[Lib-helig-l] Scoop.it Daily Summary - Announcing the New Librarianship Master Class Online #MOOC

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Hi nikki!   These are the top stories on the topics you follow. (See all)       Scooped by Karen du Toit onto The Information Professional Announcing the New Librarianship Master Class Online #MOOC From quartz.syr.edu - June 26, 5:33 PM About the Class Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. New Librarianship recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities. Join iSchool faculty for this online course that provides a foundation for practicing librarians and library science students in new librarianship. It builds on The Atlas of New Librarianship, the 2012 ABC CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature and seeks to generate discussion about the future direction of the profession. Coming in July The course will be offered in a guided mode from July 8 to August 4. After that month the class will be opened online, but CEU or academic credit options will no longer be available. Karen du Toit's insight: New Librarianship MOOC - for professional development!

Nikki Crowster

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