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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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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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What To Wear At ACRL
Sometimes we get interesting tips here at ACRLog. Seems like there is a bit of tweeting going on among first-timers headed to Seattle for ACRL who have a bit of a dilemma. What should people wear to ACRL? Quite a few of the first-time attendees are new or soon-to-be LIS program graduates who are thinking [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 10th, 2009 under Conference Blogging, library careers.
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Still Waiting For Those Old Librarians To Retire
Editor’s Note: A frequent source of grousing among those newer-to-the-profession academic librarians is that the “impending shortage of librarians” they heard so much about is just a myth. The shortage, no doubt, is predicated on the expectations that many senior members of the profession would soon be retiring. Someone who has closely studied employment and [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 5th, 2009 under library careers.
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So You Wanna Be A Librarian Blogger Star
There must be at least 500 librarian blogs. Probably closer to 600. I imagine Walt Crawford has probably given some more accurate librarian blogger data in one of his blog studies, but I think I’m in the ballpark. So let’s say you are a librarian and decide you want to have a well known blog. [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 13th, 2008 under library careers.
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