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When Muslims don't demand something right away, they fall into a state of being offended. This time their anger affected US singer Katy Perry because of her newest video clip on YouTube of her production "Dark Horse." Perry plays a female pharaoh in the clip who can turn men she doesn't like into dust. One of the men asking for her hand is wearing a chain with the "Allah" emblem (photo above, circled in red). Perry also rejects this man and turns him into dust.
A telephone conversation led in the middle of December last year between Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his son Bilal is putting the Turkish despot under great pressure. In the call, Erdogan tells his son put away large sums of money. Now the largest opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP) is publicly demanding his resignation. Erdogan denies it, speaks of "montage" and a "secret attack on the office of the prime minister."
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The US has been known as the outpost of freedom of speech. Until now! Now it has been revealed that the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has presented a plan by the Obama administration to inspect all editorial with regard to balancing of the reports. That means that all articles must take care of the special interests of the minorities, otherwise there is the threat of sanctions! What that means, anyone can imagine: National control of free speech – for American circumstances an extraordinarily foreign concept! It will be interesting to see whether the freedom-spoiled Americans will acquiesce to such a thing.
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SPON gives an excellent analysis of why the stupid Swiss voted for a limitation of immigration. Because, in contrast to the Alps Heinis, real geniuses are sitting around who only have to look at a place in the atlas in order to dissect it.
Iraq is regularly shaken by car bombs, countless innocent people die in the attacks. Now the attackers have blown themselves up by mistake. The were busy in northern Baghdad producing a propaganda film that was supposed to show how one carries out a suicide attack by means of a driving bomb. As the police communicated, the car bomb brought for demonstration purposes suddenly exploded due to a technical error. 21 participants in the schooling died in the explosion, amongst whom was also a man who had already firmly planned a suicide attack. (Source: Focus)
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A majority of just over 50 percent of Swiss registered voters want to restrict the immigration into Switzerland in the future. This result of the referendum from last Sunday comes as no surprise for people who busy themselves greatly with Switzerland. However, the blind and deaf of those Swiss and Europeans, who don't want to listen and see, are surprised at how the vote in the population leaned. This referendum, in its result, can only be surprising in the fact that it came out so closely; because the soul of the people has been boiling.
In order to justify its right of existence, the Muslim Council of
Demands Integration in Bonn must from time to time make proposals over "Everything that isn't leftist and Muslim is right-wing extremist and must be banned," for example, like here. Because the question of "How many right-wing extremists live in Bonn?" unfortunately can't be answered by the Integration Council, someone came up with something new.
The Lower Saxony city Buxtehude is soon also getting its first mosque. The well-known Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat (AMJ), which has already achieved the status of a public corporation plans the building of the mosque on the Alter Postweg in Buxtehude.
In Northern Israeli Nazareth, one of the most important places in the life of Jesus Christ and thus a much sought out place of pilgrimage for Christians, Muslims once again have just put up a large billboard on which the Christians are warned about their alleged heresy.
Islam is the most evil, violent, hateful Far Right Ideology in history.
Angela Merkel who while running for re-election as German Chancellor (she won) became the first Chancellor to visit the Dachau concentration camp. During her visit she warned of the dangers of far-right extremism, pointing to the lessons of German history as an example for all of Europe.
The peace prize recipient of the German book trade, Boualem Sansal (photo) has once again given warning about the islamization of Europe. "The islamists are not fighting just against governments but against every other religion, civilization and culture," Sansal stated in the interview with the JUNGE FREIHEIT (JF)newspaper.
Volunteers of the international organization "Doctors Without Borders" have again been kidnapped in North Syria. "They were all led away for an interrogation Thursday evening, and at this point nothing is known about their fate," one of the staff of the humanitarian organization stated. It is assumed that the doctors were carried off by soldiers from the group "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," which is allied with Al Qaeda. "Doctors Without Borders" functions under the auspices of the so-called Syrian Free Army and go through the country illegally, The Voice of Russia reports. Perhaps it's time finally to rethink this kind of aid action again.
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The name controversy between Malaysian Christians and Muslims is escalating: In an attack, organized Muslims seized Bibles from Christian groups. They wanted to put a stop to the alleged abuse of the word "Allah". The regime party classifies this action as legal.
Atheists in 13 countries throughout the world are in risk of death for denial of faith. This comes from a report by the International Humanist and Ethic Union published at the International Congress of Human Rights in London. While in three countries – Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran – the death penalty for blasphemy is explicitly anchored in the penal code, accordingly executions are the threat for the rejection of convictions of faith also in Afghanistan, for example, through the Taliban or through the Islamists in Nigeria and Somalia.
In the debate over so-called poverty immigration, Germany's Europe representative Elmar Brok (CDU) has brought the registration of fingerprints into the conversation for the prevention of multiple entries. "Immigrants who come to Germany just for the sake of welfare, child subsidy or health insurance need to be quickly sent back to their homelands," the president of the Committee for Foreign Affairs for the European Parliament told the Friday "Bild" newspaper.
