Archive for 'Professional Development'
Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Clearinghouse Makes It Easy To Track All The Rankings
When I last wrote about rankings I mentioned the growing number of different higher education rankings, everything from the top green campus institutions to the best party schools. I actually had no idea how many different rankings there were, but now I can find out much more [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 24th, 2008 under Higher Education, Just Thinking, Professional Development.
Comments: 2
Why A CLS And ULS
An interesting question was raised by Lisa Allen over at the Facebook page for the ACRL College Libraries Section. Lisa wanted to know why ACRL maintains separate sections for college and university librarians when it is likely that many of us share and deal with the same issues. So myself and two other CLS officers [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 9th, 2008 under ACRL News, Professional Development.
Comments: 4
How Dare They Reject My Conference Proposal
Academic librarians are the type of folks who will suffer in silence when dealing with a conference rejection. At best we may share our disappointment with a colleague or two or perhaps our supervisor, but in general (and yes, this is a generalization) I suspect that few academic librarians would make a public stink about [...]
Posted by StevenB on October 3rd, 2008 under Professional Development, Research Issues.
Comments: 2
Getting Your Ideas Out There First
Academic librarians are generally not competitive types. If we were we’d probably have gone to business school. But that competitive spirit may show up when it comes to presentations and publications. Getting a paper or panel accepted for ACRL’s 14th National Conference in Seattle was certainly a highly competitive process with just a twenty percent [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 25th, 2008 under Professional Development.
Comments: 1
The Letters And Titles You Add To Your Name
Not unlike the “we need tenure” / “we don’t need tenure” debate, librarians appear to be quite divided on whether members of our profession should add their degree(s) to business cards, on their e-mail signature or elsewhere. In a discussion taking place on this topic on friendfeed (thanks to StevenC for pointing to it) librarians [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 17th, 2008 under Professional Development, library careers.
Comments: 17