400 posts tagged Librarianship
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Gould Library: Trading Card Gallery
http://philbradley.typepad.com/ phil_bradleys_weblog/ 2008/ 05/ gould-library-t.…Gould Library: Trading Card Gallery. I don't know who these people are, but they look like great fun. All eight of their librarians have their own trading cards. They also have an archive of the old ones as well!
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Friday Levity: Steroids scandal in the Library
http://ericjennings.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ friday-levity-steroids-scandal-…This humorous “news” item (PDF) was worth sharing. It speaks not only to baseball fans like myself because of recent controversies in baseball with the likes of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, but also to libraries and librarians because it tries to point out (humorously) the importance of the work
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How Amazon Could Change Publishing
http://www.resourceshelf.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ how-amazon-could-change-publishing/From the article: Will the world’s biggest book seller become the world’s biggest book publisher? Authors hope so. What would this mean for libraries, cataloging, and bibliographic control? Source: Forbes
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I’m a Twit
http://othemts.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ im-a-twit/So, I finally gave in and registered for Twitter even though I really do not understand the practical purpose of the tool. I mean I understand what it’s for - telling people what you’re up to at every minute of the day - I just don’t know what it does for a shy guy like me and especially what it
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Followup on Is this how we encourage people to contribute?
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/ wordpress/ index.php/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ followup-on-i…I’ve been thinking a lot about the discussion last week about speaking, being compensated for speaking, transparency, the profession and it’s (perhaps?) inferiority complex, and so much more. Everyone contributed such unique and interesting perspectives, some I agree with, some I don’t, some that made me change my perspective a bit.
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MLA Convention
http://www.shush.ws/ wordpress/ ?p=311MLA Convention May 15th, 2008 I was at the Massachusetts Library Association’s Convention in the SeaCrest Hotel last week, a nice place to stay if you’re ever in the area. I’ll have a couple posts about it later but for now I just thought I’d share a couple pics that sum up how I usually feel at these things.
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The May/June 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available
http://lilyheart.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ the-mayjune-2008-issue-of-d-lib-ma…http://www.dlib.org/ This issue contains four articles, a conference report, the ‘In Brief’ column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in ‘Clips and Pointers’. This month, D-Lib features the “University of Maryland Libraries Digital Collections” contributed by Susan Schreibman.
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Cites & Insights 8:6 available
http://lilyheart.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ cites-insights-86-available/Cites & Insights 8:6, June 2008, is now available for downloading at http://citesandinsights.info/civ8i6.pdf. from Walt Crawford The 28-page issue is PDF, as usual, but (since My Back Pages is missing) all segments are also available as HTML separates at the home page ( http://citesandinsights.info/)
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MLA 2008: Calling all Emerging Technology Librarians
http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ mla-2008-calling-all-emerging.htmlOver the past year I have been seeing an increasing number of library openings with the title Emerging Technology Librarian (or similar) If you have such a title (or similar) and will be attending the MLA 2008 annual meeting in Chicago, I would be interested in talking with you.
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So, a librarian in every house?
http://mavericklibrarian.vox.com/ library/ post/ so-a-librarian-in-every-house.h…Wayne Bivens-Tatum had a interesting suggestion in his post "Everyone Needs a Librarian." In many ways, he outlines the role that I think instruction librarians (and librarians in general) should be playing in their academic libraries and campuses at large.
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