Neuroscience
Ok, this is a meme I can get behind: Three Beautiful Things, in which Clare says "[e]very day I want to record three things that have given me pleasure. This 3BT site is the original Three Beautiful Things."
How about Three Beautiful Librarian Things?
1. SFX. I'm still thinking about what a great thing OpenURL / link resolvers are. Reference life is so much better with their help.
2. Academic Search Premier and other full-text databases. Reference life is so much easier with good quality, full-text databases.
3. Library school students. I see the library's future, and it's very cool.
Thanks to the FeelGoodLibrarian for starting me on this path. I may make this a periodic post.
- Leaving New England ... Moving To North Carolina!
The CogSci Librarian is on the move! I am leaving my position as Electronic Resource Librarian at the University of Connecticut on April 30. I'll be moving to North Carolina to serve as the director of the Park Library at the School of Journalism...
- More Library Instruction Or Better Database Interfaces?
My librarian friend Emily Alling recently posted a question on Facebook asking if you were the head of a reference department: which should / would get more priority, more instruction on how to use library resources, or better interfaces for those resources?...
- The Future Of Reference
A colleague (hi Terry!) asked me to speak on a panel in his class about the future of reference. I'm a poor prognosticator (tho' I like to say the word), but I have a few thoughts. Here's a bit of what I said in class: Even before I talk about...
- Code4lib Thoughts (secondhand)
One of my favorite programmers (ProgrammerGuy) went to the Code4Lib conference & gave us an update on some of the interesting things he saw / heard / thought about while there. Here are three of the things that most interested me from his talk. 1. LibraryFind...
- Real Life Librarian Blogs
These two blogs are great for prospective reference librarians – they tell what reference library work is really like, as opposed to sources and formal reference theory which is what I teach at Simmons. Both have graciously allowed me to use their experiences...
Neuroscience
Three Beautiful Librarian Things
Ok, this is a meme I can get behind: Three Beautiful Things, in which Clare says "[e]very day I want to record three things that have given me pleasure. This 3BT site is the original Three Beautiful Things."
How about Three Beautiful Librarian Things?
1. SFX. I'm still thinking about what a great thing OpenURL / link resolvers are. Reference life is so much better with their help.
2. Academic Search Premier and other full-text databases. Reference life is so much easier with good quality, full-text databases.
3. Library school students. I see the library's future, and it's very cool.
Thanks to the FeelGoodLibrarian for starting me on this path. I may make this a periodic post.
- Leaving New England ... Moving To North Carolina!
The CogSci Librarian is on the move! I am leaving my position as Electronic Resource Librarian at the University of Connecticut on April 30. I'll be moving to North Carolina to serve as the director of the Park Library at the School of Journalism...
- More Library Instruction Or Better Database Interfaces?
My librarian friend Emily Alling recently posted a question on Facebook asking if you were the head of a reference department: which should / would get more priority, more instruction on how to use library resources, or better interfaces for those resources?...
- The Future Of Reference
A colleague (hi Terry!) asked me to speak on a panel in his class about the future of reference. I'm a poor prognosticator (tho' I like to say the word), but I have a few thoughts. Here's a bit of what I said in class: Even before I talk about...
- Code4lib Thoughts (secondhand)
One of my favorite programmers (ProgrammerGuy) went to the Code4Lib conference & gave us an update on some of the interesting things he saw / heard / thought about while there. Here are three of the things that most interested me from his talk. 1. LibraryFind...
- Real Life Librarian Blogs
These two blogs are great for prospective reference librarians – they tell what reference library work is really like, as opposed to sources and formal reference theory which is what I teach at Simmons. Both have graciously allowed me to use their experiences...