Mar 01 2006
“Libraries Build Communities.” Yes, we’ve all heard the tagline. We think less often, though, about the ways in which we create our own professional communities, about how we build the networks and forge the connections that allow us to be successful. Today’s contributors demonstrate that we are strongest in combination and [...]
Mar 01 2006
by The Library Career People
Q1: I am a new graduate living in Canada. I was confident that I could locate a professional job in an academic library or public library with my MLIS and Doctorate degree of Philosophy in Chinese History. I have been searching for jobs for seven months, but I [...]
Mar 01 2006
by Nanette Donohue
Imagine: thirty librarians, from a variety of library types, all at different stages of their careers, gathered in a large room with six round tables. Nobody is entirely sure what to expect, and there’s an atmosphere of nervousness and anticipation. The usual questions pop up: “Where do you [...]
Mar 01 2006
by John Hubbard
In the Beginning…
First, there were books. (Well, not really, but we’ll get back to cave paintings later!) To comment on a book, you could write one of your own. The age of journals shortened this rejoinder process, but it took the Internet to give us an instant mass publishing system. [...]
Mar 01 2006
by Sarah King Steiner
As a librarian-in-training, you face many demands on your time - classes, homework, a job, a marriage, a family - the list can go on and on. In the midst of all these school- and life-related responsibilities, committee service is something people often defer until after graduation. This [...]
Mar 01 2006
by Chrissie Anderson Peters
When I began at the Northeast State Community College library, I joined three librarians with fairly specific roles. Virginia, with the most service years at NSCC, was in charge of periodicals, John was the cataloger, and Annis did inter-library loan and acquisitions. NSCC gained two new positions from [...]
Mar 01 2006
The Blended Librarians Online Learning Community
Flickr: Photos Tagged Librarians
Hill, Chrystie R. “Everything I Need To Know I Learned Online.” Library Journal, Feb. 15 2005.
A Librarian At Every Table
Libraries Build Communities
New Communities, Physical and Virtual
On the Uses of the Biblioblogosphere
Mar 01 2006
Whitmell, Vicki, ed. Staff Planning in a Time of Demographic Change. Scarecrow, 2005. ISBN 0810852152. $40.
Whitmell brings together some of the more influential names in the library field, in a concise text. Clear throughout these essays is the theme that library staff is both aging and changing, and that the old [...]
Mar 01 2006
Schott, Michael J. Medical Library Downsizing: Administrative, Professional, and Personal Strategies for Coping with Change. Haworth Press, 2005. pap: ISBN 0789004208, $19.95. hc: ISBN 0789004135, $29.95.
Don’t let the title throw you off: Even if you have never been downsized, this book is highly recommended. Reading Medical Library Downsizing is like sitting down [...]