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jadesfireThe following is an acutal extract from the abstract of an article with the innocuous name "A window of opportunity: libraries in higher eduction."
"The lecture and online transmission of rapidly outdated content will continue to give way to a focus on the qualities required by students for employability and lifelong learning. Heavier and more diverse workloads on university teachers will encourage the disaggregation of their teaching. This will provide a window of opportunity for academic librarians to demonstrate their educational partnership role. They should contribute proactively to that disaggregation and, as a key accountability, to the development of information literate students."
I think someone swallowed a management-speak dictionary...
"The lecture and online transmission of rapidly outdated content will continue to give way to a focus on the qualities required by students for employability and lifelong learning. Heavier and more diverse workloads on university teachers will encourage the disaggregation of their teaching. This will provide a window of opportunity for academic librarians to demonstrate their educational partnership role. They should contribute proactively to that disaggregation and, as a key accountability, to the development of information literate students."
I think someone swallowed a management-speak dictionary...
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Date: 2007-07-03 05:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 05:55 pm (UTC)This could be a problem...
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Date: 2007-07-03 05:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 05:57 pm (UTC)It was just one of those sentences that I had to pull apart word by word, then put back together in some form that was, you know, English. *sigh* It's going to be a long haul to September, I can just tell.
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Date: 2007-07-03 05:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 06:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 06:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 06:11 pm (UTC)I really, really object to readers treating me like an idiot. It's not so bad from the faculty members - they treat everyone like idiots - but when it's a first year undergraduate, I do feel like saying "Not only have I already done your degree, I've got an MA as well. And I've been doing this for three years. And I'm the only one who knows where your books are. BE NICE TO ME!!" [/rant] ;)
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:23 pm (UTC)As for those first year undergrads - set your evil!inner-librarian free! Get them lost in the stacks! Squash them in those rolling bookshelf thingies! Direct them to the wrong books! Cancel their library cards! That'll teach them...
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:26 pm (UTC)Oh, and don't worry, we more than get our revenge. It's a round library and all the floors look the same. Wonderful for getting lost in. :)
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:41 pm (UTC)We get to blow things up? Nobody told me!
Damn, what did I just go through all those years of Uni education for?
XWA
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Date: 2007-07-03 05:55 pm (UTC)Also, rapidly outdated content? Oi. If it's all so rapidly outdated, why to I have to still look up articles from the eary eighties because that's when the research was first done?
XWA
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Date: 2007-07-03 05:59 pm (UTC)*g* Sure sounds like it, doesn't it?
The previous sentence to this includes the word 'massification', which sounds like something a hip hop artist would say. Librarians aren't known for their rapping skills :S
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Date: 2007-07-03 07:35 pm (UTC)That's a word? Is that like 'amassment'? *checks dictionary.com* Interestingly dictionary.com recognizes 'demassification', but not 'massification'. But LJ's spell-check knows it, huh.
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 06:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 06:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 06:21 pm (UTC)But they do use 'proactively' which is my absolute turn-off of a word. Should be banned from all management books.
I get the feeling the next two months are going to be full of things like this, but if anyone catches the word 'proactive' in my dissertation, they have my permission to shoot me...
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:51 pm (UTC)As in 'We must leverage our core competencies and synergistic partners to ensure stockholder value.' *shiver*
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:53 pm (UTC)How can they do that to a poor defenceless little noun? I mean, it's bad enough when gerunds are abused, but they're a rare species and very few people have seen them in their natural habitat. But there's no excuse for that. *shudder*
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Date: 2007-07-03 07:01 pm (UTC)Don't get me started on the spoken language and pronunciation!
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 06:55 pm (UTC)*runs away clutching dictionary for protection*
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 06:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 06:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 06:20 pm (UTC)The gist seems to be that students should do more research, and libraraians should help them. But whoever wrote that needs to be taken off his medication (or possibly given some) and weaned away from the spin.
On the bonus side, it looks like you've found the perfect book to cure insomnia.
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-03 07:11 pm (UTC)We should stop teaching students 'actual knowledge' and instead teach them how to get jobs!
Also we should make sure they know what information is and give them librarians as partners in case of disaggregation (is there cream for that?)
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Date: 2007-07-04 07:10 am (UTC)It does sound rather painful, doesn't it.
My brain hurts...
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Date: 2007-07-03 07:15 pm (UTC)Was the author being paid by weight for the article? :)
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Date: 2007-07-04 07:10 am (UTC)Oh good grief I hope not. Wading through the abstract was bad enough - if the whole article's like that, I'm done for. :S
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Date: 2007-07-03 09:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-04 07:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-05 12:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-05 05:48 am (UTC)