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Question: "Where are libraries headed and what is making them go that way?"

Primary Sources: Im hungry, really really hungry. I will put out surveys and have interviews with librarians.

Secondary Sources: I found some books on innovations being made in libraries. I consider those secondary to the interviews.

Blogity Blog

Blog, Blog, Blog, Blog, Blog, Blog, Blog, Blog, Blogity Blog.

I wanna know what does the word "blog" really mean, where it came from, and why we do it. I suppose thats a research project of it's own, but I'm not writing a paper on it. I'm just saying it.

Blogity, Blogity, Blogity, Blogity, Blogity, Blogity, Blogity, Blog.

ToLater

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Things for research

This is the site where I got all the sites below
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=library+innovations&hl=en&lr=

These are the sites from above and I don't want to go on to infinaty by copy pasteing them to this blog.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=225527&pageindex=1

http://www3.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521623612

http://forskningsbasen.deff.dk/ddf/rec.external?id=auc87561

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED367317&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&accno=ED367317

What I have, What is next

Progress Report.
I know that I need tons of statistics and first hand interviews. To find out where libraries are headed, I should research new ideas and new stratagies that are coming into libraries and changing them. Basically what I am saying is that I have just figured out what I need to find, and I'm not sure on how to find it. Wish me happy hunting.

To Do List.
*Create surveys and polls and send them out.
*Make an appointment with librarian in the college and the public libraries
-Ask about library budgets and new innovations
*Research new methods and innovations circulating libraries.

Site for Research

http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html

I wouldn't use this site as direct reference, for it is way too old. But the links It has may be helpful.

http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/1/1

*I'm not very sure on what I can get for research. I'm not sure on how to get research. I want to find statistics about library funding and a national survey info would be nice, but I don't know how to find it.

Found this book, it should help
http://library.ilcso.illinois.edu/elm/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CNT=20&Search_Arg=Redesigning+Library+Services%3A+A+Manifesto.&Search_Code=TALL

This one too
http://puboff.lis.uiuc.edu/catalog/lancaster.html

Purpose and Audience

Topic: How will digitalization of books effect libraries in the future?

Purpose: I want to convince people that the of digitalization of books to bring the end of the ink and paper world is a bad thing, and it should not be allowed. I want to see if people will let digitalization of books destroy libraries in the future. I want to inverstigate whether people think the digitalization of books will result in the disappearance of physical books or not.

Audience: I would like to address everyone, because it takes everyone to stop the end of libraries. Academically, peers, teachers, and librarians, anyone.

Three questions

1. What are libraries doing today that is moving them to digitalization?

2. What does society think about the topic?

3. How would digitalization effect libraries in the future?

Open Ended Question

Will books become digital, therefore making libraries obsolete, and will society allow it?

Topic Questions for Research Paper

1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your research project.

The problem of the future threat of digitalization of books and the written word, and therefore the end of books.

2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic?

I am a bibliophile, I love books as books. I am a bookworm; I love to read books for their stories. I want to be, and will be, a librarian one day, and without books, that’s kind of impossible.

3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic?

I do not think it will happen and I don’t want it to happen, but it might. I just don’t want a Fahrenheit 451 on our hands. I know I’ll be one of those who is either hiding my books in an air vent or being one of those outcast from civilization (if you can call it that).

4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic?

I know that more and more libraries are cataloging digitally (and I’m not saying that’s bad). I know that over a million books are printed daily (I’m not sure about exact numbers). I know that librarian positions will be numerous when I am looking for a job, although I don’t know exactly why.

5. What are your main questions about this topic? What are you most curious about?

What do people think about digitalization of books and the loss of libraries? Will digitalization happen and how will it happen.

6. Within what scholarly discipline (such as history, biology, psychology) do you expect to do most of your research? How does this discipline approach or study this topic?

History for what has happened in the past years ago and yesterday. Culture, to find out what people think about this and if the general opinion points to what may or may not happen in the future.

7. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews
and/or observations)?

I could post surveys, send e-mails, and post polls on all the sights I am registered on. I will try to get as wide a polling area as possible so I do not get a biased poll. If I only ask those in college, I may get only one answer, but if I ask other places like online forums, I may get different answers and different views.