Mayotte is an island group between Africa and Madagascar and has around 200,000 inhabitants, 95-97% of which are Sunni Moslems. Mayotte has belonged to France since 1841. In 1974, the Mahoris, as the inhabitants call themselves, voted against independence and for remaining with France. In a referendum in 2009, the island was integrated into the French government as an overseas region and now in a further step, starting 1/1/2014 it will be integrated into the EU. Up to this point, the inhabitants were able to choose between French and islamic law, namely Sharia. Which way the 97% Moslems tend to go isn't very difficult to guess.
Starting immediately, the Muslimas can feel totally at home in downtown Alfeld of southern Lower Saxony: They can now enjoy the wet fun in their total-body condoms. The leftist faction union of SPD/CDU/BAL/GREENS expressed unanimous approval for the allowance of burkinis in the Alfeld "7 Berge" public pool. A Muslima made an according inquiry to the pool management who then cautiously shifted this question to the top.
Abubaker Shariff Ahmed (photo), or "Makaburi" as he calls himself, is an influential Moslem leader in Kenya and he declares Great Britain as a war zone in an interview with sky news. Actually, this is already quite obvious without such a declaration for people who go through life with open eyes and a keen mind. To all those who downplay Islam, the video below is recommended. British soldier Lee Rigby had to die because the British needed this to wake them up, Makaburi said.
Faruq al-Qaddumi (Foto), born in 1931, was a founder of Palestinian Fatah between 1959 and 1964 and became head of the secret service in 1967. Since the death of Jassir Arafat he is secretary general of Fatah and PLO. Fatah was and still is the strongest fraction within the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). The organisation is a full signatory of the Socialist International and has observer status within the Group of the Party of European Socialists. [mehr]
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Unit Corporation (NYSE: UNT) reported a net loss of $19.3 million, or $0.40 per diluted share, for the three months ended June 30, 2012, compared to net income of $49.8 million, or $1.04 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2011. Included in the second quarter 2012 results was a non-cash ceiling test write down of $115.9 million ($72.1 million after tax, or $1.50 per diluted share). The ceiling test write down was required to reduce the carrying value of the company's oil and natural gas properties resulting from significantly lower commodity prices during the second quarter of 2012. Excluding the ceiling test write down, net income for the second quarter of 2012 would have been $52.8 million, or $1.10 per diluted share, a 6% increase over the second quarter 2011 (see Non-GAAP Financial Measures below). Total revenues for the second quarter of 2012 were $329.9 million (45% contract drilling, 40% oil and natural gas, and 15% mid-stream), compared to $291.5 million (40% contract drilling, 45% oil and natural gas, and 15% mid-stream) for the second quarter of 2011.
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Societal transformation and reference services in the academic library: theoretical foundations for re-envisioning reference.
The death of reference has been predicted for a number of years. While library reference service is far from dead, the decline in the number of reference questions is startling. The number of queries in libraries as a whole continues to fall: transactions have declined by 48 percent since 1991 (Kyrillidou and Young 9). In addition, students consistently rank personal attention last out of the 22 core library issues in LibQUAL surveys, coming in just behind instilling confidence in library users (Thompson, Cook, and Kyrillidou). A Pew Internet and American Life survey supports this data, showing that teenagers (whether correctly or incorrectly) already feel confident in their online search skills and thus do not see the need for our services (Fallows). These low-ranking services are associated with reference and instruction, although many other library departments also interact with the public. Personal attention is at the very heart of the reference interview, and the goal of information literacy Several conceptions and definitions of information literacy have become prevalent. For example, one conception defines information literacy in terms of a set of competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to possess to participate intelligently and is to create confident information consumers. To reverse the decline in use of reference services, academic reference librarians must transform their approach.
Many libraries have tackled change in reference services by examining generational differences and technological advances. Millennials (or Generation Y or the Net Generation) have been targeted for surveys, focus groups, and observation in many library studies (Gardner and Eng; Holliday and Li; Breeding; Thomas and McDonald). Librarians have tweaked and prodded technologies to see if they can produce more effective reference service and generate more reference traffic. If librarians are to generate a true reference revolution, however, they must consider transformation that is broader than generational differences or technological advances. Dismissing downward-spiraling reference trends as merely generational effects is irresponsible. Discussion about generational change too often encourages a dismissive, "those kids" mentality. While there are undoubtedly generational issues facing the library, this article highlights opportunities afforded by a more significant change that extends beyond generational issues. Technological change is also important, but technology alone does not hold the solution to increasing use of our services, and reference librarians are not traditionally systems experts. Reference departments often have neither the skill nor the responsibility to make immediate, large-scale technological improvements. Instead of focusing primarily on generational and technological issues, we need to examine the heightened importance of information, the increased demand for online information, and the shifting perceptions of our patrons in a context that takes a much broader view than generational differences or technological advances.
New ideas and experiments in reference services should be based on theories that describe our patrons and their environment. Societal transformation has more immediate relevance to reference services than technological advancement. Serving people is the core mission of the reference department. Theories of societal transformation--specifically information society theory and postmodernism--clarify the changing nature of information and examine the society and culture of the people we serve in academic libraries.
