Archive for 'Just Thinking'
In The Sweatshop Or Reaping The Lottery Win
Are you feeling overworked these days? Do you feel the pressure to publish, present and serve on a dozen different committees? Does it seem like you are trying to do the work of two librarians, and that you just never have time to get much of anything truly constructive done? If so, welcome to the [...]
Posted by StevenB on July 27th, 2010 under Just Thinking, library careers.
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Reflections On Blogging
Editor’s Note: ACRLog is hosting a team of ALA Emerging Leaders. Each month one of our Emerging Leaders will contribute a guest post, and each will focus on some aspect of gearing up for the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. This month the series takes on a slightly different topic than the Annual Conference. [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 14th, 2010 under Just Thinking.
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Reflections on Service
By now I’m sure everyone’s seen Thomas Benton’s article in praise of academic librarians in last week’s Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s getting a lot of link love in the blogosphere, and was in the top five most viewed and emailed articles on the Chron’s website early this week. I love being a librarian and [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on May 29th, 2010 under Just Thinking, Public Services.
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Zen and the Art of Information Literacy
Last month marks two years that I’ve been at my job as an Information Literacy Librarian, and I’ve spent some time recently reflecting on how much has changed. There are certainly more students on campus (as at many colleges and universities), which means more bodies in the library, more classes to teach, more questions at [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on April 2nd, 2010 under Information Literacy, Just Thinking.
Comments: 7
Must Scheduling be Sisyphean?
I was planning to post last week about something interesting I’d read in the library or higher ed news and literature, but I haven’t kept up with my reading as much as usual recently. The task that’s been occupying my time? Scheduling our English Comp library instruction sessions. It’s not the most glamorous or fun [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on February 15th, 2010 under Just Thinking, Simplicity vs. Complexity.
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