A Modest Proposal

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I am thankful to ACRL's Recruitment & Nominations committee and honored and humbled to stand for election with Lauren Pressley as a candidate for ACRL vice-president/president-elect. ACRL has been my professional home since my initial years as an academic librarian. The landscape of higher education and academic libraries continues to ever evolve as much as technology transforms asynchronous and synchronous learning. Academic libraries and librarians must continue to remain relevant. Highlighting our scholarship, teaching, and service to students, faculty, and administrators at our respective institutions. ACRL initiatives such as the recent Diversity Alliance addresses a personal mission of mine. The lack of demographics from our communities …show more content…

Each of these four areas from the strategic plan is vital for maintaining and enhancing the present and future contributions of our purpose as an association. Beginning with the Value of Academic Libraries, this area has made good progress in articulating the intricacies in demonstrating the value of the academic library on the campus for each institution. Incorporating the qualitative and quantitative variables within the era of accountability is key. This era also is known as assessment, clarifies the value of academic libraries and how this determining value contributes to the success of our students and institutions. Secondly, there is Student Learning, I will call this area as our raison d'etre. Students personify our contributions to their academic success. This is achieved by academic librarians and libraries being the pillars for information literacy and instilling or refining each student's understanding of this valuable skill while taking classes or beyond their time at our

