Archive for the tag "science librarian"
The Romanian Patent From Hell
(tl;dr version – tell students to look up this patent if they ever claim, like Thomas Friedman, that “Everything is on Google.”) A few weeks ago, in my SciFinder key contact role I received this innocuous request: This is the lowest hanging fruit among my reference requests – click the “Full Text” link, another click [...]
Posted: 3 April, 2013 in First Year Academic Librarian Experience, Google, Scholarly Communications.
Tags: science librarian
Comments: 2
A New Career
Please welcome our new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger Ian McCullough, Physical Sciences Librarian at the University of Akron. Librarianship seems like a career that many come to later, after some career missteps or dead ends. My career path falls into this broad category as I’ve switched from a relatively promising career in lab [...]
Posted: 4 October, 2012 in First Year Academic Librarian Experience.
Tags: facilities, library building, science librarian
Comments: 4