Together, information society theory and postmodernism offer insight about our patrons and provide a theoretical foundation for re-envisioning reference services. Simply put, the information society is a society completely transformed by information and information technologies. Information society theory goes beyond technological advancements and postulates a world that uses and creates information in profound new ways. In one sense, information becomes ubiquitous, but information also becomes commodified and, for those who control it, a source of power. Postmodernism is the cultural landscape of the information society. Postmodernists celebrate differences and relativism relativism
Any view that maintains that the truth or falsity of statements of a certain class depends on the person making the statement or upon his circumstances or society. Historically the most prevalent form of relativism has been See also ethical relativism. , and distrust authority and order. They believe universal truth cannot be attained, for one person's truth will never be valid to everyone. These theories offer obvious challenges to reference service. If information is viewed as power, and expertise and classification schemes are suspect, how should reference services reposition themselves? How can we encourage patrons to use library and reference services in light of their postmodern sensibilities and the ubiquity of information? Information society theory and postmodernism can pinpoint challenges and offer concrete advice for re-envisioning reference services in the academic library, including traditional reference work and formal library instruction.
Societal Transformation: The Information Society and the Postmodern
The information society opens up new opportunities that may allow us to reverse the downward trends in use of reference services. But first we must acknowledge societal transformation and understand its implications. It may seem counter-intuitive to librarians that the movement into the information society would draw patrons away from the library, but in a society where so much information is easily available, the library can no longer claim a unique role as the portal to all knowledge. Rather than wait in breathless anticipation for the warm embrace of the coming societal transformation, libraries must transform right along with society or be left behind.
Theories of the information society and postmodernism attempt to explain this transformation. According to according to
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.
2. In keeping with: according to instructions.
3. Frank Webster, there are many different conceptions of the information society, but similarities exist. The central theme of all information society conceptions is that the flow of information has been transformed and is all-transforming. The information society emerges as advancements in information and communication technologies fundamentally change the way we live, make money, and share and create information. In addition to espousing different perspectives on the information society, theorists debate whether these changes in society constitute a total transformation or a gradual transition. Whether society is changing fundamentally or not, the very emergence of information society theory is a reaction and attempt to explain rapid and broad societal change.
The information society is known by different names: the post-industrial society, the network society, the information age, etc. These names indicate varying conceptions of a society transformed by information. In this article, "information society" is used as an umbrella for all the different conceptions. The interpretation of these theories is also a distillation: definitions that help re-envision reference services in this age are offered, but there is no attempt to give an exhaustive explanation of either information society theory or postmodernism.
The information society is identified by the shift from industry to an information/service- oriented labor market labor market A place where labor is exchanged for wages; an LM is defined by geography, education and technical expertise, occupation, licensure or certification requirements, and job experience and the prevalence of information communication technologies. The theoretical origins of the information society stem from labor analysis in the mid-20th century. No longer was industrialization industrialization
Process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant. The changes that took place in Britain during the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and 19th century led the way for the early industrializing nations of western Europe and the driving force of the markets as it had been since the Industrial Revolution. Daniel Bell For the minimal techno artist, see .
Daniel Bell (born 10 May 1919 in New York) is a sociologist and a professor emeritus at Harvard University. He is also a director of Suntory Foundation and a scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. used findings of labor analysis to identify this discontinuity dis·con·ti·nu·i·ty
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1. Lack of continuity, logical sequence, or cohesion.
2. A break or gap.
3. Geology A surface at which seismic wave velocities change. and conceptualized the "post-industrial society," in which the information and service markets predominate. Fritz Machlup Fritz Machlup (December 15, 1902 – January 30, 1983) was an Austrian-American economist. He was notable for being one of the first economists to examine knowledge as an economic resource.
Born in Wiener-Neustadt, he earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna. also recognized the growing importance of information in the economy, when, in the 1950s and 1960s, he identified a trend in labor away from industry and towards information. This shift in the economy signified not only the increased importance and value of information, but also the emergence of a new society.
Information and communication technologies, which speed up the pace and increase the quantity of information sharing See data conferencing. , have been described as harbingers of societal development by Dordick and Wang. According to Webster, some theorists have asserted that "such a [massive] volume of technological innovations must lead to a reconstruction of the social world because its impact is so profound" (Webster 9). In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke"
put differently , technological developments, such as the Internet, cell phones, and PDAs, have directly and inevitably led to the emergence of the information society.
Information saturates the information society. Perhaps the best example of this is the cable news show: the anchor tells you the news, the graphic or video to the left of her head further explains or represents the story, and news tickers at the bottom provide the day's other headlines and financial market information. Information is thrown at the viewer in every possible way: every inch of the screen is used to convey news. And this information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. is not limited to television. Information society members are surrounded by unsolicited information--from advertisements on billboards and in buses to the flat screen displays and maps in the student center to junk mail See spam and junk faxes. and spam. The prevalence of information also makes it easier for library patrons to locate needed information. To find answers to their questions, information society citizens have many options, including desktop access, cell phones, and PDAs. As a result, the library does not have a monopoly on fact finding. Patrons no longer contact the reference desk with simple factual queries because they can locate much of this information on their own, often by consulting the Internet. In addition, because there is so much easily accessible information in the information society, information seekers feel confident without library assistance.
