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From: Meg Kavanagh <kavanagh>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 12:21:22 -0500
druthgo at sonic.net (Ruth I Gordon) wrote:
Mr. Nick C. Carlson with his graceful message about cutting himself off from this list in such a graceful manner: " Take me off of your list!!! I don't want anymore e-mails from this thing!! I only did it for school - so please take me off the list"
tells me a great deal about what is cheerfully called "library education." I am delighted that the training schools insist (I expect) that those who attend sign on for lists. BUT--do they read and learn? How many months will it be before this person is a library director? HUMBUG.
*** Big Grandma,
I'm rising out of lurkdom to agree. I felt mildly dismayed by Mr. Carlson's sign-off message, as well.
That said, I want to tell you about the library education that one can find in Madison, Wisconsin. The school of library and information studies that I graduated from (UW) was filled with reading and learning, in an environment which fosters students' delight in both, as well as generating a kind of philosophy, critical view, and system of ethics I've found to be priceless. Many of us will not forget that we are in our teachers' debt for the gifts they gave us, and that we will use them to the best of our ability. If you're in Madison, the debt is large.
For me, it begins with my mother, (a school library media specialist), and continues to my elementary school library media specialist, Susan Daugherty
(who read plenty of humor to us-- my very favorite being Diana Wynne Jones' talking toffee bars in The Ogre Downstairs), the youth services librarians at Madison Public Library 197593 (and their humor-filled riddle wall), the staff of Pooh Corner Bookstore in Madison (who brought Arnold Lobel to town in 1981, thereby creating insurmountable joy for kids in south central WI), my junior high school reading teacher, Dawn Egan (who mailed my letter to Robert Cormier), to the professional staff at CCBC (I wish every college student could have them on the same floor as their department), to the University of Wisconsin School of Library and Information Studies faculty...
...to Dianne Hopkins (whose syllabus my mother gave me when she was in library school, and I devoured those recommended books, the ones written for me...). Here's some information about Dianne Hopkins: http://www.slis.wisc.edu/people/hopkins/
Dianne Hopkins is retiring from teaching this week. Her students read and learned in library school. I guarantee that. Her contributions to kids and the people who read to them, her support for young adults and the writers who write for them, and the intellectual freedom of all parties involved are eternal.
I write this in an effort to illustrate that, with dedicated professionals influencing students of all ages, one can't help but read and learn. I hope Mr. Carlson was just suffering from pre- or post-finals meltdown, a caustic and grave but thankfully temporary ailment in most cases. I wish he'd have stuck around for the discussion on humor. Some great antidotes to crabbiness have been recommended!
Meg
Received on Fri 10 May 2002 12:21:22 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 12:21:22 -0500
druthgo at sonic.net (Ruth I Gordon) wrote:
Mr. Nick C. Carlson with his graceful message about cutting himself off from this list in such a graceful manner: " Take me off of your list!!! I don't want anymore e-mails from this thing!! I only did it for school - so please take me off the list"
tells me a great deal about what is cheerfully called "library education." I am delighted that the training schools insist (I expect) that those who attend sign on for lists. BUT--do they read and learn? How many months will it be before this person is a library director? HUMBUG.
*** Big Grandma,
I'm rising out of lurkdom to agree. I felt mildly dismayed by Mr. Carlson's sign-off message, as well.
That said, I want to tell you about the library education that one can find in Madison, Wisconsin. The school of library and information studies that I graduated from (UW) was filled with reading and learning, in an environment which fosters students' delight in both, as well as generating a kind of philosophy, critical view, and system of ethics I've found to be priceless. Many of us will not forget that we are in our teachers' debt for the gifts they gave us, and that we will use them to the best of our ability. If you're in Madison, the debt is large.
For me, it begins with my mother, (a school library media specialist), and continues to my elementary school library media specialist, Susan Daugherty
(who read plenty of humor to us-- my very favorite being Diana Wynne Jones' talking toffee bars in The Ogre Downstairs), the youth services librarians at Madison Public Library 197593 (and their humor-filled riddle wall), the staff of Pooh Corner Bookstore in Madison (who brought Arnold Lobel to town in 1981, thereby creating insurmountable joy for kids in south central WI), my junior high school reading teacher, Dawn Egan (who mailed my letter to Robert Cormier), to the professional staff at CCBC (I wish every college student could have them on the same floor as their department), to the University of Wisconsin School of Library and Information Studies faculty...
...to Dianne Hopkins (whose syllabus my mother gave me when she was in library school, and I devoured those recommended books, the ones written for me...). Here's some information about Dianne Hopkins: http://www.slis.wisc.edu/people/hopkins/
Dianne Hopkins is retiring from teaching this week. Her students read and learned in library school. I guarantee that. Her contributions to kids and the people who read to them, her support for young adults and the writers who write for them, and the intellectual freedom of all parties involved are eternal.
I write this in an effort to illustrate that, with dedicated professionals influencing students of all ages, one can't help but read and learn. I hope Mr. Carlson was just suffering from pre- or post-finals meltdown, a caustic and grave but thankfully temporary ailment in most cases. I wish he'd have stuck around for the discussion on humor. Some great antidotes to crabbiness have been recommended!
Meg
Received on Fri 10 May 2002 12:21:22 PM CDT
