Wednesday, October 17, 2007

young Librarians in the Chronicle of Higher Education

What I like most about this article, which is largely a response to the New York Times article from the not so distant past on Hip Librarians, is the thoughtfulness of the process and the simplicity of bringing together a bunch of very very smart folks and allowing them to speak for themselves. Instead of manipulating quotes and sound bites into a pre-formed article, author Scott Carlson provides the forum, some good, open questions, and lets the words and formed thoughts roll. And, bonus, some audio as well.

(and don't it feel good to be able to link to the NYT?)

A vision of students today

from the Kansas State University Digital Ethnography folks, another brilliantly conceived, planned, and executed video.