I have been toying with the idea of assigning college students a personal librarian for a few months now. And then I read that Yale already does this. I think this is a terrific idea and I’m happy to find that it wasn’t impossible to implement at all. This is an idea well worth sharing. [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Personal Librarians
Posted in library stuff on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scholarly Communication and Librarians
Posted in academia, library stuff on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Convincing faculty of the benefits of publishing through open access sources, or contributing to an institutional repository, is one of the many new challenges facing academic librarians. Faculty outreach has always been a bit of a struggle, but now we’re trying to change a long-standing tradition of scholarly communication, and insert ourselves more visibly into [...]
Post-graduation, post-Boston
Posted in personal on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s hard to believe that the last two years went by so fast, but yes, I’m now an official, bona fide librarian. Not only have I graduated and received my MSLIS (yes, I’m a master of science), but I got a real librarian job, to boot. I will be the new Systems/Metadata Librarian at Whitman [...]
A new librarian’s on-the-job guide
Posted in library stuff on May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today is my last day of graduate school. As of May 11, I will be an official, bona fide librarian! The perfect time to read an excellent bit of advice from the blog Info Career Trends: Ask Permission Later. Rachel gives some excellent advice for new librarians, encouraging us not to be fearful in our [...]
My Tweets
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sean came up with a way to output your Tweet stream and input it into Wordle.
It’s pretty fun. I love visualizations.
