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Nicely done. You are a natural diplomat and have yourself an inimitable style.
What I find extraordinary is that there are others critiquing the use of the term without looking at the literature, without so much as listening to the many available lectures on the topic strewn across the internet. Our librarian colleagues are grappling with the issues themselves and we should help them understand the term if we can.
For the record, I don't particularly like the terms "transnational" or "transliteracy". With respect to the latter, I prefer metaliteracies.
To help my students, I've started an entry on 'transliteracy' http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Transliteracy_for_librarians
Transliteracy, Information Literacy, et. al
Thanks to David for challenging the precepts of transliteracy in his inimitable style. I LOL'd at the find and replace screen in which "Library 2.0" is completely replaced by "transliteracy." Yes, we should be cautious about a heedless embrace of buzzwords. And yes, the "sloppy use of langauge ...
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I’m writing this post at the Pub, one of my very favorite haunts in Berkeley/Albany. In addition to a decent selection of beers on tap, there is an impressive offering of tobaccos that smell good even though I will never smoke them. Usually I only make it to the Pub with my good friends Adam and...
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