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	<title>Comments on: Living Digital Symposium (part 2)</title>
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		<title>By: Tom Corbett</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Corbett</dc:creator>
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		<description>I feel I need to add a public response to Ann Wolpert&#039;s &quot;is there an App for that&quot; comment in her panel presentation.  Clearly I didn&#039;t provide enough information in my remarks (or the follow-up discussions that occurred within the symposium) to address this misrepresentation of what we are trying to achieve at Cushing Academy.  I&#039;m going to publish the &quot;missing PowerPoint&quot; to my remarks when I get back from traveling this weekend.  Hopefully I can post this presentation through this blog as well as on the ALA website.  

In short, the primary goal for our library&#039;s 21st century curriculum and service changes is to give our students the skills needed to avoid an &quot;is there an App for that&quot; mentality to research.  Moreover, we feel that if secondary school libraries don&#039;t step up to the plate and re-prioritize their service approaches and fully engage the student in using online resources effectively, then indeed the student will likely be left with this &quot;is there an App for that&quot; mentality on their own. Just as importantly, we also feel that we can&#039;t take on this new responsibility without making a break from old habits and priorities.  I also think it is incumbent on the those defending the status quo to show how maintaining a 20,000 volume print collection in a secondary school environment (and all the resources required to continue that focus) helps to avoid this &quot;is there an App for that&quot; mentality.  I don&#039;t ask that facetiously.  I&#039;d like to be shown how this is true.  I believe this argument needs to be pretty strong one to justify the ongoing costs and tradeoffs required to continue providing access to rows of printed books in Dewey order.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel I need to add a public response to Ann Wolpert’s “is there an App for that” comment in her panel presentation.  Clearly I didn’t provide enough information in my remarks (or the follow-up discussions that occurred within the symposium) to address this misrepresentation of what we are trying to achieve at Cushing Academy.  I’m going to publish the “missing PowerPoint” to my remarks when I get back from traveling this weekend.  Hopefully I can post this presentation through this blog as well as on the ALA website.  </p>
<p>In short, the primary goal for our library’s 21st century curriculum and service changes is to give our students the skills needed to avoid an “is there an App for that” mentality to research.  Moreover, we feel that if secondary school libraries don’t step up to the plate and re-prioritize their service approaches and fully engage the student in using online resources effectively, then indeed the student will likely be left with this “is there an App for that” mentality on their own. Just as importantly, we also feel that we can’t take on this new responsibility without making a break from old habits and priorities.  I also think it is incumbent on the those defending the status quo to show how maintaining a 20,000 volume print collection in a secondary school environment (and all the resources required to continue that focus) helps to avoid this “is there an App for that” mentality.  I don’t ask that facetiously.  I’d like to be shown how this is true.  I believe this argument needs to be pretty strong one to justify the ongoing costs and tradeoffs required to continue providing access to rows of printed books in Dewey order.</p>
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