The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. –Dante Inspired by the recent HackLibSchool post on the work/life balance on Twitter, I decided I had participated in the library…
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. –Dante Inspired by the recent HackLibSchool post on the work/life balance on Twitter, I decided I had participated in the library…
Last Friday I finished up a freelance project that lead me to daydream about Iowa’s mid-19th century railroad schemes. I followed up on an ad circulated through our department’s listserv to make contact with an independent researcher out of Missouri.…
Jillian Michaels has had a lot of appearances lately in the magazines I read, and when I saw her new book, Unlimited, displayed on a shelf at the Iowa City Public Library as I was browsing, I decided why the…
PDF viewable/downloadable here. To follow up on previous diversity discussions, people of color comprise 16%* of librarians (9% Black, 5% Latino, and 2% Asian). Regarding gender, 83% of librarians are women, and with MLS enrollment at 81% women, the trend…
Last night I finished Siva Vaidhyanathan’s Googlization of Everything, and rather than being scared away from customized search after reading the book, I find I am more drawn to it, especially when thinking about how to improve search for academic libraries.
I’m dedicating part of my time this summer to freelance projects, something I might not get to do after completing my MLIS degree and getting a FT job (*crosses fingers*).
Great video by a SLIS student at Syracuse, Dan Enders. Thirty-second answer to “Why does one need a master’s degree to become a librarian?” is proposed at minute 2:20. Enders addresses the question from a school media and teacher-librarian perspective.…
I wish I was about to have my Goonies moment, one where I make an impassioned speech to fellow LIS students about how this is our time. How we need to advocate for this profession by making change happen, deciding…
The following book review was turned in for an assignment in my Research Methods class. We were required to choose a book that required intensive research in its development process. I chose Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together: Why We Expect More…