I was reading an interesting article from Research Information the other day, “Web 2.0 fails to excite today’s researchers” by David Stuart. My job as a librarian is to help researchers at my institution do their research more efficiently and productively, and technology plays a big role in that. There is a number of useful [...]
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My MLIS program experience
Thanks to a blog post, “MLIS Programs Need To Be Revamped,” I had a chance to reflect on my MLIS program experience. I am a relatively new graduate. Like many other LIS students, I have attended the program part-time while working full-time at libraries. Although I wished a few times that I were attending the [...]
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, [...]