Here are a couple of videos put out by the American Library Association in preparation for National Library Week (April 13-19). Each of these two videos is funny but they get their respective points across. Who knew that reference librarians answer 7.2 million questions per week! Or, that if the subscription [...]
This week’s Chronicle has an article on young librarians and what some of their thoughts are for the profession in the future. Be sure to listen to their audio files that are linked on the side of the page. It gives more information than just in the text of the article.
One of the [...]
The latest issue (July 2007) of Library Issues asks the question, “Who needs a reference desk?” It is written by Steven Bell, the author of the blog post on ACRLog which I referenced in yesterday’s post. It is a much more thorough. Here are a few quotes that I pulled from it [...]
I’m going to post a few updates to some previous posts because I thought some people might be interested in hearing further about these topics.
1. Remember me posting something about the University of Illinois Library who created a Facebook application for searching the library catalog? Apparently, Facebook has decided that these are not worthy [...]
I came across two different posts (”So what if we do pander to students” & “Debating the future of the reference desk“ 
both on the ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) blog and thought they were interesting enough to share with you all. Now, you’re probably thinking, “Eric, you posted two videos today, [...]
