Infonista http://www.northxnorthwest.org Information Scout, Navigator, & Strategist Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:36:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 New Book from Gardner http://www.northxnorthwest.org/articles/new-book-from-gardne/ http://www.northxnorthwest.org/articles/new-book-from-gardne/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:20:56 +0000 Andrew Lovseth http://www.northxnorthwest.org/?p=53 If you’re a fan of Howard Gardner’s earlier works on intelligence (Frames of Mind, Multiple Intelligences, etc.) or have enjoyed Daniel Goleman’s books on emotional intelligence (Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence, etc.) or Daniel Pink’s work on right-brainers taking over the world (A Whole New Mind), you may want to take a look at Gardner’s most recent book, Five Minds for the Future (Harvard Business School Press, 2007). I haven’t gotten all the way through it yet, but so far, it’s a pretty interesting take on how our brains will need to work in the coming years.

Gardner pioneered the concept of multiple intelligences with Frames of Mind (Basic Books, 1999), which identified the most common “intelligences” as linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and personal. In Five Minds, he identifies the five cognitive abilities (as opposed to intelligences) that will be most in demand (and will be most useful in our careers) as: the disciplinary mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind.

Lots of examples, much to think about here – especially in terms of how we create an opportunity in our libraries and in the LIS profession to encourage, embrace, and reward these abilities.

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Just a note that Info Career Trends, LISjobs.com’s free electronic professional development newsletter, is winding down the year and celebrating the season with a few changes:
First, individual articles are now online at the new Info Career Trends blog. This means a new RSS feed, so please update your subscriptions. But also, and more importantly, it means YOU now have the ability to comment on articles and add your own ideas and input.
The Library Career People column you know and love is also changing over to a blog format in order to facilitate communication and to provide more timely answers to questions. Q&A columns will no longer appear in their entirety in this newsletter, but will be replaced by highlights from recent blog posts and conversations. Subscribe to the Library Career People blog separately here.

Rachel’s also put out an all-call for Info Career Trends writers. She’s currently seeking queries for the May 2008 issue, for which the theme is “Show me the money!” Potential topics for this issue include: finding and landing personal grants, awards, and scholarships; getting funding for conferences, workshops, and other continuing education opportunities; financing an MLS, Ph.D., or LTA degree; strategies for earning a raise or promotion at work; negotiating starting salaries. E-mail queries outlining your proposed article to editor@lisjobs.com, and see ICT’s contributor guidelines here.

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