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#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 [...]
I am super, super excited to share that I will be interning with the Internet Public Library through the upcoming summer semester! I am looking forward to contributing to the teaching and learning mission of the IPL by assisting the Researcher in Distance Education with a few of her (many!) exciting projects. I will be [...]
By way of Meredith Farkas’s blog Information Wants to Be Free: Students from San Jose State University’s SLIS library and information science program have created a wonderful collection of LIS publications. Using a wiki, they have it organized by: LIS scholarly journals LIS professional and trade publications LIS online forums Civilian publications Book publishers Unclaimed [...]
Wow, folks are talkin’, and I’m so glad about it! As someone who is working on her MLIS, I am always interested in reading about the future of the profession, no matter how wonderful – or bleak – some may predict it to be. It’s important to critically analyze where the profession is, where it’s [...]
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 [...]
