INF330 | Professional Development – Emerging Technologies Introduction Games have come to fit a societal need amongst libraries through their technologically advanced mechanics and design (American Library Association, 2020). As libraries have a mission to provide cultural, recreational, educational, informational, and entertaining materials and services. Consequently, when gaming activities are available, they are positive community Read More…
Month: January 2021
Podcast Review; Kidlit and the 2020 Youth Book Awards.
INF330 | Professional Development – Young Peoples Book Awards | 4 min read Introduction ‘Kidlit These Days’ by Book Riot is a podcast presented by Mathew Winner and Nichole Young, a pair of children’s book specialists who discuss children’s literature in correlation to industry, schooling, and libraries (Book Riot). Episode twenty-two of their podcast series Read More…
Brooklyn Public Library and Diversity Through Multilingual Storytime
INF330 | Professional Development Blog – Diversity | 4 min read Storytime has always been incredibly popular amongst children and caregivers alike, however, purposes can conflict when language barriers become deterrents and inadvertent bias (McKenzie & Stooke, 2012). Additionally, virtual story has become increasingly popular since Covid-19’s pandemic, prior to the outbreak only 12% of Read More…
Morris Gleitzman, ‘Once’ and Censorship. A Book Review
INF330 | Professional Development Blog – Censorship | 3 min read “Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once” ― Morris Gleitzman, Once Censorship is a problematic and complex topic for our society but is especially fractious regarding library media and children. Censorship can be described as a government or an organization preventing Read More…