Ever since I read v’s comment earlier today, I’ve been pondering library/information science education and how to make it more interesting. When I first read her post, I thought, “Yep, that’s cataloging class” (and several others that were requirements, too). One of the problems is that there are students of all levels in [...]
Ever since I read v’s comment earlier today, I’ve been pondering library/information science education and how to make it more interesting. read more
Dave set up a Yahoo! Group for our Thursday night blog group meetings. I’m spreading the word per his request. (Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to have a group blog instead of an old-fashioned e-mail discussion list?)
The October 17 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a subscriber-access-only First Person column about an English Ph.D. who was persuaded to go into librarianship after he couldn’t find a suitable teaching position. It sounds like switching to librarianship was the right career move for him: he was able to find an [...]
The link to this PC Magazine article was posted on a few of the discussion lists I’m on.