Archive for 'Just Thinking'
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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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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Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
If Ranganathan Was Around Today There Would Be No Five Laws
I imagine if Ranganathan was writing right now he’d probably be scared shitless to publish his Five Laws, worried that some anonymous blogger might ridicule it into oblivion or that other bloggers might just rip it to shreds to get their tribe riled up. Of [...]
Posted by StevenB on April 23rd, 2009 under Just Thinking.
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Assessment is the New Black
I’m teaching a course this semester for the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Illinois called, “Libraries, Information, and Society.” Like similar courses, it presents an introduction to a number of core concepts for future information professionals, as well as an introduction to professional skills, values, and employment environments. This week, we heard [...]
Posted by Scott Walter on April 22nd, 2009 under Assessment, Just Thinking, LIS Education.
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Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Low Self-Esteem Problem
Aren’t we the gals and guys who formulated call number schemes? So how is it that in LC library science materials got tagged with “Z”? If librarians were in charge of this operation wouldn’t it have been easy for them to just make librarianship “A”. It’s not like LC is based on a [...]
Posted by StevenB on February 19th, 2009 under Just Thinking.
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