Archive for 'First Year Academic Librarian Experience'
With a Tangled Skein
My library, and the branch campus where I work, is quite small and in a very rural part of Alabama. We have about 250 students right now, though enrollment doubled since we opened the new building and we expect it to keep growing. I’ve been quite busy the last few weeks with a new and [...]
Posted by ssmith on November 17th, 2008 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Student Issues.
Comments: 21
Greenhorn mistake #1: Feeling responsible for everything
Recently I was able to put into words a nagging feeling that I was taking interactions at the reference desk too personally. The moment of clarity came when a patron nearly chewed me out because the library copier only takes coins, while printing from the computers is a separate payment system. I caught myself on [...]
Posted by onellums on November 7th, 2008 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Public Services.
Comments: 6
Life, the Universe, and Everything
I am looking forward to the coming months in many ways: I finally have an Academic Library Job, I get to do a little bit of everything, and I am honored to be able to blog about my experiences here on the ACRLog. On the flip side, I am also filled with deep concern and [...]
Posted by ssmith on October 20th, 2008 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience.
Comments: 8
Must Teaching and Learning Research Skills be Boring?
Olivia Nellums blogs about her first year experience as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Camden County College in New Jersey.
Even though I’m a young librarian, I can’t remember not knowing how to use the library. I learned gradually, through a process of trial and error, and then by going to library school.
This leaves me [...]
Posted by onellums on October 15th, 2008 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Information Literacy.
Comments: 4
Introducing Our New First Year Bloggers - Dealing With Vegetable Bribes
We’ve selected two new librarians, Susanna Smith and Olivia Nellums, to blog about their experiences during their first year in academic libraries.
Here’s one of the winning posts, from Susanna Smith of Gadsden State Community College in Alabama. Susanna says,
I work at a community college library, which comes with its own sets [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on October 7th, 2008 under First Year Academic Librarian Experience.
Comments: 5