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Patience- Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Patience

Learning how to be patient with oneself and others.

Learning how to let a dislocated shoulder (did I mention my recent jogging accident) heal. Not the relocation of the shoulder (thank you GREAT ER doctors) but the soft tissue damage that takes TIME to repair.

Our son laughed with me recently as I shared this dislocated shoulder dilemma, and HOW one must allow time to heal. 

There is no substitute for time.  I find this is also true for moving IL as a Discipline forward. (ILIAD)

Certain elements are needed for this to be understood, embraced, and integrated into thinking and explicated more certainly in the curriculum.

However, it takes time. Just like the soft tissues in my shoulder cannot be fast-forwarded for healing and restoration- nor can the identity of IL as a Discipline be embraced in a fast-forward kind of way. We all need time to process, and explore how this looks in various scenarios of curricula development, institutional conversations, and ways to better articulate how IL is a discipline that should be part of higher education understanding. Each academic library - teaching or research - needs a dean that determines the coursework needed for information literacy to be part of the overarching curriculum.


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