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…
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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…
Coding for Young Adults
INF330 | Professional Development | 4 min read Introduction Coding is prevalent in every aspect of our information age, it is driving the evolution of technology and giving rise to some of our most advanced technologies (Eleven Fifty Academy, 2017). Despite this, integration into school curriculums and library provisions has been gradual despite its predominance Read More…