Sinthisis Paper

For all of the children who got A’s and B’s throughout their schooling career, there were even more who were struggling through their C’s, D’s and F’s. Could this possibly show that the A and B students were intelligent and that the C, D, and F student were not? What about the students who have A’s in one subject and D’s in another with B’s and C’s all throughout? These children are obviously not stupid, for they received one or more A’s, but how can they be called Intelligent when they earned a D?
In his work Frames of Mind: the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner gives a reason to this dilemma. He states that there are seven different types of intelligences, not just the one tested for school. He suggests that everybody has one or more of these intelligences and that each one is just as valuable as the other. The first intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence, where a person is able to comprehend works of literature, and write thoughtful and well-organized pieces. These people are usually seen as poets or bookworms. The next intelligence is Musical Intelligence where one is very fluent in the art of music. These people are able to understand the concept of writing music and playing instruments. Logical- Mathematical Intelligence follows, with people who excel in straight-forward thinking. This is where things are the same no matter what. Next is Spatial Intelligence which is so difficult to explain that Gardner used visual examples to explain this category. If one is able to understand the relationship of space between objects and know when an object has changed when compared to other, similar looking objects, the person can be said to have Spatial Intelligence. Those with Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence are simply those who are athletic. People who are very good in sports and are able to play them are in this category. The last intelligence is Personal Intelligence where one is able to read a situation and respond in the appropriate way. Social butterflies and gossips are usually found in this section. After listing and explaining each Intelligence, Gardner explains that a person can have one, many, or all of the Intelligences. One example is a dancer, who needs the skills of Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence to move in the desired way as well as the ability to connect the movement to the rhythms of music, which comes from Musical Intelligence.
Even though many people read his work and agreed full heartedly, several people disagreed with Howard Gardner. One such person is Barbara Osburg. In her opinion piece titled Multiple Intelligence: A New Category of Losers, she explains how many people in the teaching profession have jumped right into this new idea, yet she was skeptical. She stated that even if students can be found to excel in the different groups, they would still be found wanting in the ones they failed. Students would still be separated into “winners and losers”. For example, if a student is a Personal, Musical, and Linguistic intelligent person, they will still be placed in a group who fails in the other categories.
As a response to Osburg’s and others’ comments to his work, Howard Gardner wrote Multiple Intelligences as a Catalyst. In it, he comments on how people have taken his theory to heart and how they have incorporated it into their classrooms. But as a response to Osburg, he claims that she “is completely off the mark” saying that he never had any intention or thoughts on separating students into winners and losers. Gardner suggests that she “has her own axe to grind and is simply using “Multiple Intelligences” theory to do some fresh grinding.”
So if we are to believe this theory of multiple intelligence, how are we to teach students? One way is to have a arsenal of teaching methods, accommodating the different types of intelligences. One method can be found in Gerald Graff’s Hidden Intellectualism, which can accommodate students with the Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence. Graff suggest using a student’s interest in sports to connect the student to school and other intelligences. This method can be used to connect other intelligences to each other, in that a teacher should use a student’s interests to help them see the connection in categories.
The world is full of people with different ideas and views. Arguments and agreements are made daily and all are a result to the differences in intelligences.

The Works I am Useing

Gardner, H. (n.d.). Multiple Intelligences as a Catalyst. Retrieved October 1, 2007, from www.jstor.org: http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030788/03a00080/0?frame=noframe&userID=ce447777@elmhurst.edu/01cc99331600501c8e88b&dpi=3&config=jstor

Osburg, B. (n.d.). Multiple Intelligences: A New Category of Losers. Retrieved October 1, 2007, from www.jstor.org: http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030788/03a00070/0

Gardner, H. (1985). Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers.

Graff, G. (2006). Hidden Intellectualism. In G. G. Birkenstein, They Say, I Say (pp. 142-148). New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

Citations

Gardner, H. (n.d.). Multiple Intelligences as a Catalyst. Retrieved October 1, 2007, from www.jstor.org: http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030788/03a00080/0?frame=noframe&userID=ce447777@elmhurst.edu/01cc99331600501c8e88b&dpi=3&config=jstor

Klein, P. D. (n.d.). A Response to Howard Gardner: Falsifiabiliy, Empirical Evidence, and Pedagogical Usefulness in Educational Psychologies. Retrieved October 1, 2007, from www.jstor.org: http://www.jstor.org/view/03802361/ap050089/05a00090/0

Letters: Winners, Losers, and Multiple Intelligences. (n.d.). Retrieved oCTOBER 1, 2007, from www.jstor.org: http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030790/03a00010/0

Massick, S. (n.d.). Multiple Intelligences or Multilevel Intelligence? Selective Emphasis on Distinctive Properties of Hierarchy: On Gardner's Frames of Mind and Sternburg's Beyond IQ in the Context of Theory and Research on the Structure of Human Abilities. Retrieved october 1, 2007, from www.jstor.org: http://www.jstor.org/view/1047840x/ap050012/05a00210/0

Osburg, B. (n.d.). Multiple Intelligences: A New Category of Losers. Retrieved October 1, 2007, from www.jstor.org: http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030788/03a00070/0

Summary

http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030790/03a00010/0



In this article, written as a response to Barbara Osburg's opinion essay "Multiple Intelligences: A New Catagory of Losers", the author doesn't really, if at all, follow the I say, they say format, and because of that it is hard to pick up and follow what the author is saying. He doesn't give any reason to why he thinks the things he thinks or why the article he is responding to inspired this essay. However, I think he is talking about how learning is messy and not organized and that there needs to be more than what the article he responds to is saying, unfortunatly, he doesn't say what that is.

Sites for paper

http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030788/03a00080/0?frame=noframe&userID=ce447777@elmhurst.edu/01cc99331600501c8e88b&dpi=3&config=jstor

http://www.jstor.org/view/03802361/ap050089/05a00090/0

http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030790/03a00010/0

http://www.jstor.org/view/00138274/ap030788/03a00070/0

http://www.jstor.org/view/1047840x/ap050012/05a00210/0

Frames of Mind: Theory of Multiple Intelligence - Gardner

Beyond IQ, a triarchic theory of human intelligence - Sternberg