[Publib] Gen Y biggest adult users of libraries

[Rawles-Heiser, Carolyn]

I agree that the white out is kind of silly (my city is the one that
does that).    We have discovered inadvertently that if you want to see
the date, it's easy to read through white out by holding it up to a
light!  However, the theory behind it is to give people a fair shot at
getting an interview regardless  of their perceived age since we don't
interview all applicants for every job.   In the future we will have
even less personal info about applicants.  The personnel dept is in the
process of implementing an online system which will assign applicants a
number so we won't even see their names until we have done the initial
screening and selected the candidates for interview.  The idea behind
that is to keep us from screening out applicants who may appear to be of
particular ethnic backgrounds based on their names and/or screening for
people we already know.  
 
Carolyn
 
Carolyn Rawles-Heiser 
Library Director 
Corvallis--Benton County Public Library 
645 NW Monroe Ave. 
Corvallis, OR  97330 

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[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Judith Turner
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [Publib] Gen Y biggest adult users of libraries


Hi, Stacy --

I'm not a fan of group projects in school, either (and I don't think
they provide much benefit for the unmotivated young people in the
group).  Its use at the college level and in graduate school fits in
with a way of teaching that my children experienced from elementary
school through middle and high school (Child #1 began kindergarten in
1985 and #2 graduated h.s. in 2000.)

3 possible explanations:

1) It is supposed to prepare students for the workplace/office
environment more 
effectively than doing solo work that older educational models promoted.

b) It is a belated attempt to provide females with the team experience
that athletic programs or the military traditionally provided males
(although given the number of team opportunities for young women through
the high school years, not to mention women in the armed forces, it
seems unnecessary today.)

3) the instructor has to grade fewer projects than if each student did
an individual
project/paper/exam.

Happy New Year's to all and if anybody would like a link to Caleb
Crain's recent New Yorker article, Twilight of the Books, let me know.
It's not the most upbeat of articles -- just didn't seem the piece to
inflict on everybody to start the New Year.

BTW, whiting out dates on resumes and applications seems pretty silly
unless  interviews are conducted with the candidate behind a blind or
screen (the way some symphonies interview aspiring musicians.)

Judy Turner
Whitefish Bay,   WI

BookBitch <bookbitch at yahoo.com> wrote: 

	. I'm curious at to if my understanding is
	correct, and if so, why you think group projects are a
	good thing.
	
	


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