Information society theory raises an interesting question: is the current societal transformation moving us from the Industrial Age and into the Information Age? Not all scholars agree that an entirely new society is emerging; some believe that the changes occurring do not constitute a revolutionary break with industrialization, but are part of a natural progression. Nevertheless, there is agreement that the current importance and prevalence of information is a relatively new development. The trend towards prominence of information may be viewed as revolutionary or evolutionary, but either way scholars agree that information is playing a larger role in shaping society.
Postmodernism, like information society theory, is a complex field with many different conceptions that are too numerous to discuss exhaustively here. Postmodernism is the cultural backdrop for the information society. It can be considered an artistic movement--one that breaks with modernism. Or postmodernism (or postmodernity) can be seen as a larger movement that breaks with modernity and rejects theories of the Enlightenment. This article does not aim to define postmodernism perfectly, but to use aspects of postmodern theory that will help to re-imagine reference services.
Jean-Francois Lyotard examines the cultural dimension of the information society and refers to the "condition of knowledge" as postmodern (xxiii). He roughly defines postmodernism as a rejection of grand narratives and claims it is the cultural equivalent of the post-industrial society (aka the information society). Lyotard believes that there is no universal truth to be discovered; one person's truth does not necessarily hold true for another person. There is no singular truth but only multiple truths. Like Lyotard, David Harvey David Harvey is the name of:
- David Harvey (footballer) (born 1948)
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- David Harvey (statistician) (born 1928)
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The quality or condition of being other or different, especially if exotic or strange: "We're going to see in Europe ... ." Postmodernism offers a worldview world·view
n. In both senses also called Weltanschauung.
1. The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.
2. A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group. that emphasizes the individual and celebrates relativism.
Libraries should be particularly concerned with postmodernism's hostility towards "anything which smacks of arrangements ordered by groups" and "judgments from anyone on high" (Webster 233). Classification schemes are seen as disingenuous dis·in·gen·u·ous
1. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who ... exemplified ... in the postmodern view. Not only are the Library of Congress classification Library of Congress Classification
or LC Classification
System of library organization developed during the reorganization of the U.S. Library of Congress. numbers imperfect, the entire system is dishonest in the eyes of the postmodernist. The complete world of knowledge will never fit tidily into our fabricated fab·ri·cate
tr.v. fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates
1. To make; create.
2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: organizational schemes. We are trying to impose the grand narrative of organization on our varied resources. Through its rigid classification system, the library imposes its privileged understanding onto all knowledge and inadvertently creates an image that is decidedly un-postmodern and therefore distasteful to members of the information society. Because they celebrate relativism and reject universal truth, postmodernists also suspect the notion of an expert. How can experts assume to know what is right for all people if there is no body of independent, universal truth from which they manifest their expertise? Librarians must recast re·cast
tr.v. re·cast, re·cast·ing, re·casts
1. To mold again: recast a bell.
2. themselves without espousing our expertness, without claiming that we know the only correct way to conduct information seeking Information seeking is the process or activity of attempting to obtain information in both human and technological contexts. Information seeking is related to, but yet different from, information retrieval (IR). .
Societal transformation, as seen in theories of the information society and postmodernism, examines movement not only in labor trends and technological developments, but also in culture. The economy has become more dependent on information, information and communication technologies have become more prevalent, and postmodernism has emerged and flourished in this environment. All of these factors should be considered when rethinking reference and instruction in academic libraries.
Traditionally, reference work depends on patrons approaching librarians. Students, faculty, and other users must actively seek reference help. It is much more common now, however, for patrons to seek answers from the Internet, rather than approaching a reference librarian. The web is many things a good library ought to be: confidential, non-judgmental, providing easy access to a wealth of uncensored information, and offering a creative and inspirational space. In the age of the web, reference librarians are less frequently approached with simple reference queries because Google or Wikipedia can often answer such questions not only quickly and effectively, but also comfortably.
Librarians need to avoid the harsh assumption that lazy patrons are simply fleeing the reference desk for easy answers on the Net. If we examine this behavior in context of the information society, the abandonment of the reference desk becomes more than laziness. As one of the transforming technologies of the information society, the Internet has changed the flow of information, and this has undoubtedly affected the information seeking behavior of our patrons. The ubiquity of the Internet has affected not only how our patrons use (or do not use) the library, but also how they conceive of Verb 1. conceive of - form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?"
envisage, ideate, imagine the library and information, and perhaps more importantly, how they conceive of themselves. The library is no longer viewed as the sole keeper of all information. Rather than requesting library assistance or even seeking out library resources, college students typically begin their information searches using a search engine (De Rosa and Cantrell 1-7). Holliday and Li explain that, largely due to the influence of the Internet, students "expect to be independent in the [research] process and do not seek help from librarians" (364). By using the Internet, patrons, especially students, have become convinced that most information is easy to locate and available freely online. And because so many queries can be answered quickly online, patrons feel ashamed if they cannot locate answers on their own. The ease and convenience of the Internet convinces our patrons that they are skilled information seekers. Thus, it is important to examine not only the fact that people do not consider the library as the portal to information in the information society but also the reality that patrons judge themselves to be capable information seekers. This, coupled with prevalent postmodern mistrust of the "establishment," can increase reluctance to seek library assistance.
