Archive for 'library careers'
Don’t Let It Bring You Down MJ
MJ, I rarely, if ever, regret anything I’ve written, but I read your comment and if my post causes you to doubt that I am really passionate about academic librarianship, or if it leads you to question if you are making the right choice about wanting to pursue a career in academic librarianship – that [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 22nd, 2009 under library careers.
Comments: 3
Satisfaction For The Profession
Back in 2003 I authored an article titled “Passion for the Profession” in portal: Libraries and the Academy. In this piece I shared my reasons for being passionate about our work and provided my rationale for why we do it – and why those contemplating a career in librarianship would do well to consider the [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 13th, 2009 under library careers.
Comments: 18
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.
Comments: none
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.
Comments: 6
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.
Comments: 16