Category: professional development
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ASIST08: Tagging as a Communication Device
The second session I attended yesterday dealt with tagging, another subject I’ve been drawn to during my year in library school. Heather Pfeiffer of New Mexico State University gave an overview of ontology building. She used the framework of language—syntax, semantics, and pragmatics—to talk about how we construct ontological frameworks, and she placed tagging within…
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ASIST08: Day One
Attending a conference where there are people you know is a million times better than one where you don’t. I’m a shy person (shocker!) so without a liaison or two to introduce me to new people, the sad truth is a probably won’t meet new people. And I will wander around awkward and alone until…
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A Day in the Life of a Librarian
The Library Day in the Life project, inspired by blogger Bobbi Newman, is definitely worth checking out for all the aspiring librarian students out there: A growing number of librarians are signing up, and writing about a day in their work life on their blogs. The project is reminiscent of a book I’ve been reading:…
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The Creative Library
The Urban Library Journal’s Spring 2008 issue is dedicated to creativity in the library. There are some really terrific articles in here, on library transformation, using technologies in new ways in the library, and promoting work and leisure in libraries. I’ve never read this journal before, but I want to sit down and read this…