While the Internet boosts students' search confidence, the library often has the opposite effect. Using library resources to obtain satisfactory results requires more finesse than using Internet search engines, and most library systems lack the simplicity and intuitiveness of the online search box. Our libraries, instead of offering simplicity, often feature search tools that can be manipulated to create precise searches. But while librarians see power in our database and catalog options (such as Boolean operators, truncation, and multiple search boxes), patrons see obstructions. And when our self-confident patrons fail in their searches for academic information, they are left feeling ashamed, confused, and, above all, frustrated with the library.
In addition to the frustration that users experience, cumbersome library systems perpetuate the perception that the library and librarians desire to repress re·press
1. To hold back by an act of volition.
2. To exclude something from the conscious mind. information rather than to disseminate it. In the postmodern view, librarianship has "become a discourse of control rather than of liberation" (Muddiman 7). This issue of image and perception is not insignificant given that didactic di·dac·tic
Of or relating to medical teaching by lectures or textbooks as distinguished from clinical demonstration with patients. , institution-imposed control is contemptible con·tempt·i·ble
1. Deserving of contempt; despicable.
2. Obsolete Contemptuous.
con·tempt in the postmodern information society. Thus, the library offends postmodern sensibilities when it appears to hide information. At least symbolically, the library is seen as suppressing what the information society and postmodernism value most: information. Our opaque library systems are hampering access, resulting in a distasteful, decidedly un-postmodern image of the library. We cannot afford to broadcast this negative symbol of the library in the information society.
Libraries are experimenting with new kinds of catalogs and interfaces that might work well in the information society (for example, faceted catalogs, catalogs with tagging capabilities, and meta search engines). In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified"
meantime, meanwhile , there are many approaches reference librarians can take until these tools reach their full potential and are available to all libraries. Some reference departments are experimenting with popular and free web sites to attract students. These sites include social bookmarking Ranking a Web site by users who like the content rather than by the total number of links to the site. Social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us) let users tag their favorite sites with key words and post them for others to see. See folksonomy and page ranking. and networking spaces, as well as wikis and blogs. We must reach out to students where they are and be a part of their wired, information-saturated landscape if we are to help them navigate it.
There is some disagreement among librarians concerning these technologies, particularly the library's role in social networking See social networking site.
social networking - social network sites and Wikipedia. Many heated listserv discussions have percolated over these two online phenomena. Some librarians consider social networking sites outside the realm of the library. These are social spaces, after all, and does an authority figure like the library really belong in a space such as Facebook? But perhaps the problem is our image rather than our involvement in social networking spaces. While these spaces can be useful for communicating with students, social networking sites can also help us shed the library's stuffy image and cater to postmodern sensibility. Social networking sites offer libraries an online space in which we can interact with members of the information society in a playful, non-authoritarian way.
Wikipedia is a similarly hot issue in the library world. Because this encyclopedia relies on thousands of anonymous contributors to create articles, some librarians have been wary of it. Rather than fighting it, librarians should work with Wikipedia to create a better library image and even increase traffic to our library resources. The University of Washington Libraries The University of Washington Libraries are among the largest academic research libraries in North America and winner of the 2004 ACRL "Excellence in Academic Libraries Award". They are located in the state of Washington, USA. has used Wikipedia to locate (or create) articles related to their library's collections and add links to their digital collections (Lally and Dunford). By embedding links to library resources--especially digital collections--in related Wikipedia articles, we can not only increase traffic to library sites but also enrich the information available on Wikipedia.
Understanding patrons' degree of interconnection in their current information environment is only one aspect of necessary change in reference services. Librarians must keep in mind the cultural context of our students, who view the expert with suspicion, when working with patrons at the reference desk. Also, members of the information society are likely to have extensive experience with the web, and we must acknowledge this. A tactic of the reference interview is to ask patrons what strategies they have already used, and this becomes even more important in the information society. Our patrons have been searching online for years, so to assume they know nothing about information seeking is offensive and naive. Giving these patrons detailed instructions that directly contradict what they have been doing for years is not going to help them or our image. Rather, we must encourage and acknowledge the benefits of experimentation with library tools and demonstrate our appreciation for learning from our patrons' approaches to searching. We must also keep in mind that their online searching experience might differ from ours. In the fragmented postmodern world where diversity and contradictions are celebrated, differences do not make either librarians or patrons wrong. Instead, by pointing out the differences between the search strategies of the librarian and patron, the postmodern citizen can celebrate diversity and appreciate the contradictions encountered in the information seeking process.
