Comments on: 5 Universal Truths That All Librarians Can Agree Upon Right Now

By: Logo Contest Entry – Andy Woodworth « Libraries and Transliteracy

Logo Contest Entry – Andy Woodworth « Libraries and Transliteracy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:51:14 +0000

[...] by Bobbi Newman on July 29, 2010 Our latest logo contest entry comes from Andy Woodworth. Andy has written about transliteracy several times on his blog Agnostic, [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:17:43 +0000

Sure, go right ahead!

By: Macca

Macca — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:21:31 +0000

Nice article, was curious if you would permit me to link to it in a post im currently writing for my own website?

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:20:47 +0000

I sent an email to you regarding it. But no problem!

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:34:11 +0000

Hi Andy–

I’m getting ready to start teaching a course on information policy. I need a banner for my Blackboard page. I love yours–any way I could “steal” it–with attribution of course?

By: gaik

gaik — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:25:31 +0000

This was refresing and informative.. I will be sharing with district leadership. Thanks

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:01:47 +0000

Melanie I couldn’t agree more. There is a lot of focus on access to the technology, the tools when people talk about the digital divide, but what gets overlooked are the skills. Having access to the internet or technology are important, but the skills to use and the knowledge to use it to get what you need is essential. So many people dismiss libraries being involved with access and training that focus on the internet and technology, they are missing the larger picture. Patrons are looking to us to teach them how to use these tools, how to find the information they need seamlessly across any platform. Pretending we’re just about books or the printed word is failing our patrons. Just as libraries have focused on literacy we now need to expand that focus to transliteracy.

By: Jim Peterson

Jim Peterson — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:13:02 +0000

I’ll be re-tweeting this, as well as remembering these truths in the future. Like ranti said, we are a collection of endpoints — printed, recorded and otherwise — that people seek on a daily basis. Our job is to make that search easier.

As the web site designer/maintainer for the Goodnight Memorial Library, we have incorporated Facebook into our web page via a fanbox, which replaced a static calendar for event information, and have several pages of links to other resources, not necessarily library-related.

As a society, we have talked about being “computer-literate” for the better part of 20 years but are only now seeing the social value and integration of computers into our daily lives. There is a new social class out there, akin to those who have not ever been able to read or write.

By: Andy Woodworth’s 5 Universal Truths That All Librarians Can Agree Upon | Librarian by Day

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:40:58 +0000

[...] Andy has put together a list of 5 Universal Truths That All Librarians Can Agree Upon Right Now. [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:46:18 +0000

You are most welcome!