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 [...]
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Have you ever heard remarks like these? * “Why do we need books? Everything is online.” Many times, I have seen these sort-of arguments functioning as an excuse for not tending [...] 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 8:30-ish. Fixes [...] 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 this [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] 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 presentations/presenters [...] I am opening this blog right after attending 2009 ALA annual conference in Chicago. It was my first ALA conference, and I was twittering for fun. From the twittering throughout the conference, I came to learn that an amazing number of awesome librarians are actively twittering and blogging in order to record their thoughts and [...] |
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