Librarians must also be willing to experiment creatively with ways to promote the library and librarians. Libraries can interact playfully online (with social networking sites and wikis), at home in the library building, and in other settings around campus. Reference departments have experimented with roving librarians and combining or dissolving static service desks. In our traditional practice we relied on patrons approaching us, but in order for them to approach they need to know what we offer and what to expect. The reference librarian should play the "non-expert" who provides research help and shares professional knowledge with the patron "in a relational, interdependent, and non-hierarchical manner" (Stover 292). Rather than acting as experts to whom all patrons should defer, librarians should serve as helpful guides and fellow explorers.
Fostering information literacy among students requires leaning into the chaos of the current information landscape. In a recent Pew Internet survey, leading thinkers revealed grave concerns about the chaotic nature of online information (Anderson and Rainie). While concern is warranted, we cannot allow our fear to prevent us from promoting information literacy. Reference librarians tend to direct people away from chaos and toward our subject-specific databases, our lovingly maintained reference collections, and our carefully-crafted catalogs. While this can no doubt help patrons, especially with their academic research, guiding students away from chaos and to tools to which they will not have lifelong access contradicts the goals of information literacy and undermines mastery of important skills in patrons' lives. Library instruction should help students develop lifelong information literacy skills. Knowing how to use databases will not make you information literate, and avoiding chaos does not help you harness the power of information. Instead of guiding patrons in an open-ended exploration through the universe of information, too often the library plays the part of the overprotective o·ver·pro·tect
tr.v. o·ver·pro·tect·ed, o·ver·pro·tect·ing, o·ver·pro·tects
To protect too much; coddle: overprotected their children. parent. By acknowledging and employing the chaos of the Internet in library instruction, we can encourage information literacy while embracing postmodernism. Information literacy is about exploration, not information control. It is about learning skills and ways of thinking, not particular tools.
We can embrace the chaos of the information universe by adopting new technologies such as social bookmarking, wikis, blogs, and video sharing See video sharing site. sites to support our teaching. Students often already know how to use and manipulate these technologies, but they may lack the skills to interpret the information that they retrieve critically. How do people share information? How does the medium change the content? Who will save this information? Is it important? Web-based technologies can be used in activities in class or to spur class discussions based on these questions. Librarians can use Wikipedia in library instruction sessions to initiate discussion and debate over the nature of information, truth, and reality on the web. For example, in an introductory composition class, I collaborated with an instructor to create a lesson plan that uses Wikipedia as a topic selection tool. In order to find a topic for a persuasive paper, students are instructed to search for topics of interest in Wikipedia and explore the discussion behind the encyclopedic en·cy·clo·pe·dic
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an encyclopedia.
2. Embracing many subjects; comprehensive: "an ignorance almost as encyclopedic as his erudition" entry. Each Wikipedia article includes additional information in the form of a discussion page and an article history page. These pages detail what changes have been made to the article, why these changes have been made, and future questions the article should explore. Students must consider what the discussion sections for their articles reveal not only about their topics, but also about the nature of information on the web. Taking this "meta" view and looking behind the scenes in Wikipedia invites students to think critically about their topic in the context of a familiar website.
By examining technologies patrons often use, we can widen the scope of information literacy beyond library databases and catalogs. Information literacy as a lifelong skill must be integrated into the daily lives of our students. Curriculum-integration of library instruction is useful but remains insufficient. When librarians can also relate information literacy skills to everyday experience and not just academics, students will become truly information literate. For instance, in a class that requires students to research and apply for a scholarship, grant or job, I lead students through a discussion on managing one's online presence. Students are asked to think critically about the information they broadcast online through sites such as Facebook or personal blogs, and consider that this information is available not only to friends, but also possible employers. A variation of this discussion is a "reverse introduction" which works well especially if the librarian has a fairly common name. I start class by giving students my name and asking them to look me up in Google. Then, rather than introduce myself, I let the class introduce me based on the information they find online. The introductions are usually partly accurate and partly laughable. (One class informed me that I was a competitive racquet ball player.) We then launch into a discussion on the nature of searching, search term selection, and online identity.
These are examples of effective library instruction activities that encourage experimentation and playfulness in class. Postmodern students do not appreciate one-size-fits-all instructions. Jason L. Frand suggests encouraging a trial-and-error approach to information seeking (17-18). Today's patrons, especially those familiar with video gaming video gaming
1. Gambling by means of interactive games of chance played on a video screen.
2. The playing of video games. , are used to jumping in and exploring while learning from their mistakes. Library instruction sessions should facilitate such experimentation and allow for such failures, which can become teachable moments in discussion about what happens and why. While it is tempting to lecture students on all the services and opportunities afforded by the library, this approach does not encourage genuine learning. More effective library instruction allows students to explore, discover, and evaluate resources on their own with guidance from the librarian, the instructor, and their peers. Library instructors need to build on the strengths of the students, helping them expand their search abilities and develop a critical eye. This method suits not only how our information society patrons learn, but also helps the library and librarians to cultivate an image that is more postmodern and less didactic.
