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What’s Your Signature Statement
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The lure of the local (library association)
http://acrlog.org/2008/05/01/the-lure-of-the-local-library-association/Americans are mobile by nature, and American academics are even more so. Simply to change jobs most of us would need to relocate to another city, if not another state. This mobility has been on my mind recently because this year, for the first time, I became significantly involved in my local library organization. …
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Truth, Information and Knowledge: u r boring me
http://acrlog.org/2008/04/30/truth-information-and-knowledge-u-r-boring-me/A funny and ultimately disheartening? article in the Washington Post portrays librarians as the last defenders of truth in a decadent culture consumed with trivia and superficialities, even going so far as to describe librarians as “trench warriors for truth.” Here’s a dramatic excerpt from a chat reference service: “We’re losing him! …
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Balance
http://tscott.typepad.com/tsp/2008/05/balance.htmlafternoon (thank god it's not the first thing in the morning!) I'll spend an hour or so talking about health information and the impact that we can have on the communities that we're a part of. There's been some chatter lately about the perennial work/life balance issue. These discussions often emphasize the importance of having a "life outside of work." I
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Reference at Newman Library
http://referencenewman.blogspot.comThe Art of Questioning … - May 8, 2008 The Song of the Open Access Road - May 7, 2008 The Chronicles of Academia - May 7, 2008 BlackBerry in the Liberry - May 6, 2008 What’s Your Signature Statement
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Manage This!
http://managethis.orgInterestingly some other librarians are honing their messages into “signature statements”. Kathryn Greenhill, who frequently writes posts that make me think, points to Stephen Bell and his post “What’s your signature statement?” It seems that academic librarians are being influenced by the many educators who have a statement of teaching philosophy to develop a “public statement [that] tells people what makes us special, standout in our field of librarianship”
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The message is the message
http://managethis.org/?p=56and telling our patrons that our services “are better for them”. Interestingly some other librarians are honing their messages into “signature statements”. Kathryn Greenhill, who frequently writes posts that make me think, points to Stephen Bell and his post “What’s your signature statement?” It seems that academic librarians are being influenced by the many educators who have a statement of teaching philosophy to develop a “public statement [that] tells people what makes us special,
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What’s your signature statement ?
http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/05/07/whats-your-signa...ACRLog
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Academic Librarian
http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarianSteven Bell has a typically thought-provoking blog post at the ACRLog entitled Sorry But You Can't Have it All. I don't really know Steven, but since we did meet once years ago I'll be informal and call him Steven. Before I begin discussing this post, I want to note two things for the record. First, I often disagree with either the substance or the tone of
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403 Forbidden
http://pegasuslibrarian.blogspot.comThese are posts for another evening, though, because what's been on my mind today started as a lunch-time conversation on a similar theme. I was talking to Barbara Fister (who writes in too many places to make name-linking easy, so I'll just choose ACRLog for her this time) and two librarians from St. Olaf when the topic of professional communication came up. Specifically, where is the professional discussion about librarianship happening right now, and what's happening with email lists?
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Att gnälla på chefen
http://www.biblioteksrelaterat.se/2008/05/att-gnlla-p-che.ht...I det stora landet i väster verkar det finnas ett växande missnöje med överbibliotekarierna, om man får tro blogginlägget "Dissin´The Director - the Library Worker´s Favorite Pasttime" i ACRLog. Efter att ha gett några exempel på denna trend kommer ett antal förslag på hur man från både chefernas och de anställdas sida bör agera för att undvika ömsesidig misstänksamhet och missnöje - det mesta låter i mina öron alldeles
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Reference at Newman Library
http://referencenewman.blogspot.comThe lure of the local (library association) - May 1, 2008 Truth, Information and Knowledge: u r boring me - Apr 30, 2008 Sorry But You Can’t Have It All - Apr 24, 2008 A Surprise Ending - Apr 22, 2008
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All-Naropa Blog
http://www.naropa.edu/blogsVia ACRLog: "Truth: Can You Handle It? Better Yet: Do You Know It When You See It?"
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