TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Buffy Hamilton, known as the Unquiet Librarian, is being sponsored by the PALM Center for a guest lecture at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 7, 2012. The event, "Participatory Librarianship: Creating Enchantment and Conversations for Learning," is free and open to the public.
Well-known in the field, Hamilton is a librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia, and one of the leading thinkers in the field of school librarianship and passionate about creating meaningful learning experiences for her students. Hamilton’s Media 21 program is a Cutting Edge Service Award winner, and she is a Library Journal Mover and Shaker.
As school librarians attempt to position libraries as essential partners in the learning communities, they are exploring ways of cultivating relationships with students and teachers to make meeting their needs the essential part of their work. How should they go about creating physical and virtual library spaces and learning experiences that invite and sustain participation? This lecture will explore how librarians and libraries are using Guy Kawasaki's principles of enchantment to create libraries that are sites of participatory culture and learning that put people at the center of the communally constructed text we call "library."
The lecture will take place on FSU's campus in Room 2004 of the Johnston Building. The building is directly across Landis Green from the Shores Building (Library and Information Science). No parking permits are needed on campus on Saturdays. Lunch is available to purchase after the lecture at the adjacent Suwannee Room.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is requested. To register, please email: [log in to unmask]
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The Partnerships Advancing Library Media (PALM) Center is a joint effort of LSI and two Florida State colleges, the College of Communication and Information and the College of Education. The center offers an array of services to support school librarians and other educators throughout the U.S. and internationally to improve their districts and schools.