Coffee and computers

The learnings from the past week have percolated now - must be all the coffee we have been drinking! Here are two significant ones:

From Tony Carr: "adult learning" now applies to younger and younger people.

We need to treat all students as adult learners which means using the methods of adult education in the provision of library education/information literacy. I wonder whether the methodology that we use with undergraduates should be different to the one which we use with postgraduates and researchers. Is the stereotype of "underprepared" undergraduate student determining our response to the extent that we set low expectations of their ability?

From Karin de Jager, courtesy of IFLA: subject librarians need to take their "desks" to wherever the students and researchers are.

If we are to take our skills and resources to the researchers in their departments and offices, then libraries need to provide computer laptops for librarians to enable us to be mobile.