Archive for 'Public Services'
Did You Hear The One About The Library Presentation
Editor’s Note: Here is a guest post from ACRLog reader Marilyn R. Pukkila, Head of Instructional Services for the Colby College Libraries, in which she shares an interesting but not entirely pleasant encounter and experience at a First Year Experience conference. The ACRLog blog team thanks Marilyn for her contribution.
I’m just back from the [...]
Posted by StevenB on March 3rd, 2008 under Libraries and Learning, Public Services.
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What You Want To Say And What You Do Say
I think this post over at Not of General Interest will resonate with any academic librarian who has worked the reference desk, taught an instruction session or possibly even graded some research papers. “Bad Professor, Good Professor” reminds us that even though we may sometimes have bad thoughts or reactions to what our students write, [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 17th, 2007 under Libraries and Learning, Public Services.
Comments: 2
Warming Up To The Idea Of User Education
Reading the latest (November 2007) issue of Against the Grain brought two surprises in one article. In his regular column (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) Rick Anderson takes up a public service issue, not his usual fare. So surprise number one is that he’s taking on the problem of the reference desk and the [...]
Posted by StevenB on November 19th, 2007 under Libraries and Learning, Public Services.
Comments: 2
Welcome To The Contact Zone
You know how when you read something that is really new and provocative, you just want to immediately share it with colleagues. That’s the way I felt when I first read a draft of an editorial written by Bill Miller for The Reference Librarian. The editorial is titled “Reference, Cultural Values, and the Contact Zone,” [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 24th, 2007 under Public Services, Worth Reading.
Comments: 2
Another Reason I’m Glad To Be An Academic Librarian
Compared to public librarians, I think that academic librarians have it easy in some ways. We tend to complain about students and faculty not using the library, but let’s face it, to a large extent we have a fairly captive audience. Many students need to use their academic library at some point, be it for [...]
Posted by StevenB on July 11th, 2007 under Public Services.
Comments: 5