Like Con, I am busy.
I still am enjoying the #blogjune posts floating around. As with every year, I want to keep reading posts, which means keeping my side of the deal, and making posts here.
I am drafting a post about algorithmic cheating in university, but that will take more brain space than I have right now..
So, here is what I have been repeating for the last ten weeks. Memorise these two phrases and you too can pass the courses I teach. It feels like I have said them to every single student, individually and as a class. More than once. Much more for many students.
For Information Retrieval.
Work out the informational need here. Then remember audience and purpose for what you are creating.
Or:
Audience & purpose. Audience & purpose. Audience & purpose.
For Scholarly Communications:
To support scholarly communications, librarians specialise and collaborate.
Or:
Specialisation & collaboration. Specialisation & collaboration. Specialisation & collaboration.
[In other words, you don’t need to know it all. You will know some bits. Other people will know other bits. You need to work together, communicate, share what you know, be prepared to ask humbly about the bits you don’t know.]