Ah serendipity, how I love it.
We have a major building project going on at school right now. The bulldozers are busily demolishing walls from our old library, and and we will soon have a beautiful new library Information and Research Center. From the plans I’ve seen, it should be a great space.
I was asked today to come to a meeting next month and give a short talk to a group of parents and supporters of the new school library building project. Many of these folks are still getting their head around the massive shifts in the way information is managed. Many of them perhaps don’t realise that the term “library” no longer means what it once meant. Information is different in a digital age, and so libraries need to manage information differently. My talk to them needs to cover (briefly) an overview of how information and libraries and “books” are different to what they used to be.
So I thought it extremely serendipitous when I opened my email this afternoon to find this little video. I’m sure I’ll be able to find one minute and twenty seconds to share this video with the group. Should be a good place to start the conversation.
I have no idea how they managed to get this little girl to say all those complicated phrases! Thanks to VALA for making the clip, and to Tony Brandenberg for passing this along via OzTeachers.
