Reading in Context, Reading for Sense: A Call for Contextual Intention and Attention

摘要

On the campus of a liberal arts college serving 5,000 in Austin, Texas, the concrete-minimalist library houses rows of slick, broad LCD monitors that hum in the abundant space, undisturbed by the paper pungency of the stacks. The print books are resting upstairs, their floor the ceiling of the glass-walled office of a public services librarian,who is - not really, but in her mind's fantastical somaticizing of the complex emotions she feels - cowering, behind one of her own dual monitors, from the insistent hunch that a student has just left her office more confused than on arrival. Meanwhile, across campus in academic support programs, the coordinator of the online writing lab is -in her mind's fantasy only -taking cover from the confusions and convolutions of which the essay she's reading is a shining example.