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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: [...] I was more excited than usual to find a copy of Feliciter in my mailbox today. The topic featured in this issue: Information policy. Topics like copyright reform, net neutrality, intellectual property and access rights might be complicated, sometimes intimidating, and occasionally dry. However, the issues surrounding these topics are central to librarianship and how resources [...] “Open access starts at home,” says Salo, who sees the profession as “disastrously timid about supporting experimentation and the business models we think preferable, speaking truth to power, even just modeling the behaviors we want faculty to adopt.” Issuing a call to arms, she warns, “We can’t just wring our hands about the serials crisis [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] I was poking around the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies’ Web site today when I stumbled upon this: A 1970 Orientation Video for the faculty’s library program (then delivered by what was known as the School of Library and Information Science, or SLIS). It’s an interesting snapshot into what the school was [...] It’s always good to take stock of what it’s all about. Thankfully, YouTube is there to help. An oldie but a goodie: And a more contemporary, comprehensive summary of the profession: Have you heard of the Library Routes Project? This wiki is providing new and future librarians with a great place to learn about the profession from seasoned professionals describing how they got to where they are today. Moreover, it has provided the impetus for my first blog entry and personal introduction. In what follows, I [...] |
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