Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Libraries, Beer, and Lobbying in Washington, DC

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On Monday, May 5th and Tuesday, May 6th hundreds of librarians will descend on Capitol Hill to lobby Congress for funding. National Librar...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Confessions of a Book Killer

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Gather round, and I'll tell you a story. In 2001 I worked for a large Midwestern research university on a grant from the National Sc...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Computers in Libraries Day 3: Ebooks and Content Management

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While my first day at Computers in Libraries had the discrete theme of discovery, and I returned to the library to get some work done on da...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Computers in Libraries Day 1: Discovery Track

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For the first day of Computers in Libraries, I attended presentations on discovery services . (I also presented a modified version of this ...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Third Time's a Charm: The BeerBrarian's Guide to Computers in Libraries 2014

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Since I live in DC, I thought an insider's perspective might be useful for the upcoming Computers in Libraries 2014 conference , which m...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Credentialing and Devaluation: More on 'Who's a Librarian?'

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If the Masters of Library and Information Science is in large part a credentialing regime that separates librarians from non-librarians, par...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Who's a Librarian?

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A librarian is someone who works in a library, provided a library is a collection of information that is organized in some systematic fashio...
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