{"id":2582,"date":"2010-09-08T09:49:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T01:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2010-09-08T09:49:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T01:49:29","slug":"so-what-do-we-teach-in-university-library-technology-courses-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/so-what-do-we-teach-in-university-library-technology-courses-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"So, what do we teach in university library technology courses? Part 1."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alia.org.au\/alia2010camp\/wiki\/pmwiki.php\">unconference Camp session of the ALIA Access Conference<\/a> via Twitter for most of last Friday. Congratulations to the unorganisers and participants. It sounds like a stimulating and high energy day that did what these events aim to do &#8211; cut through the bullshit and got to the heart of what people were thinking and wanted to share.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4144\/4962574788_8976d90242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">kjlindsay. (2010). Library Camp. Retrieved from http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30245219@N04\/4962574788\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There was one session that interested me particularly &#8211; &#8220;<em>what I wish I learned in Library School<\/em>&#8220;. There were a lot of useful ideas floated, but the one that kept being tweeted out was along the lines &#8220;we are a learning profession, to know how to learn&#8221;, &#8220;we need to keep PD (professional development) as what we do&#8221;, &#8220;being lifelong learners&#8221;, &#8220;being open to learning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In response, I tweeted out three tweets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<blockquote>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li> Re:Need to teach library school students to learn to learn.Think is copout.Could apply to any tertiary discipline.What is special abt libs?<\/li>\n<li> Agree need to be passionate, engaged example that models how to present and teach and love finding out and provide context&#8230;<\/li>\n<li> Model being engaged *with what*? Model learning *what*? Uni, profession wants assessed &amp; rubberstamped grads.What r assessable deliverables?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three lots of 140 characters aren&#8217;t very good at explaining what one means, so here is more explanation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What should be in the professional skillset?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Curtin University, like many universities we have identified &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/otl.curtin.edu.au\/teaching_learning\/attributes.cfm\">Graduate Attributes<\/a>&#8220;. This is what all academics should remember and incorporate and model for students in the hope of graduates having the following attributes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apply discipline knowledge, principles and concepts;<\/li>\n<li>Think critically, creatively and reflectively;<\/li>\n<li>Access, evaluate and synthesise information;<\/li>\n<li>Communicate effectively;<\/li>\n<li>Use technologies appropriately;<\/li>\n<li>Utilise lifelong learning skills;<\/li>\n<li>Recognise and apply international perspectives;<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate cultural awareness and understanding; and<\/li>\n<li>Apply professional skills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, these seem to be very similar to what people at the ALIA Access conference were identifying they want from library school graduates. And I get the message &#8211; but all professions want engaged lifelong learners who use technologies effectively and communicate effectively.What do we want in new librarians&#8217; professional skillset when they graduate?<\/p>\n<p>I have been doing some thinking around these ideas. In my next post I have a whole bunch of questions around how I am trying to decide what I should be teaching and how I should be teaching it. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the unconference Camp session of the ALIA Access Conference via Twitter for most of last Friday. Congratulations to the unorganisers and participants. It sounds like a stimulating and high energy day that did what these events aim to do &#8211; cut through the bullshit and got to the heart of what people&hellip;<\/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-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-FE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}