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Prosecutor as bully | LESSIG Blog, v2 on information privilege. – info-mational The concept of information privilege situates information literacy in a sociocultural context of justice and access. Information as the media and messages that underlie individual and collective awareness and knowledge building; privilege as the advantages, opportunities, rights, and affordances granted by status and positionality via class, race, gender, culture, sexuality, occupation, institutional affiliation, and political perspective. In an extended period of relative disengagement with writing I have started and stopped and restarted this post so many times that it’s become a bit ridiculous, but based on the interest generated by discussions of information privilege in my teaching and speaking contexts it’s clearly time to finish. information privilege in practice Any type of information worker can examine this phenomenon and develop strategies to counter it. information privilege as pedagogy scaling the paywall “Why in the world does it cost so much?” “It doesn’t make sense!”

processing the loss of Aaron Swartz The last 24 hours have been an emotional roller coaster. I woke up yesterday to find that a friend of mine – Aaron Swartz – had taken his life. My Twitter feed went into mourning – shock, sadness, anger, revenge. I spent the day talking with friends who were all in various states of disarray. I watched as many of them poured out their hearts on their blogs, a practice we’ve all been doing for over a decade. For better or worse, I’ve known a lot of people over the years who have committed suicide. There’s no doubt in my mind that depression was a factor. I’ve known Aaron for nine years and I both adored him to pieces and found him frustrating as hell. What made me so overwhelmingly angry yesterday was the same thing that has been boiling in my gut for the last two years. Reasonable people can disagree about tactics and where and when a particular approach pushes too far. There is a lot of justifiable outrage out there.

Beyond the Collection Diversity Audit: Inclusion is More Than a Book, Why we should be auditing all of our library services for inclusion and best practices When I first began doing collection diversity audits, I had no idea that was what they were called. It was actually SLJ editor Kathy Ishizuka who gave me a name for what I was doing. I had Tweeted out pictures of me trying to figure out how inclusive my collection was and she said, “Oh, you’re doing a diversity audit”. Since doing that first collection diversity a few audit years ago, I have changed my approach in the ways that I do a lot of things, keeping an eye always towards analyzing myself for inclusive practices and challenging myself to step out of my personal default, which is a white cisgender Christian perspective. 1. I have not done storytimes for a really long time. 2. Although I am not currently in charge of doing any displays, at my last position I spent a lot of time analyzing and rewriting guidelines for how we approached displays. 3. Many libraries offer some type of book discussion group or book club for patrons to participate in. 4. 5. More on Diversity Audits

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Week 14 Synthesis Steve's Take on Risks, Issues, & Challenges Big Ideas I took our week's discussions and threw them into a word cloud to see what stood out. David Pogue There was a lot of discussion about AR and VR. The issues and challenges of VR and AR are numerous, but in a conversation between Sarah D. and Amy L., the issue of cost versus value arose. "Technology is always most expensive when it first comes out, and there's always that chance that it's just a fad, or the public isn't quite ready, or the next invention bypasses it altogether. This is a particularly important issue, as so many school library budgets are shrinking. Image: "Augmented Reality (AR) in KABK" by przemion \uf8ff is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Our PLNs Everyone is engaging with their PLNs in lots of interesting ways. More than a few of us are grappling with virtual versus analog PLNs. Digital Role Models & Social Media Influencers These folks have very slick media images. Other Items of Interest

Copyright free image websites Trouble viewing this page? Go to our diagnostics page to see what's wrong. Annual report What difference has your library and its services made to student learning? What were the year’s highlights and which areas need future development? How do you know? For each area of content you include in your report, you'll need evidence gathered over the course of the year. Keep your intended audience in mind while you’re writing the report. The following topics are a guide. Rationale for your school library Summarise the library's role in supporting your school’s vision for student learning. Library guiding documents Highlights of the past year Share the main highlights of the year — celebrate your successes! Library statistics Summarise key information about how students, teachers, parents or whānau and your school community use the library: Developing readers Show how your library has contributed to the building of a school-wide reading culture. Strategies to engage students as readers Inquiry learning and digital literacy Role of library in supporting inquiry Collection management Staffing