{"id":1596,"date":"2009-12-29T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T04:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2009-12-29T12:52:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T04:52:25","slug":"kick-ass-superhero-mentors-oh-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/kick-ass-superhero-mentors-oh-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick Ass Superhero Mentors? Oh Yeah."},"content":{"rendered":"

I love it when people outside libraries see us not as dinosaurs, but share ideas with which I heartily agree.<\/p>\n

Today, Kathy Sierra<\/a> (programmer, game developer and author of my favourite deceased blog, Creating Passionate Users<\/a>) gave me a glimpse on Twitter:<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"KathrySierra\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Reminded again that libraries should be rebranded\/repositioned as Centers for Kicking Ass. You leave w\/ more ability than you came with.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She elaborated in her next tweet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Kids want better graphics rez for games, but learning about trees, stars, clouds, bugs… it’s like upgrading the resolution of the WORLD<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The thought was keeping already kick-ass librarian Kate Sheehan awake<\/a> – what should we call ourselves in this case?<\/p>\n

I loved Kathy Sierra’s answer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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@itsjustkate<\/a> there’s always that character in the comic books… the one that mentors and\/or supplies the new superheroes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Judging by their “read” poster, I think this mission is one that the Kalamazoo Public Library<\/a> has already taken on board, kpl-read-poster-3<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Kick-Ass Superhero Mentors? I think I can live with that vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love it when people outside libraries see us not as dinosaurs, but share ideas with which I heartily agree. Today, Kathy Sierra (programmer, game developer and author of my favourite deceased blog, Creating Passionate Users) gave me a glimpse on Twitter: Reminded again that libraries should be rebranded\/repositioned as Centers for Kicking Ass. You…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-pK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}