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Librarians are defined as “a person, typically with a degree in library science, who administers or assists in a library.” In truth, they are much more than that. In a recent interview with Traci Glass, the Teen Librarian at the Eugene Public library, we explored her personal story with becoming a librarian, including how it has benefitted and affected her life.
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A Modest Proposal
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An Oxford University graduate, Jonathan Swift, in his article, A Modest Proposal, proposes a solution to Irelands growing poverty in the 18th century by proposing the selling and eating of innocent babies. Swift’s purpose is to state the benefits that the poor would gain from selling their one year old children to the wealthy to eat them. He takes on a concerning tone in order to convince the people of Ireland to consider and adopts his obscene plan.
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A Modest Proposal
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Since the beginning of the 19th century, America has had to deal with the on going
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At Embanet, they believe that maintaining the integrity and quality of their academic partners is their foremost responsibility. Their program development, student acquisition and student support services follow this belief. Their goal is to build lasting partnerships that enable the academic partners to expand their educational reach through effective, profitable, and fully realized online learning solutionsEmbanet is dedicated to student’s success and the academic institutions they represent. The core values are ownership, performance, innovation and solution. They act and think like owners and take pride in their work and accomplishments. They embody balanced wins, believing that anyone can only truly succeed when coworkers, academic partners and their students succeed. Achieving this balance in performance that leads to a stronger partnership, engaged employees and satisfied students. In addition, they strive to enhance everything. They want to
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The students will also be happy that the school leaders do not neglect their welfare and this will greatly promote their readiness to learn. Updating the library with modern books and other materials will supply the students with the major information needed from time to time, and the implication of this is that the learning strength of the students will continue increasing. Building a new library in the campus is also a crucial issue that must be attended to. If this can be quickly achieved, it will be seen that the students of Lone star will be greatly happy and reciprocate by showing more eagerness to learn and cooperate with the school authority. It’s an outstanding way of boosting the students’ knowledge because this facility will give them the intellectual power needed to compete with their counterparts in other institutions. In other to complement other points mentioned, funds must be made available for every project. If enough money can be provided by the government, the institution or other stakeholders, the best of library facilities will be provided on the campus and the academic morale of the students will be surely
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A Modest Proposal
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In Jonathan Swift’s satire, “A Modest Proposal”, Swift writes about the starving people of Ireland in the early 1700’s. He makes a wild and absurd proposal to help remedy the problems of overpopulation and poverty. Swift wants to make a political statement by using the “children” as satire to grasp the attention of the audience - the English people, the Irish politicians and the rich – and make them aware of the political, moral, and social problems. In “A Modest Proposal”, Swift’s arguments are presented effectively by using pathos (emotional appeal), ethos (ethics and values), and logos (logic reasoning and facts).
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The lectures by Jessica Gillis and Lisa Nowlain showed how a youth services librarian does not fit under one definition and may have very different roles depending on the position. While both obtained their degrees from San Jose State University, their vision and geographical preferences have led them in very different directions.
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A Modest Proposal
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Rapid technological development has increased the demand for compact and reliable electronic devices. Compact sized products with improved connectivity coupled with high speed will likely emerge winners. Connectors are an integral part of such devices. The key drivers of the connector industry are growing 3C applications (computing, communication, and consumer electronics), miniaturization of electronic devices, and increasing electronic content in devices.
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My Modest Proposal
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Since the beginning of time humans have worn clothing that defines their era, race, and personality. From a caveman wearing his favorite mammoth skin to a 1980’s righteous teen wearing her all time favorite bright orange neon retro blazers. Heartbreakingly, at the school of Putnam City North High, fashion has shot down the drain as teens decide to get dress blind folded every morning. As I look around the halls of sweats and dirty over-sized t-shirts, I am bombarded with the embarrassment of having these “fashion senses” be the look of our generation. These undressed, tacky, lazy wear must come to an end before our children look back on the classes of the late 2000’s with expressions of disgust as they wonder what the heck we were thinking.
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An academic library is a part of service organization whose primary role is to promote excellence in curricular and co-curricular programmer by way of providing easy and convenient access to documents and information contained in document. Library services for students have never been as important for students as they are today. In this age of information explosion and changes frontiers of educational scenario calls for access to the knowledge and lifelong learning and literacy skills to develop potentialities with the studies.
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The L Word Versus the I Word
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Of the 49 ALA-accredited library science programs in the United States, only one - the School of Library Science at Clarion University - omits the word "information" from its name. The "L" word doesn't fare so well. Twenty-eight percent of accredited library science programs have dropped the word "library" from their name. Other "I" word schools don't bother to seek accreditation because they no longer see their mission as training librarians.
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Proposal
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Computer Science is one the fastest growing industries in America and worldwide. Employment in all computer science occupations is expected to increase by 22% through 2020. That projected increase is appealing to a large portion of current and future college students. The competition of finding a job in the future market is going to grow ever more difficult along side the employment increase. Getting the correct skills from a Computer Science degree is key to separating yourself from the completion.
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Librarians in multicultural environment.
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In the effort to fulfill their mission of disseminating information, librarians face a variety of challenges. Some of these challenges pertain to collection development, technical services, cataloging backlogs, and the handling of new technologies. Other challenges are related to legal issues and intellectual freedom, such as material objections and Internet access. Library management has dealt with these challenges for years by updating the technology, increasing the staff, and educating employees and customers. Effective communication poses a different and important challenge to librarians, especially to reference librarians.The communication between reference librarians and library customers is difficult to a point that librarians need to use special communication tools to be able to deliver the best service. The United States is one of the countries where librarians, in general, and academic librarians, in particular, are more prone to deal with multicultural customers. This can make their job even more difficult. Does the communication in multicultural environments create a real problem for libraries? Does the library management need to intervene in order to solve these problems? Alternatively, should management leave this issue to the individual librarians to educate themselves and overcome this challenge?
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seek out appropriate opportunities to continuously improve our programs and services in response to changing needs of students and the dynamics of academia.
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The third role of the school resource center is to provide research opportunities for senior students. The library provides technology that is accessible to the students. They often use the technology to search for information. Library can provide research opportunities for the senior students when the teachers and librarians collaborate. Teachers will give any project or assignment to the senior students that require them to do a research. They must make sure that the questions given must make the students to go beyond searching simple answers. This will encourage the students to go to the library to find the related information. This can be done using the technology that enables them to access the computerized databases and search for the relevant research information. The librarians will assist the students in search strategies or information seeking skills by using the Boolean operators and truncation, using suitable keywords and controlled vocabulary when searching for information in the databases, using the thesaurus and more. Not only that, the librarians will also help them in answering their complex research questions, note taking, give suggestions of where to look and gather for the information that they need such as giving them a list of websites that are useful for their research, evaluating the information whether it is relevant, accurate or suitable, and how to organize their findings. Once they got the answers, they can apply them to their research project or assignment. This proves that the library provides research opportunities for the senior students through the availability of its resources and with the help of the librarians. Besides that, with this research opportunity, it will motivate the students and will ...
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A Modest Proposal

Traci Glass: The Teen Librarian