” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/nyregion/new-jersey/15librarynj.html?_r=2
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6629180.html Library Journal’s new national rating of public libraries, the LJ Index of Public Library Service, identifies 256 “star” libraries, with ratings based on four per-capita service indicators: library visits, circulation, program attendance, and public Internet computer uses, and based on 2006 public library statistical data published by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. [...]
Business Brisk at Area Libraries In Bad Times, Free Resources Are a Hot Commodity By Annie Gowen Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 2, 2009; Page A01 Germantown Library ………………. “People are discovering what an incredible value their library is in their community,” Rettig said. “It’s the only institution in American society” offering such accessible [...]
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