Archive for the tag "reference"
Research Librarianship in Crisis: Mediate When, Where, and How?
This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is by Bohyun Kim, Digital Access Librarian, Florida International University Medical Library. She blogs at Library Hat. The talk about the crisis of librarianship is nothing new. Most recently, back in May, Seth Godin, a marketing guru, has written on his blog a post [...]
Posted: 1 August, 2011 in Libraries and Learning, Public Services, Research Issues, Teaching.
Tags: future, instruction, mediation, reference, research libraries
Comments: 8
Don’t Make It Easy For Them
This month’s post in our series of guest academic librarian bloggers is from Andy Burkhardt, Emerging Technologies Librarian at Champlain College in Vermont. He also blogs at Information Tyrannosaur. I love customer service in libraries. I love improving our systems and services so they are more user-friendly. I love helping students with their research and [...]
Posted: 4 January, 2011 in Public Services, Simplicity vs. Complexity, Student Issues.
Tags: customer service, instruction, reference, students
Comments: 8
A Personal Touch
Earlier this week the Chron reported on the new Personal Librarian Program at Drexel University. Every incoming freshman student this year has been assigned an individual librarian, and students are encouraged to contact their personal librarians throughout the semester whenever they have questions about doing research or using the library. While Drexel is not the [...]
Posted: 17 September, 2010 in Public Services, Student Issues.
Tags: Drexel University, freshmen, personal librarian, reference, service
Comments: 8
Gone Camping
It’s summertime, so last week I packed my bag and headed off to camp: LibCampNYC, a library unconference held at Brooklyn College, CUNY. This was the first unconference I’d ever attended, having narrowly missed out on signing up for Library Camp NYC in 2007. One of the defining features of an unconference is its loose [...]
Posted: 13 June, 2009 in Conference Blogging, Professional Development.
Tags: critical pedagogy, Information Literacy, Open Access, reference, unconference
Comments: 1
