When I entered the profession a good number of years ago we were all just librarians. No one thought of themselves as members of any particular generation. I got into some local associations early on and got to know some of the seasoned members of the profession, but I just thought of myself as a [...]

Friday at the Drexel University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Symposium, Siva Vaidhyanathan raised some serious questions about the partnership between libraries and Google in a powerful and provocative analysis of Google Book Search. Siva is unique in that he combines an in-depth knowledge of copyright, a reasoned appreciation for new technology and a clear love and [...]

As the instructor of an LIS course on academic librarianship I’m certainly interested in hearing more about LIS students’ interest in taking a course on this topic and about their interest in academic librarianship as a career. At the ACRL Conference I attended a session about attracting LIS students into academic librarianship. One of the [...]

I’m not certain what I think it means but … I am attending this conference – The Student as Scholar: Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice – and am the only person I see with a laptop in the sessions. So different than presenting at ACRL and other recent library conferences where the blog posts about [...]

The ETS has renamed its ICT exam to iSkills to make it sound more relevant and hip. At least they didn’t call it iSkillz. I’m guessing people got tired of explaining the acronym – or correcting people when they assumed the C stood for computer. But in the rush to be cool, I wonder: Should [...]