Comments on: Food for Thought at R.I.T. : An Interview with Jon Jiras http://librarygarden.net/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/ An ongoing conversation among librarians with differing perspectives (public, academic, school, consortial, youth) but one shared goal: ensuring the health and relevance of libraries. [insert your own gardening metaphor here] Fri, 17 May 2013 18:44:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous http://librarygarden.net/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2679 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:47:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2679 The little wow gold prince was at first quite frightened at the bird, who was like a giant, compared buy cheap wow gold to such a delicate little creature as himself; but cheapest wow gold when he saw Tiny, he was delighted, and thought her the Buy Wow Gold prettiest little maiden he had ever seen. He took wow gold cheap the gold crown from his head, and placed it on hers, and asked her name, and if she would be his wife, and queen over all theflowers.”Farewell, farewell,” said the swallow, with buy warhammer gold a heavy heart as he left wow power leveling the warm countries to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The wow7gold swallow sang, “Tweet, tweet,” and from his song came the
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2008 Update

-Jon Jiras
RIT

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]]> By: Erin http://librarygarden.net/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2492 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:59:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2492 I just wanted to say that Food For Thought 2008 is happening now – as I type this, I can hear the gong from the Lighning Talks. I am a staff member at RIT and have just blogged about my session here: http://www.libraryscenester.wordpress.com

Kudos to the RIT Food For Thought team! :)

]]> By: Cynthia http://librarygarden.net/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2486 Fri, 30 May 2008 15:54:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2486 Terrific idea! I hope we do this at Princeton Public Library. This really helps to deal with the age old issue of so much technology, so little time!

]]> By: pollyalida http://librarygarden.net/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2484 Fri, 30 May 2008 01:37:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2484 WOW! What an incredible program. Kudos to RIT staff for such a great event. Makes me want to masquerade as an RIT staff member and attend the program. It’s been a long time since I worked in an academic library, but I can concur, staff are a often a very underserved group. Thanks to you and Jon for sharing so much detailed information. What a great model.

]]> By: Janie L. Hermann http://librarygarden.net/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2483 Thu, 29 May 2008 23:59:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2483 Update: The yellow text is gone. Hope this solves the problem for bloglines and other rss readers.

Thanks for the feedback Amy. I agree that this is an idea worth adapting and “stealing”. I am envisioning a Tech Day for the community at PPL and I can definitely envision this working on other campuses.

While I was doing my MLIS I conducted an study as part of a course requirement and it was on campus staff (non-faculty) use of the library. My study, which was eventually published in College and Research Libraries, clearly indicated that campus staff are underserved and that academic libraries need to find a way to improve outreach. Days like this could go a long way to improving library use for all staff.

]]> By: Amy Kearns http://librarygarden.net/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2482 Thu, 29 May 2008 23:11:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2482 WOW! I have to say I am honestly blown away by the concept, the execution, the success and the information provided!

What a great idea! Of course, I am already thinking of what could be done with this – as the Program Coordinator for the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, my wheels are spinning! ;-)

I am so excited by what you have done and so happy that it is clearly something that is needed and wanted and has been such a success for you!

This event not only provides the needed additional training and information, but also really allows the whole community to come together, and allows the community to have a personal interaction with library staff – something that in some cases might not ever happen!

I’m all for helping the community the library is in while also having the added benefit of helping to promote the skills and value of that library in a win-win situation for all!!!!

KUDOS to you! Is this available to “steal” with credit, like Helene Blowers’ Learning 2.0 program?

Thanks so much for sharing!!!!!

]]> By: Janie L. Hermann http://librarygarden.net/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2481 Thu, 29 May 2008 22:42:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/food-for-thought-at-rit-an-interview-with-jon-jiras/#comment-2481 My deepest apologies for the yellow font being problematic. I am trying to fix it, but blogger has added so much code to the post that it is near impossible to undo. I have tried to fix the html manually, but it is not working. I will keep trying. We have used yellow font on LG before. I think this is a practice we will need to stop. Thanks so much for the feedback.

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