Connecting Collections and Cultures By Creating a Community of Children's Librarians Around Early Literacy Storytimes.

Autor: Campana, Kathleen, Brouwer, Marin, Urban, Ivette Bayo, Mills, J. Elizabeth, Capps, Janet, Feldman, Erika, Burnett, Kathleen
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science & Technology; 2014, Vol. 51 Issue 1, p91-94, 4p
Abstrakt: Communities of practice are important tools for professional development, encouraging peer-to-peer learning and knowledge creation. This study, which is part of a three-year Institute for Museum and Library Services National Leadership Research Grant, examined children's librarians' perceptions of a community of practice they created during an extended online, interactive training program. The librarians shared both positive and negative perceptions of the community that was created during the training. Through the interviews it became apparent that while creating a community of practice the librarians made connections between their collections and shared their library cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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