Category Archives: LIS education
Toughening ourselves up as librarian-researchers: Follow up Post #1
I wasn’t aware that I posted my bit about disappointment with LIS conference research presentations smack dab in between the EBLIP6 conference and the launch of the UK-based Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project. Serendipity at it’s finest! Thanks … Continue reading
Filed under academic libraries, LIS education, research, The Profession
Niceness, Helpfulness & Ethics: Feedback edition
The Canadian Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada has a mentorship interest group. While I can be skeptical about institutional “leadership training” and am in that awkward adolescent phase of my career in which I’m not … Continue reading
Filed under ethics, inclusion/exclusion, LIS education
Evaluation, assessment, research & impact
Around the same time I noticed that a number of academic libraries were posting for new (or newish) “assessment librarians,” I went to a cool lecture by Dr. Eliza Dresang about a project teaming LIS researchers with children’s librarians to … Continue reading
Library Schools: Developing Librarians of the Future – Moving beyond Professionalism
As a recent graduate of a MLIS program, and based on discussions with classmates/recent graduates from across Canada, I am a little distressed by the sense of confusion recent graduates have regarding what it means to be a librarian. There … Continue reading
Filed under community development, LIS education, public libraries, The Profession
Sex, Gender & Librarianship
This is likely just a brain-dump of a teaser post, as it’s a topic I’ve just gotten started on, which could really grow into multiple posts as I explore it further in the future. I ran into Dean at my … Continue reading
Filed under gender, LIS education, The Profession
New Librarian and Archivist of Canada…an Economist?
What does it mean that the new Librarian and Archivist of Canada is neither a librarian nor an archivist; not even an author, but rather an economist? Daniel J Caron has been with Library & Archives Canada since 2003, in … Continue reading
Filed under government, government information, LIS education, preservation, The Profession
Free Speech and Patron Privacy are Corequisites for Intellectual Freedom
The book So you’ve probably heard about this library assistant (Sally Stern-Hamilton, aka Ann Miketa) in small-town Michigan (Luddington) who wrote a fiction book (“Library Diaries”) based upon her accounts of library patrons, and published it under her maiden surname … Continue reading
Warrentless library computer searches – what affects librarian response, and what can we learn from the news?
There have been a couple of high-profile cases this summer involving US law enforcement seeking library computers as evidence, and showing up without a warrant in hand: In Maryland, FBI agents took two computers from a Frederick County Library. The … Continue reading
Filed under Intellectual freedom, LIS education, privacy, public libraries, The Profession
A summer workshop on Black Studies and Information Technology
I had the privilege of meeting Abdul Alkalimat at the annual iConference, a gathering of faculty and students from schools that are part of the “iSchool movement.”* Abdul is a professor with a joint appointment in Information Studies and Black … Continue reading
Filed under LIS education, The Profession
