How To See The Library With Fresh Eyes. Photo by schani on Flickr I just finished the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath.
I highly recommend it and got a number of great ideas from it. But when I read it, one idea in particular stood out in relation to libraries. The idea is “the Curse of Knowledge.” The Heath brothers discuss the Curse of Knowledge in this example: Live at Your Library! Blog: Truant kids in the library. When I was in Florida, the question arose whether public libraries have a responsibility to report kids in the library in the daytime who they suspect are truant. I went back to my great source, Sheila Bryant. In addition to being a librarian and former corrections officer, she was also a truancy officer in Florida. Congrats to Sheila, by the way, as she embarks on her job as a cataloger for Florida A and M University, Tallahassee. Essentially, public librarians are not in loco parentis and have no duty to report suspected truancy.
The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources. The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources Online companion to the book.
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