Society is changing and we may be entering a radically new era--the information society. Libraries must examine this societal transformation, which is broader than generational differences or technological developments, and respond to it. Exploring the information society helps to explain downward trends in use of reference services and to identify techniques to reverse these trends. Postmodernism--the cultural side of the information society--can help academic reference and instruction librarians reframe Re`frame´
v. t. 1. To frame again or anew. their services to be more attractive to today's patrons. Studying the information society and postmodernism together will help librarians to better understand and serve our patrons. Though we have used technological advancements by creating online catalogs and databases and embracing electronic journals and books, we have failed to adapt and make our ideology and culture more inclusive. Rather, libraries forced the new technologies to fit our old pre-information society conceptions of information and organization. We must adjust our services in reference and instruction to be more accessible to the postmodern information society worldview. To do this, libraries and librarians must be seen as liberating information rather than controlling it.
Libraries should emphasize the values that we share with the information society and postmodernism. Two values in particular seem nicely suited to the library: the importance of information and the celebration of differences. Libraries have long recognized the importance of preserving information, but even more importantly, our primary mission is to disseminate it. Librarians must make patrons aware that library resources are collected in order to share different opinions, different theories, and different truths. Reference services are the frontlines in academic libraries and can help promote common values. Through serving patrons as guides and experimenting with new attitudes and lessons in library instruction, we can recreate the library as the "bibliotheque fantastique:" a playful space in which information is unlimited and no single idea dominates (Radford).
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Thompson, Bruce, Colleen col·leen
An Irish girl.
[Irish Gaelic cailín, diminutive of caile, girl, from Old Irish. Cook and Martha Kyrillidou. "Library Users' Desires and Tolerances: A LibQUAL+ Study." 10 Jan. 2007. Webster, Frank. Theories of the Information Society. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2002.
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Hello Everyone, I am a new graduate nurse practitioner in the Atlanta area. Graduated Dec 2011, passed both ANCC and AANP 1st wek of April 2012, and just recieved my Georgia NP license. Problem is that eveyone I have applied... Read More
- 0May 6, '12 by srobb11Fayetteville Nurse Practitioner-Piedmont Medical Care Corporation-Immediate Care, Fayetteville GA Job - GA, 30214
Atlanta Acute Care Extender-Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta GA Job - GA, 30301
It doesn't indicate experience is necessary. Good luck.
- 0May 6, '12 by abiagirlnpThank you very much. I will apply now.
- 0May 7, '12 by marinohHi abiagirlnp,
I really wish you good luck in your job searching, and I really empathize with you.
If you don't mind, what NP program did you do, am just curious as I am just applying for the NP programs. I also have pending student loans from my previous Masters and current ABSN, so I have been asking questions as to what NP program I should go for. I am scared of getting additional student loans, and not getting a job afterward.
I am swinging between FNP, ANP and ACNP. What is your take on this, or anyone out there can also advise me on this. Thanks
- 0May 8, '12 by traumaRUs, MSN, APRN, CNS AdminWhat about the hospital system where you worked as an RN?
I know in my area, new grad APN openings are few and far between.
Don't give up!
- 0May 8, '12 by abiagirlnpI am currently talking with my hospital recruiters. They also have a lot of employees (current nurses who also just passed their APN Boards) waiting for the few slots that they will supposedly created in a few months. One of them told me that If I had critical care experience, my situation would have been better, even without experience. I just don't want to leave all my eggs in one basket. It seems like every nurse in my facility is going back to schoolto obtainf their APN. It is a good thing, but at the same time, my area is almost saturated.
- 1May 8, '12 by abiagirlnpI did ANP. I am planning to go back for my Doctorate sometime in the future, but wants to wait to see what ANCC and company wants to do with all the certifications first. From what I have read so far, it seems like every title will come under fire sooner or later. Another questions I want answered is why do I need to spend more money for an education (DSN in this case) that will only add more money to my student loans, and none to my pocket? But, since this is the least of my problems right now, I will try to focus on securing a job first.
- 0May 8, '12 by TinabeanrnAbiagirlnp are you willing to do homecare? Or does it have to be clinic/office?
- 1May 10, '12 by abiagirlnpNo, it does not have to be in a clinic/office. I will be more than willing to do homecare. I did it as an RN and really liked it. Thank you for caring Tinabeanrn.
- 2May 12, '12 by Mexaricankeep trying!! Don't give up. I just graduated (May 5th), took ANCC 5/10...had a job back in March (so imagine the pressure...lol). Actually had a handful of interviews/job offers. In fact in the past five days I've had two practices send me an email via Indeed telling me they'd like to interview me. Have you posted your resume on Indeed.com??? If not, do so...75% of the contacts I had (interviews & job offers) came from potential employers who contacted me thru Indeed.com, although the position I accepted did not come from there but I had actual offers that started thru Indeed.com...so keep looking...or perhaps start looking differently. hope it helps!
