#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Apr 24 2017

via Giulia Forsythe

TOPIC

Libraries, LIS pros & the Open Movement

I’m currently taking the Introduction to OERs course that Library Juice Academy (#LJAOER) offers because Open Educational Resources and the Open Movement, in general, are becoming big topics of conversation in my workplace and in my entire province. Given the discussions happening in my course I can tell it’s happening elsewhere too so I thought we could have this week’s chat be about the open movement and libraries. Our inspiration article/source, therefore, is The Open Movement: What Libraries Can Do a 2015 conference presentation by Sheila Corrall. Another source you can check out is my Notes from #ONOERlibrarians day @ Ryerson University during the one-day conference I attended in March.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1. What do you already know about the open movement? (e.g. Open Access, Creative Commons, Open Data, Open Source & OERs)

Q2. Is your library/are you specifically already involved with any part(s) of the open movement? Which parts? What are you doing?

Q3. What do you see being the role of libraries and library professionals being in the future of the open movement?

Q4. What suggestions/resources do you have for library pros looking to learn more about/get involved with the open movement?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, APRIL 24 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG. 

#LISprochat lead-in - topic & questions for Mon Apr 10 2017

TOPIC

Figuring out what is good career advice and what isn't

The chat topic for Monday, April 10, 2017's chat is inspired by first and foremost the end of the last #LISprochat where we sort of started talking about this and I mentioned it would be a good topic for a future chat. For some reading on this topic, head over to Alison Green's advice blog Ask a Manager and check out the Bad Advice tag. Alison's got one of the best career advice websites out there.

QUESTIONS

We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.

Q1. What's the best advice you ever received, what's the worst?

Q2. What tricks and tips do you have for how you can tell what advice is good or bad? 

Q3. What resources do you use for good advice?

Q4. What are some resources you avoid & tell others to avoid because you know they give bad advice?

PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING IN ON TWITTER AT 9 PM ET MONDAY, MARCH 27 USING THE #LISPROCHAT HASHTAG.