Alice Yucht

Alice is a former teacher, librarian, consultant, and now teaches graduate courses for teachers and librarians in the Professional Development Program at Rutgers (NJ) University’s School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.

She has a website Alice in infoland http://aliceinfo.squarespace.com/
which is her take on school libraries, information literacy etc tagged with various idiosyncratic labels as :

• Aaarrgghh!! for ideas and idiocies that give me mental indigestion
• Brain crumbs for stuff I’m still ‘chewing’ on
• Chalk Dust for teaching and learning concerns
• Check it out for interesting resources I’ve run across
• DAY-tripping for family, friends, and everyday/travel adventures
• Diversions for items that interest/amuse/entertain me
• Info Skills Information-Literacy issues (see also the FLIP it! and SMART projects sections)
• Life Lessons as in ‘been there, done that, have the t-shirt’
• Politips for practical/pragmatic strategies for dealing with workplace issues
• Techno-glitz for insights from others / words to live by

She also has a wiki - her list of recommended blogs is a good resource http://aliceyucht.pbworks.com/EduBiblioBlogList and great links too under the heading "Library as learning place / space / presence" http://aliceyucht.pbworks.com/LibraryLearningPlace

Here is a recent post from her blog :

L*I*B*R*A*R*I*E*S* March 7, 2010

Here is the banner I had hanging outside my ‘room’ wherever I worked:

L inking

I deas

B etween

R eaders

A nd

R esources -

I nforming,

E nriching,

S haring!

Note that it says Ideas, not just Information, because Imagination is just as important as factual content. Also note that there is no mention of format, since it’s the content of those ideas that is more important than the container that encapsulates them. Isn’t that what libraries — and librarians — are all about?