Author Archive: Araceli Méndez Hintermeister

Building Community

By Araceli Méndez Hintermeister | September 1, 2020

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters By Priya Parker We spend much of our time in meetings, at conferences, and attending other work-related affairs—either in person or virtually—but often those experiences are narrowly focused on logistics, one-way communication, and mechanics. Parker shows that getting together with other people doesn’t have … Continue reading Building Community →

Reenvisioning Work

By Araceli Méndez Hintermeister | March 2, 2020

Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World By Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall Culture, goals, leadership, feedback: These ideas are ingrained in our work lives. They shape the organizations we work for and our experiences within them. But Buckingham and Goodall argue that they are, in fact, lies that distort … Continue reading Reenvisioning Work →

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Come holiday or hurricane, one thing you can count on is that The New York Times’s best-seller lists will be published online every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Eastern. And those lists will be dated for the print Book Review, where they will appear 11 days later. In a look behind the scenes, the best-seller lists staff members explain their jobs, how sales data is collected and analyzed, and how they keep themselves entertained and stable under pressure.

New York Times, Sept. 23
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Librarian Kimberly Francisco writes: “When the COVID-19 crisis was in its infancy, publishers and individuals acted pretty quickly to put out ebooks about the virus or to help children understand and cope with the changes it brought to their lives. Now that it’s been over half a year that we’ve been living this way, though, physical books have started to make their way to the marketplace, including a handful of fiction.”

Stacked, Sept. 23
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Escape rooms in libraries are popular activities for families, providing free, interactive entertainment for people of all ages. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has put most in-person library programs on hold. Some librarians have found creative ways to safely continue the fun during the pandemic. McMillan Memorial Library in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, has set up a no-touch, outdoor escape room that community members can enjoy while maintaining social distancing.

I Love Libraries, Sept. 18
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Susan Shapiro writes: “Despite spiking coronavirus cases on university campuses across the country, everyone I knew hated remote learning. I could see why. It has certainly been my weirdest work experience in a quarter-century teaching college. I worked on a computer all day, so I’d taken the professorship to interact with live humans. What changed the tone was asking everyone to say where they were now and how they were holding up during the turmoil.”

Wired, Sept. 22
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The National Coalition Against Censorship is urging the Burbank (Calif.) Unified School District to retain several books in its curriculum and allow teachers to teach the books while they are under review. The challenged books include Huckleberry Finn, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Cay, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

National Coalition against Censorship, Sept. 17
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A new report from Project Information Literacy examines US media coverage about COVID-19 and its visual representation across time and digital space during the early months of 2020. The report includes interactive data visualizations showing the results of a computational analysis of 125,696 articles from 66 news websites; a content analysis of 532 randomly selected news images from the top 12 outlets; and teaching and learning resources for librarians, educators, students, and journalists.

Project Information Literacy, Sept. 15
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Burkely Hermann writes: “Two years ago, the animated series Hilda premiered on Netflix, and a minor character called ‘The Librarian’ (voiced by Kaisa Hammurlund) quickly became a fan sensation. Although she only appears in about three minutes of the show’s first season, this feisty librarian has been mentioned in 20 fanfiction stories on Archive of Our Own and has a Tumblr blog dedicated to her. She has also been a subject of a lot of chatter among the fanbase, from Twitter to Reddit. The official Hilda Twitter account has described her as a mysterious librarian who has an unmatched, and extensive, ‘knowledge of cemetery records and mystical items.’”

I Love Libraries, Sept. 21

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