In my recent work I’m responsible about children and teenagers services – so I’m going to listen your experiments and practices in that area very carefully during the Cyc4lib. To think about this homework almost everything in the list has something to do with my daily work: communicating to customers – very important – [...]
My homework is to find the most effective ways to teach students and patrons to be life-long learners by selecting the best resources and methods for searching those resources. Most of my students and many of the patrons I deal with will only search Google and WIkipedia to find their answers. Both are great for [...]
I am part of a working group which is preparing a new website for the library of the University of Poitiers (25 000 students). The current website adress is http://scd.univ-poitiers.fr it’s quite old-style. We are working on a complete redesign. More specifically I work on the query interfaces, metadata harvesting, valorisation of the digital production [...]
Libraries have always been the keeper of the cultural heritage of mankind. But with the advent of the industrial era mankind threatens the very foundation of our existence, nature. Now, libraries as keeper of knowledge and educators of society can play a key role in saving the environment and allow for technical advance at the [...]
Mobile devices and their applications are transforming the landscape of personal computing and information access. I want to start thinking about how we can incorporate mobile apps into the information services that libraries provide to users. What are the tools, skills, and resources that librarians need to build mobile applications for our libraries? How should [...]
For my homework I wanted to propose something that is related to my recent interest in understanding how/if informational needs change in time. I have a question that i would like to ask each of you – so you’ll probably see me cornering you with my voice recorder to ask you this: how did the [...]
One of my favorite professional problems is the question how we librarians are able to go on with our librarianship in the changing library. How we can maintain the enthusiasm to work with many kind of customers and the patience to learn new techniques? For me the cycling event is a good possibility to practice [...]
How to teach children to spend their free time? That there is no sense of omission? I’m working at the National Library of Latvia in Children’s Literature Center. Our visitors mostly are children of the nearest schools and they spend part of their leisure time here – in Children’s Literature Center. At the Center they [...]
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