Higher Education by day, MLIS student by night

April Fools!

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

From today’s home page of the Robert E. Kennedy Library at Cal Poly:

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#libday4: Day in the Life… Project

Monday, January 25th, 2010

#libday4 has been a very popular tag in the library world today.

Eh?

#libday 4 = A Day in the Life of a Librarian, Round 4.

Ah ha!

I remember when Bobbi Newman first wrote about her day in the life of a librarian, just over a year and a half ago. It has grown exponentially since then. All it took was one blog post about her day… then it quickly grew into a wiki where others shared their stories… and today I noticed a Day-in-the-Life netvibes page filled with all sorts of social-sharing goodness from twitter, delicious, flickr, friendfeed, etc.

I recommend all MLIS/MLS programs incorporate it into their introduction to the information professions classes. Information/Library science students can learn about real people straight from their own writings rather than from static handouts filled with random charts or book chapters dryly explaining librarian-related tasks.

[Think of this vs. this].

I wanted to write more about how grateful I am to everyone who shared information about their day, allowing others to take a peek into their daily professional lives. I had many thoughts in my head about why this project was a brilliant idea, but I can’t say it any better than Erin Dorney (see blog: Library Scenester).

I especially like her idea of some sort of day-in-the-life spinoff of library school students sharing what they’re learning. Just as professional librarians have a lot to share about the practical things that happen daily, MLIS students have a lot to share from what they are learning in the classroom. I’m not saying this because I am one, but MLIS students are great resources of information about new trends, theories, and so on (for a great example, follow the #lis768 tweets from Michael Stephens’s students at Dominican U).

So as a side note for all graduate and doctorate students – I call on you to share what your day is like in the life of being a librarian/information professional-to-be, what-have-you.  A few folks have posted already:

  • Rachel Slough, MLS Candidate, Indiana University SLIS: Lib and Learn
  • Karen Cawley, MLS Candidate, Syracuse University—School Media: karenthelibrarian
  • Alison Miller, Doctorate of Professional Studies in Information Management, Syracuse University School of Information Studies: infolibnow.net
  • Laura Williams, Graduate Trainee, Oxford University Library Service: Theatre Grad Blog
  • Sarah Hogg, Graduate Trainee, Oxford University: Library Trainee in Oxford

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The Corvallis-Benton County Public Library is on Twitter!

Monday, February 16th, 2009

I have a bit of a soft spot for the Corvallis-Benton County Library– after all, I volunteer there a couple days every week! They are on Twitter now and have started their own blog.

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Cheers to the CBCPL!

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The "L" Word

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Gasp! Not the dreaded “L” word!

From yesterday’s Library Journal:

Rutgers Faculty Agrees to Drop “Library” from SCILS Name.

Why is “Library” such a dreaded word?

update 3/23/08

The Library Journal posted two responses today regarding Rutgers’s decision to drop “Library” from SCILS:

Jorge Reina Schement: Why Rutgers Faculty Agreed to Drop the “Library” Name

Mary K. Shelton: It’s Wrong for Rutgers to Drop the “Library” Name

update 3/27/09

And now Andrew Albanese: What’s in a name? Readers Sound off on Rutgers Proposed Name Change to SCILS

update 4/3/09

And yes, it really did happen: Rutgers Board of Governers Approves Name Change Dropping Word “Library

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