Moyers on faith and social justice

Once again, Bill Moyers demonstrates his mastery at bringing together powerhouse thinkers on progressive thought.  The July 3 show of Bill Moyers Journal titled “Faith and Social Justice” featured Cornel West, Gary Dorrien, and Serene Jones who collectively teach a course at Union Theological Seminary called “Christianity and the U.S. Crisis” (which can actually be [...]

Loertscher strikes again!

With his new book, The New Learning Commons: Where Learners Win, David Loertscher strikes yet another 21st Century Learner note: learners need to participate in the common spaces libraries provide to become better learners.     In the new School Library Journal article, Loertscher compares the “old” model of libraries to what is currently happening to the [...]

One for the po-mo business world

I’m digging on Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: the Power of Organizing Without Organizations.  It’s outside my normal range of reading, but I’m interested in what he has to say on how “flat” organizations structures can actually come into fruition in today’s educational and/or Quaker environment (my spin on reading this).  I’m no business management [...]

CB “Library revival”

Library Revival! and Mind the Gap…
Last year, a Pew Internet & American Life Project report stated, “There are several major findings…one is this: For help with a variety of common problems, more people turn to the internet than consult experts or family members to provide information and [...]

the art of relevancy

Lots of talk in school (and other) libraries on how our spaces and materials are relevant to the Internet generation. This is part of an ongoing discussion which has probably lasted through all previous technologies that were supposed to put libraries out of business (remember radio and film as “the great educator” potential they [...]