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 [...]
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, what [...]
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 [...]