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- 1May 12, '12 by WKShadowRNAbiagirlnp, I used to live in Cobb Co. What a small world. Did you go to high school there.? Good luck on the job hunt. I have no idea what awaits me when it's my turn, but that is at least 3-4 yrs away. There does seem to be a need for FNPs currently so I hope that still applies by then


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Only one team in WNBA history has won four elimination games en route to the league title. That was Seattle in 2004.
Indiana could duplicate that feat this year, though. And who knows, the Fever could face more elimination games in the WNBA Finals against the Lynx.
"Playoffs are another ball game.," Indiana coach Lin Dunn said. "You've got your regular season and then you've got your postseason – once you get to the playoffs, everything goes up a notch. There is a sense of urgency.
"Our players in particular, especially because of our leadership in Katie Douglas, (Tamika) Catchings and (Tammy) Sutton-Brown who have been to the Finals before, they know what it takes to win in the playoffs and they set the tone. I'm not surprised that we're where we are. I thought that if we defended at a high level and did a better job of rebounding that we would have a chance to do exactly what we've done."
Indiana lost the first game in best-of-three series with Atlanta and Connecticut and then won the next two games in each series to advance.
In 2009, the Fever lost to Phoenix 3-2 in the WNBA Finals and have five players from that team and Dunn, in her fourth season as head coach at Indiana.
"We look back on that series and we know that we just missed open shots. We had every opportunity to win a title in '09," Dunn said, "but you have to knock down your open shots. We didn't take care of business at home; we just missed too many shots. That really ended up costing us a championship. This year, some different faces, but we also have the leadership of the players that have been there. We're excited about being in the Finals."
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MIAMI -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says the Miami Dolphins' stadium needs more upgrades if South Florida is to remain competitive in bidding for future Super Bowls.
The 22-year-old stadium underwent $250 million in improvements in 2007 but is still falling behind the competition with new stadiums opening in Dallas, Phoenix, Indianapolis and New York, Goodell said Monday.
Miami will host the Super Bowl for an NFL-record 10th time Feb. 7. Goodell spoke at a kickoff luncheon for the game.
"They've done a great job hosting Super Bowls here in the past," Goodell said. "The key thing is to make sure the stadium is state of the art and that it can compete with the stadiums in some of these other communities. They are moving to another level in some of these stadiums."
Deficiencies with the Dolphins' home include lighting and the location of lower-level seats, which are not close to the playing field. The league doesn't seek a retractable roof, Goodell said.
Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said the franchise is studying possible upgrades. It's unclear whether the team and league will seek public money. Ross said the Dolphins have yet to come up with a cost estimate or a proposed source of funding.
"We're looking at different ideas," Ross said. "We're still in the planning stage, and it's premature to talk about dollars. We know it's hard to put up dollars in South Florida in this economy.
"We're trying to keep it as low as possible and work with the league. We've got to show a package. That's what we're looking to do -- put together a package."
A new stadium isn't being considered, Ross said.
The Pro Bowl will be played in Miami for the first time Jan. 31. Goodell supported experimenting with a new location and schedule slot for the all-star game, which in recent years has been played in Hawaii the week after the Super Bowl.
"If this doesn't work out, it will be my fault," Goodell said.
On other subjects, the commissioner said:
• Players perform in a "very safe environment," thanks in part to recent stricter league guidelines regarding concussions. "We're all learning more about concussions, the medical community as well as the NFL. We've been studying this for 15 years and have changed our policies as the medical science becomes more advanced. Everyone is treating this more conservatively, as they should. It's a serious injury, and you have to be careful. You want to make sure it heals properly."
• Negotiations on a new labor agreement are progressing slowly, with another meeting scheduled this week. "The good news is we're talking. It's pretty clear that things don't happen until you get your back up against the wall a little bit. I would expect as we get a little closer to an uncapped season [in 2010] that things will be a little more focused."
• Despite the league's plan to cut a $100 million annual supplemental revenue-sharing program that subsidizes lower-revenue franchises, teams will still spend competitively. "We have great revenue sharing in the league. We have a number of systems we have collectively bargained that will ensure that."
• He doesn't expect the overtime format to be altered, despite many suggested changes. "I actually think the overtime system has worked pretty well for the NFL."
• Benefits for former players will be improved. "We need to do more, and we will do more."
Rodney Barreto, chairman of the South Florida Super Bowl Host Committee, said the need to upgrade the Dolphins' stadium is a community issue.
"The community has to come together and say, 'Look, is this important for us? Do we want to keep doing this?' " Barreto said. "Football is going to be much better if we can be a football-only stadium."
Founding Dolphins owner Joe Robbie paid to build the stadium at a cost of $115 million, and it opened in 1987 as a multi-use complex. It has been the Florida Marlins' home since their first game in 1993, and they're scheduled to move into their new ballpark in 2012.
"With the Marlins leaving in a couple of years, there's an opportunity to make this truly a football stadium and make it a great facility that can host multiple Super Bowls," Goodell said.
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