Now that I’m a member of the ALA…

07/30/2009 2 Comments

I’ve had some comments about the term “hipster librarian” so I guess I should post the source of that phrase…

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On Blogging

07/28/2009 2 Comments

So, in many respects I feel like I have done this before. And I don’t mean in the sense that I tried doing a fiction blog before, using WordPress. Instead, what I remember is, when I was studying abroad in England, I kept a LiveJournal, updating on my exploits and travels. In many respects, a blog is just the new face of LiveJournaling. So what’s different? There were comments, categories and sections and things if I remember right… What changed that made blogging explode? I can think of two main things, one technological and one more subtle. Read more of this post

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IST 511 – Day 5

07/26/2009 Leave a comment

This was hand-crafted in JFK on Saturday, but the WiFi in my wing did not work so well. Here we go!

So Friday was our poster session, which we did in the style of a conference poster session. Lots of topics, lots of people passing through with passing curiosity. Our main focus was to tackle a topic that is contentious for librarians – there are plenty of controversies on which librarians agree for the most part, after all. You can find Harry Potter on the shelves, right?

Our poster began as a search into controversial forms of funding libraries. After all, the American Library Association is against charging fees of any kind – to the point of being against overdue fines. Charging for services discriminates against those who cannot pay, and discourages those who can. Or so goes the argument. So what did we find? Read more of this post

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IST 511 – Day 4

07/23/2009 Leave a comment

Today we talked about library physical space and event programming; professional organizations, ethics, and professionalism; and of course about our poster project. The poster project is done (yay) and really, the lesson of everything, even wider than anything the professional organizations might say, is the basic theory of library science: Ranganathan’s “Five Laws of Library Science:” Read more of this post

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IST 511 intermission

07/23/2009 Leave a comment

Cue Monty Python music!

So, we watched this in class:

Now, we’re participating in their next video: Library 101. Read more of this post

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