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Posts under ‘Library’
Academic Librarians and Library Scholarship
What would be the difference between librarians classified as faculty and librarians classified as staff? The first thing that comes to many people’s mind would be that faculty librarians are promoted based upon their scholarship/research outcome and are often given the title of professor just as other teaching faculty members in academic departments. But, really, [...]
Library Day in the Life – Day 3, 4, 5
This week has been so busy that I didn’t have time to write up my posts for the Library Day in the Life project since Wednesday this week. So here is the summary of what happened on my day 3, 4, 5 this week. People often think that being a librarian is a pretty undramatic [...]
Library Day in the Life – Day 2
8:30 I am ready to go to the university web group meeting for the three CMS vendor presentation today that begins at 9. But boy oh boy, I just hear from the colleague that Aleph 19-the new version we are upgrading today-needs to be downloaded anew from a completely different URL than what I was [...]
Library Now vs. Library of the Future
Have you ever heard remarks like these? * “Why do we need books? Everything is online.” * “Why do we need computers at a library? All our students have computers.” * “Why do we need a library? You can find everything on the Internet.” Many times, I have seen these sort-of arguments functioning as an [...]
Library Day in the Life – Day 1
Below is my post for Library Day in the Life Project I am writing down my everyday tasks here in the most mundane manner. But that is what it is like to work as a librarian every day. You do not get to do exciting projects everyday. Monday Morning I get into my office around [...]
Why a Library needs Comfy Chairs and Bright Colors
Have you ever thought about bringing in comfy chairs and painting library walls in bright upbeat colors? Would that make a difference to a library in any substantial way? Here is a library that said YES to this question. It is DOK-Library Concept Center, a Delft Public Library in Holland. Here are two videos about [...]
ERM Systems: The Promise and Disappointment
Some conference sessions are just irresistible because of their titles. For example, “Ultimate Debate: Has Library 2.0 fulfilled its promise?” Right? I know that “Electronic Resource Management Systems: The Promise and Disappointment” would have been just as irresistible to some librarians. If you deal with e-resources at work, whether you are cataloging them, acquiring them, [...]
Academic Librarians and Getting Published
When I was in a MLIS program, I was only vaguely aware of the fact that some academic librarians are appointed as faculty while some are not. Now that I work at a library where librarians are considered to be faculty (no tenure-track), publishing has become an issue of my interests lately. So I attended [...]
ALA 2009 sessions attended
Here is the sessions that I have attended at 2009 ALA annual. I am already forgetting to the order of the sessions and the discussions that took place in each session. Hopefully, the presentations would be soon posted at ALA Connect so that I can take a look. I also wish the detailed content and [...]