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Category Archives: Librarianship
How to Promote Library Events
One of the most difficult parts of the job for many librarians is to draw an audience for the programs they offer at their libraries. They seem to do everything right: schedule the program well in advance, create fifty copies … Continue reading
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#calibconf 2011 Wrap-Up
This past weekend, November 12th and 13th, 2011, Ashley and I attended the California Library Association conference in Pasadena, California. What follows is my wrap up of the conference experience broken out by themes. It is not a comprehensive guide … Continue reading
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On Commitment in Librarianship
On Friday, June 17th, my job at the Lancaster Regional Library is coming to an end. This has caused me to spend some time lately thinking about my first year and three months as a professional librarian. Though my hour-long … Continue reading
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ALA Election Participation Survey – Results
[Quick Hits -- This is a fairly long post. If you're pressed for time: Skim the intro, take in the percentages of questions one and two, read question three, skim conclusion. Download .pdf of whole post for later.] Introduction A … Continue reading
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Public Libraries Make People’s Lives Better
Despite the obvious mission of public libraries, the unmeasured and often unmentioned return-on-investment with regards to them is the effect they have on the quality-of-life of the population which they serve. Individual and group happiness are only recently becoming viewed … Continue reading
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Phil Shapiro on Creative Libraries – A Partial Bibliography
In his post, Is It Time To Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries And Make “TechShops”? over at Make, Philip Torrone wrote about making libraries more useful by transforming them into “…factories that help make people who want to learn and … Continue reading
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How to Begin Your Research
[a printable .pdf of this article is available here] As a librarian working in an area surrounded by educational institutions of all levels, I am often approached by students looking for help in beginning their research. It is surprising to … Continue reading
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Discovering Books on Judaism Preserved by the Hathi Trust
The problem with many digital collections is that, no matter how useful and interesting they are, few regular people (read: non-experts) can find them. Naturally, it is within the scope of knowledge for librarians, information scientists, and specialized researchers that … Continue reading
Libraries and Digital Books
I usually don’t respond off-the-cuff to news stories that come up pretty much on a daily basis, but there’s something in the current discussion of digital books (or ebooks) and libraries that does not make sense to me and I … Continue reading
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