Facebook groups for library professionals

Spent a couple minutes adding myself to Facebook groups for library professionals. Thanks to Jess Bacon (5 Minute Librarian) with Patrick Sweeney, Laura Hollister and Austin Stroud for compiling the “big HUGE list.”

Seeking 15 to 20 more hours of work each week

With part-time jobs as Library Assistant at an elementary school and Administrative Coordinator for the Religious Explorations program at a local church, I work 25 hours per week. I am immediately available to work afternoons/evenings and weekends, 15 to 20 hours per week, and will be available to work full-time hours when school is on summer break.

‘The End of College’ by Kevin Carey

In an essay printed March 5 by the New York Times, Kevin Carey writes about the effect that “open badges” or low-cost online degrees will have upon four-year colleges’ current “near-monopoly upon verifiable academic achievement.”

“Free online courses won’t revolutionize education until there is a parallel system of free or low-fee credentials, not controlled by traditional colleges, that leads to jobs.”

Carey’s essay was adapted from his book, The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere (Riverhead Books, 2015).

Pizza dinner was on Friends of the Library

Our dinner from The Great American Pizza Company​ was courtesy of Friends of the Library. For each reading log filled out and completed for Jackson County Library Services’ 2015 “Winter Reads” program, we were entered in a prize drawing and I won a gift certificate to the restaurant of my choice. (I could also select a free “gently used” book for each reading log turned in. In that sense, everybody won.)

Yarn-bombed bicycle

On Facebook, I accepted an artist’s invitation to post photos of my own art (in a sort of art-sharing chain called the “Facebook Art Challenge”). Today I shared an image about “yarn bombing.”