Archive for 'First Year Academic Librarian Experience'
Onellums’s last FYALE post, short and sweet
When I tried to reflect on my first year of academic librarianship and what I should include as advice for other new librarians in my final post here at ACRLog, platitudes such as “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” kept popping into my head. So I thought I’d start with a short [...]
Posted by onellums on July 2nd, 2009 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Just Thinking, Professional Development, library careers.
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Explaining Authority (Part 2)
After writing my previous post, our library director brought this report to my attention: “The Changing Nature of Intellectual Authority” by Peter Nicholson, presented at the 148th ARL meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, May 17-19 2006. Apparently I was “scooped” by a good three years, as the ideas in the report are similar enough to my [...]
Posted by onellums on June 8th, 2009 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Teaching.
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
This has been an interesting first year for me, and certainly not what I expected. I’ve learned a lot about bureaucracy, and how to make the best of a clunky administrative system. I’ve learned that what a librarian requests and what the library actually receives can be two vastly different things. I’ve learned that without [...]
Posted by ssmith on June 4th, 2009 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Just Thinking.
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The Organization of Information
My husband (a philosophy professor) and I (a librarian and former bookstore manager) just finished cataloging our entire book collection into LibraryThing. You can only imagine the number of bookshelves in our house, right? For Valentine’s Day I gave him an LT lifetime subscription and he gave me one of their CueCat scanners, and we [...]
Posted by ssmith on May 20th, 2009 under Books, First Year Academic Librarian Experience, library careers.
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Explaining Authority
One thing I have found difficult in my librarian-instructor capacity is how to impress students with the idea that some sources of information are better than others. We are all comfortable with the concept that value is subjective. But does this apply to information? (My own answer varies depending on what day it is.)
Of students [...]
Posted by onellums on May 13th, 2009 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Public Services, Student Issues, Teaching.
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