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Research Roundup, Student Edition: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and Early Childhood
No full textThis list features freely accessible links to research and resources on social-emotional learning (SEL) in early childhood. The resources can help children’s librarians and early childhood practitioners expand their knowledge and equip them with practical skills to promote SEL practices at libraries and/or other childcare settings
From the Chair
No full textI hope you are all enjoying the warming weather (or at least making the best of it). By the time this issue is published, I imagine that I will have spent several days sitting on my porch or hanging out at a gorge. I can’t wait. I also hope by the time you are reading this that most, if not everyone, has been able to get vaccinated.During the past year, in addition to efforts to grow our membership, the leadership of GODORT has endeavored to retain a sense of community through a difficult time. Our Friday chats have been successful with a wide range of topics from government documents in the news to a discussion of the Mapping Prejudice Project. While we may not be able to sustain the pace of the chats indefinitely, I hope we can continue to come together informally in between conferences
Constitution Illustrated
No full textFans of comics and cartoons will revel in the creative deployment of characters from the funny pages throughout Constitution Illustrated. Artist R. Sikoryak is a contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review and is the author of several illustrated books. In his latest work, he has concocted an ingenious ploy to enliven the text of the Constitution. Each page features a different section of the Constitution being recited by cartoon characters. Sikoryak has imitated the style and borrowed the characters of dozens of cartoonists. Readers will find favorites both classic and contemporary, from Bud Counihan’s Betty Boop and Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy to Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For and Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor. Aficionados will have fun figuring out the artist being imitated on each page, and a helpful index provides a key to the source of each drawing for those who aren’t able to recognize the myriad cartoonists represented
Get to Know . . . Shari Laster
No full textFor government information professionals in libraries, it is sometimes difficult to say which is more rewarding: engaging with the collection or engaging with people in support of the collection. For library professionals like Shari Laster, there is often ample opportunity to do both. Advocating on behalf of users as well as collections is a natural part of Shari’s work, including in her tenure as Head of Open Stack Collections at Arizona State University (ASU)
Chapter 1. Introduction
No full textChapter 1 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 57, no. 6), “Introduction,” explains that it is possible to view metadata implementations as falling into one of two broad categories depending on whether they do or do not adhere to linked-data practices. Entities, properties, and values are concepts essential to metadata and metadata modeling and are handled differently in these two types of implementations
Chapter 3. Components
No full textChapter 3 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 57, no. 6), “Components,” explains that metadata application profiles (MAPs) have four components: the application, entities, properties, values. When an application requires a MAP, entities are the things described. Arguably the main purpose of a MAP is to identify properties describing entities. Properties have values also described by a MAP. MAP components are familiar to metadata professionals, but MAP contents have changed, largely due to the increasing adoption of linked-data practices
Readers' Advisory: RA School: Learning from ILS Faculty
No full textBuilding upon our “eavesdropping” columns that invite groups of advisors to gather via email and discuss practice, philosophy, and methods, this issue invites us all back to school. Here four ILS faculty gather to consider the key principles of Readers’ Advisory (RA) and their philosophy of RA service. They also answer why RA is not taught more broadly and they, of course, have a book to share. Most centrally, in this wide-ranging conversation, their passion for the service and the importance they place upon the activity of reading shines through.—Editor
Chapter 5. Staff Use of Mobile
No full textChapter 5 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 57, no. 2), “Mobile Technology in Libraries,” covers how mobile technology and tools can benefit library staff. This chapter includes providing smartphones and tablets for staff, using mobile devices for outside library events, using mobile devices for video and social media, creating a photo booth for customers, and using tablets as digital signage, catalog kiosks, and exhibit accessories. Staff-focused mobile apps are also discussed
Chapter 6. Resources
No full textChapter 6 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 57, no. 8), “Using the Toward Gigabit Libraries Toolkit,” lists a helpful article on the TGL project. It also lists a few of the publicly available webinars that Carson Block or Stephanie Stenberg have given to various organizations about how to utilize the toolkit for various purposes in libraries around the country