It’s National Medical Librarians Month and MLA has all sorts of good ideas of ways you can “celebrate“
Category: librarians
there are good and bad reasons why you did not get the job
Matt Wilcox, who you may remember [see 3/8 entry] as having a keen sense of humor, tries to help us understand why he didn’t hire us.
I googled you and found that a) you are weird or maybe b) whine a lot on listservs with searchable archives or c) whatever. Do I know that this is wrong, that I should be evaluating your skills and not your personal life? Yes, of course. I am not stupid. Will I do it anyway? Yes, of course. After all, I am not stupid.
wanting to work someplace emotionally healthy
One academic librarian’s personal search for what she terms an “emotionally healthy” academic library to work in. Check the list of characteristics of emotionally UNhealthy libraries. Does yours qualify? Could it be fixed?
pay me more, I know IT
Law librarians in Scotland are commanding higher salaries because they are responsible for more IT. Now how can we make this true for public librarians?
Legal librarians were now responsible for managing powerful online information services and practice tools, as well as for teams of researchers and for ensuring that lawyers knew how to use the latest research tools and had all the extra information they needed for the specialisations. [shelf]
unintended consequences for econtent
The law of unintended consequences, applied to electronic content and how it works for and against information professionals.
he creative info pro will look at any new information resource and think about how to hack, er, repurpose it for other uses. I use the search functionality of the Wayback Machine to track the emergence of a catch phrase or hot-button issue over time. eBay is a great source for images of virtually any object, as well as a way to find old (but often still useful) textbooks. And some of the Whois domain name registries can be used to glean information on emerging customer dissatisfaction by locating what are delicately called “sucks sites,” since many of the domain names are some form of ThisCompanySucks.com. [lisnews]