How do you handle difficult patrons?

Question:
How do you handle difficult patrons?

library gator

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Where's your palce?

Question:
Where's your palce?

Placeopedia.com -

http://www.placeopedia.com/?5935

I just posted www.fgcu.edu.

Yeh-yeah.

What is beautiful?

Question:
What is beautiful?

 

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How will you act today?

Question:
How will you act today?

Act today …
"If we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is, in itself a marvelous victory"
- Howard Zinn

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How do we think about information?

Question:
How do we think about information? "Conflict of information," conflicting information, information conflict: does the average person think deeply about information? Should they have too?

This morning on NPR I heard another vivid interview. And I paraphrase, “…there’s just a conflict of information from FEMA …”

Let your mind snap upon this profound statement and how well the phrase “conflict of information” describes the overwhelming information overload and Progress Paradox (by Greg Easterbrook) individuals feel today. A quick internet search produces these hit totals for the phrase “conflict of information” :
1000+ on google,
600+ on yahoo,
500+ on askjeeves,
600+ on alltheweb,
500+ on teoma,
1000+ on msn,
500+ on lycos
and on blogs: “0” hits of relevancy –this could be said for search engines also.

The web only being a quick barometer of currency, let’s flip into some major databases and see what we come up with:
5 in proquest,
1 in science direct,
0 in Wilson,
47 in ebscohost;
again the revlevancy of the information found could be questioned. While those may not be the best databases to search in, this is just a rapid way of cobbling together a mental picture on how far we need to go in making information meaningful.

These phrases “conflict of information, conflicting information, and information conflict” describes the tsunami of information in the world and the necessity of thinking about how to organize information for people or how to create Knowledge_Architecture for people to manipulate information, which is an Nth step beyond Information_Architecture.



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Got books?

Question:
Got books?

Quote:
"...I am far from technophobic. In fact, as chief information officer of Rhodes College I am investing heavily in digital asset management, and we are determined to be part of the digital publishing world. This fall, we opened a new library replete with computers and computer laboratories, collaborative learning spaces, laptops for checkout, a teaching/ learning center to help faculty adapt to new teaching technologies, a multimedia center and a 24-hour cybercafe that sells Starbucks products. The 136,000-square-foot facility is wireless throughout..."

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What matters in information?

Question:
What matters in information?

Thought:
Quality aggregation and amalgamation: means information is orientate knowledge when has organization for a specific, uniquely defined population who makes decisions based upon that information, and creates action/potentionalty.

Quote:
"If I had eight hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax."
--Abraham Lincoln

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How can I develop a reverence for life?

Question:
How can I develop a reverence for life?

Example:

If you are a philosopher operating from ethics or beliefs or constructs that are not structured around life but the abstractions of life you urgently need to develop ethics for life.

http://www.schweitzer.org/english/aseind.htm

“The fundamental fact of human awareness is this: "I am life that wants to live in the midst of other life that wants to live." A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own. Thus, all life becomes part of this own experience. From such a point of view, "good" means to maintain life, to further life, to bring developing life to its highest value. "Evil" means to destroy life, to hurt life, to keep life from developing. This, then, is the rational, universal, and basic principle of ethics.” —Albert Schweitzer

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