It’s hard to believe I’m already half way through the week. But at least I have a new coffee grinder, purchased at the very odd Shopko, and I got to have my coffee immediately upon waking. Life is much better that way.
8.15 – Arrived at work and checked the emails and RSS feeds, as [...]
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Personal Librarians
Posted in library stuff on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Institutional Repositories and Gardening
Posted in academia, education, library stuff on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love it when my varied interests collide, as they just did when I found these great For the Gardener papers in the University of California’s institutional repository, eScholarship.
These papers were created by the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz, my alma mater. They produce a ton of great [...]
Banned Books Podcast
Posted in books, library stuff on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The podcast for the Banned Books panel we held last fall if finally up on the GSLISCast website. Ellen Giroud, Robie Harris, Penelope Johnson and Anne L. Moore, authors and librarians, spoke about their experiences with book challenges, the history of book challenges, and what you can do if you’re faced with a challenge in [...]
I don’t want to be a slow adopter
Posted in library stuff, technology on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, in my management class, one of the campus librarians came in to talk about managing and keeping up to date with technologies in libraries. And she mentioned repeatedly that librarians “are always a few years behind the newest trends.” She mentioned this as through there is nothing to be done about, as though it’s [...]
ASIST08: Evaluating E-Reference: Transforming Digital Reference through Research and Evaluation
Posted in ASIST, academia, education, library stuff, technology, tagged asist08 on October 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There are a lot of sessions at ASIS&T (and probably most conferences) with fairly impregnable titles. I’ve found myself sitting in sessions which were about something very different than I thought. But this session title is pretty straightforward: It was all about evaluating virtual reference services.
Marie Radford (Rutgers University) and Lynn Connaway (OCLC) spoke [...]
ASIST08: Tagging as a Communication Device
Posted in ASIST, cataloging, library stuff, professional development, tagged asist08 on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The second session I attended yesterday dealt with tagging, another subject I’ve been drawn to during my year in library school.
Heather Pfeiffer of New Mexico State University gave an overview of ontology building. She used the framework of language—syntax, semantics, and pragmatics—to talk about how we construct ontological frameworks, and she placed tagging within [...]
ASIST08: Credibility and Authority of Information in Learning Environments
Posted in ASIST, education, library stuff, tagged asist08 on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was up bright and early this morning for the first session, and am so, so grateful I’m staying in the conference hotel. It just makes life so much easier.
This morning’s session (well, one of the several) was on information literacy and how students judge credibility when they’re researching, whether it’s for school or [...]
