Inside Out #20
For this fortnight’s Inside Out, I’m leaning into my librarian and sharing some of my favourite recent readings.
Those of you with family abroad may have been heartened by the opening of Aotearoa|New Zealand’s borders… it seems prospective international students are a bit more pessimistic in outlook, which is already affecting budgets across higher education.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/467321/international-student-market-unlikely-to-recover-quickly-agents-warn
Ever felt like you’re running fast to stay in the same place? Well, you are. This article explains that “skillsets for jobs have changed by around 25% since 2015”. This reminded me of how we’ve learned how to use Zoom, are now adapting to MicrosoftTeams, and have all worked out how to deal with a headset which will not let you speak in either!
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220412-what-upskilling-means-for-the-future-of-work?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter
Learning new technologies is a small change in comparison to the disruption COVID-19 has wrought. Often described as having the biggest single impact on higher education since World War II, this quick read helped me deal with my personal response, by talking about how to process emotions like shock and anger.
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/coping-with-change.htm
And last but not least, for those of you who prefer your “reading” to be a video. An inspirational video, which I’ve come back to several times over the course of the last year. It is about the construction of Pae Korokī by the Tauranga City Libraries’ Heritage and Research Team. It helped me understand what a Tīriti|Treaty of Waitangi based approach can look like in a library.
https://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/pages/waka-hourua
Kia maiea tō rā
Helen