Playing for Keeps: Lifelong Learning in the Ludic Library

Authors

  • Barbara Fister Gustavus Adolphus College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/palrap.2013.10

Abstract

We take information literacy seriously, yet in a sense, the best researchers are playful. How might concepts of play inform our practice in libraries made for learning? What if we reconceptualized research from the systematic acquisition and use of intellectual property to a more creative and open approach to engaging with ideas in motion? What does it mean to be information literate in a world in which "publish" is a button?

Author Biography

Barbara Fister, Gustavus Adolphus College

Barbara Fister is an academic librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.
She writes regularly for Library Journal and Inside Higher Ed.

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2013-04-14

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