Sep 01 2002
July 1, 2002 - vol. 3, no. 5 - ISSN 1532-0839
Welcome to ICT’s 2nd anniversary issue! Thanks to all of you who have kept reading and kept contributing to make the newsletter a success.
Contrary to our demure and quiet image, savvy librarians take advantage of every opportunity to communicate: from conferences, to [...]
Sep 01 2002
by Susan Scheiberg
“OK,” I thought on my first day of work in the graduate research library at the University of Southern California. “This is it — time to be a librarian!” After years of graduate school and a previous career as a folklorist, I’d decided on a career change, gone to [...]
Sep 01 2002
ICT: Please talk a little bit about Reference Reviews, and about the types of reviews it includes.
SN: Reference Reviews (RR), as you can guess from the title, is a journal that reviews reference materials in both print and electronic formats. It is published eight times per year in print by Emerald [...]
Sep 01 2002
by Chrissie Anderson Peters
Presenting in front of a group of peers can be nerve-racking — especially when your involvement is “volunteered” by your director, as was my first professional presentation. Two coworkers and I had just wrapped up an exhilarating/exhausting collection development project where we opened five new or expanded locations [...]
Sep 01 2002
by Melody Allison
Everyone loves a good conference program, a chance to get out and learn about new things, network, and have fun. But what goes on “behind the scenes,” as the conference planning committee plots to create a good program experience?
Steps To a Successful Program
1. Create a working group.
It is always nice [...]
Sep 01 2002
by Janet Clapp
I used to pile up my library publications unread, speedily skim e-mail lists, and hurry in and out of conferences without speaking to a soul. For questions and discussions on library issues, I turned to staff members at my own library. Further professional communication took second place to answering reference questions, calculating statistics, [...]
Sep 01 2002
by Robert P. Holley
The Internet was the key to improving the results of my latest research. I was surprised at how much my paper benefited both from increased electronic access to traditional bibliographic resources and from the additional materials available only on the web, and came away from the experience as [...]
Sep 01 2002
“Who’s Going To Preserve E-Zine Content?” by Marylaine BlockThe argument for archiving and indexing electronic newsletters (such as this one!) alongside the print library literature.
“Writing For the Web: A Primer For Librarians” by Eric H. SchnellCreating and providing access to web documents, from the library perspective.
“A Checklist of Considerations for Writing a Book [...]
Sep 01 2002
Henson, Kenneth T. Writing For Professional Publication: Keys To Academic and Business Success. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1999. ISBN 0-205-28313-6. $24.95.
As the title is aimed specifically at college professors, its suggestions will be most applicable to academic librarians who are interested in expanding their professional writing careers. There is [...]