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Search History
One of the core competencies that a librarian must possess is an understanding of how people search. For me this is difficult since I have often played the role of placer versus seeker. While I have not logged many hours at the reference desk, I have helped faculty, staff, and students navigate sophisticated, complex computer…
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On Censorship
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” Joseph Brodsky Censorship seeks to maintain social control by depriving people of information that challenges the status quo. Brodsky would know, having first been committed to a mental hospital then sent to a work camp before the Soviet Union expelled him…
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Topic Three Readings
I have not employed any formal instructional design in anything that I have ever attempted to teach, except for ideas that I read/heard about. I am familiar with the concept of SMART goals and learning objectives and I think having the terms from Bloom’s Taxonomy to wrap around objectives would be useful for creating a…