Asako Yoshida's List: Librarian Stuff

• Social Security is currently running a surplus, which is being used to help reduce the annual budget deficit. While Social Security receives Treasury bonds in exchange for those payments, eventually those bonds must be redeemed by the U.S. government, putting further strain on the federal budget as the baby boom generation begins to retire and the pool of workers needed to finance Social Security payments begins to shrink.

• self-directed learning, as they become engaged in using a wide variety of information sources to expand their knowledge, ask informed questions, and sharpen their critical thinking for still further self-directed learning.
• To take fullest advantage of problem-based learning, students must often use thinking skills requiring them to become skilled users of information sources in many locations and formats, thereby increasing their responsibility for their own learning.

• Too broadly conceived that I can use it. - Asako Yoshida on 2008-06-06
• I agree completely with the introductory section about the intention of the standards. But when it come to the Standards section, I am not sure how we can assume the items listed would bring about the intention. - Asako Yoshida on 2008-06-09

• • It's a big issue with libraries. We need a new orientation to tackle this big challenge. We surely need a out-side of the system perspective and orientation.
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• n each case what we see is a backend apparatus for managing collections, each with its own workflow, systems and organizational support. And each with its own - different - front-end presentation and discovery mechanisms. What this means is that the front-end presentation mirrors the organizational development over time of the library backend systems, rather than the expectations or behaviors of the users.
• The awkward disjointedness described above also means that it is difficult to mobilize the consolidated library resource into other environments, course management or social networking systems for example. It is difficult to flexibly put what is wanted where it is wanted.
• here has been much discussion of library interoperability, but it has tended to be about how to tie together these individual pieces, or about tying pieces to other environments (how do I get my repository harvested for example). There has been less focus on how you might abstract the full library experience for consumption by other applications - a campus portal for example.
• Routing, resolution and registries become critical, as one wants to enable users to move easily from a variety of discovery environments to resources they are authorized to use. We need a richer apparatus to support this.
• libraries need to think about how their resources are best represented in discovery environments which they don't manage.
• how we present library services for consumption by other environments becomes an issue
• Streamlining the logistics of delivery and providing transparency on status at any stage for the user (as they can do with UPS or Amazon) become more important.
• • Yes, that's why I am in this field!!
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• The end is the enhancement of research, learning and personal development
• Libraries need to focus more attention on reconfiguring library services for network environments.

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