Kate Gukeisen

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Kate Gukeisen
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  • Lesson 2-Mints Invigorate Students

    Effective instructors are in tune with their students and able to shift gears with them. And they know when to pass out the mints.    Read more

  • Library Dogs Aren’t Just for Public Libraries

    My post about Ace the Library Dog led to some great questions and to a few friends sharing their experiences with similar programs. I thought I’d take the opportunity to share some a few interesting links regarding library dog programs. After exhaustive research (okay, after typing “library dog” into google), I struck gold in the… Read more

  • Lesson 9-Library Dogs are Pretty Awesome

    Ace, the Northern Onondaga Public Library Dog, came to visit our class along with his human, Meg. Ace is a registered Therapy Dog and Canine Good Citizen who spends his time working split shifts between three branches in the NOPL system. He also comes with his very own barkcode–and is available for patrons to check… Read more

  • 10 Things I Learned at Library Boot Camp

    The following are my personal Top Ten Take Aways from my first week on the road to New Librarianship. I’ll explore a few of these topics my next blog posts. 1.   New Librarians embrace body art. 2.   Mints invigorate students. 3.   Librarians do not need to prove we are relevent. 4.   Militant idealists… Read more

  • I Will Never Leave a Fallen Comrade

    In the final Thread of R. David Lankes’ The Atlas of New Librarianship (2011), we finally get to the librarian. In amongst the descriptions of skill sets, teamwork, processes, and curriculum, there is a statement which stops me in my tracks. Lankes proposes that in the case of deadlocked debate between new librarians and bibliofundamentalists,… Read more

  • We Happy Few

    “This time, this information age? This is our age.”   -R. David Lankes, The Atlas of New Librarianship, p.135 I am a sucker for a good call-to-arms style speech. My favorite movies (which mostly come from great books) all contain rousing pre-battle speeches. William Wallace rallying his fellow Scotsmen at the Battle of Stirling, Henry V… Read more