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Virtual Symposium: 5 Key Take Aways
I feel lucky to have been able to take this class and have enjoyed the whole process. Michael and his teaching has been an inspiration. I look forward to using what I learned to inspire me in the future. I made a slide show for my Virtual Symposium talking about my “5 Key Take Aways”…
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Inspiration Report: Indigenous Heritage Collection of Alameda County
For my Inspiration Report, I created a proposal for a new collection/archive called “Indigenous Heritage Collection of Alameda County.” The Indigenous Heritage Collection of Alameda County’s objective is to build a digital collection archiving, digitizing, documenting, and housing cultural and historical materials and artifacts from the Muwekma Ohlone Indigenous Tribe using appropriate tribal and community protocol…
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Reflection Blogging: Infinite Learning & Adulting
In the lecture video for the Module “Infinite Learning: Library as a Class,” Dr. Michael Stephens talks about how some libraries are offering classes on topics pertaining to life literacy—what we need to do to live/exist and “adulting 101.” I gravitated to this topic because I’ve always felt an appeal to this term and I…
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Reflection Blogging: The Power of Stories
It is currently Spring Break for myself and my school aged children. The other day, we decided to take a day trip to Half Moon Bay, CA to visit the beach. My mom came along too. My family has a long history in relation to Half Moon Bay. My paternal grandparents have a house in…
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Reflection Blogging: New Horizons & Our Future
While making my way through Model 9: New Horizons, I read the assigned reading article, Growing up with Alexa: A child’s relationship with Amazon’s voice assistant By Samantha Murphy Kelly. Around the same time, I had come across some posts on social media that really resonated with me in my time of life. I am…
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Innovation Strategy & Roadmap: Community Garden
For the Innovation Strategy & Roadmap assignment I created a fictional program at my local library in Fremont, CA that is a Community Garden/Checkout-a-Plot program. My informational slide show on Canva can be viewed here: Fremont Main Library Community Garden – Checkout-a-Plot References Beckym. (2021, June 4). Centerville Library’s Learning Garden & Seed Library. Alameda County…
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Reflection Blogging: Hyperlinked Environments & Issues – AI & ChatGTP
For Module 6 – Hyperlinked Environments & Issues we got to “choose our own adventure” to learn more about a specific topic. I purposely chose to focus my studies on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ChatGTP because I have made a consorted effort to avoid these things in the past because they make me feel uncomfortable.…
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Reflection: Hyperlinked Communities & History
A lot of what I have done for the first part of my week for school has revolved around doing the reading for “Module 5: Hyperlinked Community” and starting to do research for my final research paper topic for my “INFO285-Historical Research Methods” class. My tentative topic is The WPA Pack Horse Library Project which…
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Welcome to the Future: The Staff-less Library
[Photo Source: Mountain View Voice] “Self-service libraries provide a quiet, round-the-clock reading space for their users and have transformed libraries’ service model from one of ‘users waiting for library services’ to one of ‘library waiting to service users’” (Zhang, Y. et al., 2022). “Staff-less library”/ “self-service library” / “unmanned library” there are many…
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Hello, I’m Laurel! (Blog Post 1)
Hello! My name is Laurel and I reside in the East SF Bay Area where I live with my two children (Lorelai, aged eight and Desmond, aged five), my husband, a miniature poodle named Gus, and two kittens that have adopted my family (they were abandoned in my backyard by their feral mother as tiny…
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