I was very pleased that the Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) was held in Hamilton, Ontario this year since it made it easy for me to volunteer and therefore attend part of the conference for free.
The responsibilities of volunteering: On the first day of the conference (May 12), I convened an afternoon session: [...]
Save the date: October 18-24, 2010
A date has now been selected for International Open Access Week 2010. *hooray*
Program details will be available in the coming weeks and months at http://www.openaccessweek.org.
Last October, a significant number of academic libraries in North America took part in Open Access Week, promoting OA publishing initiatives through hosting guest speakers and [...]
Will skills like acting and directing soon be added to the list of qualifications on a typical library job ad?
Maybe not.
But there are a lot of interesting ways that librarians are using video to promote librarianship, library services, library resources and themselves. Meanwhile, there is a growing demand for media services librarians in public and [...]
Library Day in the Life is a wiki started by Bobbi Newman in July of 2008.
Since then, a number of librarians have been periodically contributing to the wiki, adding links to their blogs, Flickr accounts and Twitter feeds where they have documented what it is like to work in a library on a day-to-day basis.
If [...]
Over the last week I, like many, have been consumed by devastating reports coming from Haiti and looking for ways to help.
That said, I just wanted to acknowledge the efforts of one librarian at Valdosta State University’s Odum Library in Valdosta, Georgia. Technology librarian Cliff Landis matched donations of $10 000 for Partners in Health.
For [...]
From time to time, I thought that I would include information here about innovative, interesting, and inspiring things that recent library school graduates & new librarians are doing to support their communities, workplaces, and/or the profession as a whole. That said…
This holiday season, my friend and fellow library school graduate Colleen MacKinnon is [...]