My presentation for the LIRT program at ALA is up. It is titled Of Horses and Water and is about what public libraries can do to help kids prepare for college.
I didn’t talk about formal Bibliographic Instruction methods, but rather talked about gitting kids in the library and turning them into library users by making personal connections. The idea of connecting to users was echoed by all of the speakers. This made me happy.
One other neat thing in the presentation was James Krusling’s idea of presenting a number of things at one when students are in front of computers. This mimics their information/entertainment gathering habits and doesn’t leave them so bored that they start checking their email and IMming each other. Has basic computer work ceased to be a hot media and needs to be to hold some people’s attention?
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It is always fun to find how much of what we do at Thomas Ford lands into your presentations. It’s like reality TV, but in a nice way.