Looking at this list of competencies for new sci/tech librarians LIS News highlighted makes me wonder what the core competencies of a new news librarian might be and whether we ought to have one for our profession.
A friend wondered which periodicals I read regularly. The answer I gave him was rather incomplete because I didn’t explain that most of the reading I do is issue/topic-based, not based on specific publications. I really only read one niche publication everyday right now and it’s for my job. Also, I subscribe to a number [...]
While I was reflecting on my life for the last year as I’ve been blogging, I realized I’ve met a lot of really cool people through the activity and a related support group for bloggers. Some of those people are a lot of fun to be around, really intelligent people interested in a variety of [...]