Who we are when we’re not in the library
Another topic I’ve been thinking about lately is professional identity. I know a lot of people who are happy to come in to work eight hours a day, but don’t plan to continue their work at home. I know...
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Book Review Published
As much as I love online content creation, I like the dead-tree stuff, too. My most recent contribution to that realm is here, in Feminist Collections: It’s a book review of The Blackwell Guide to...
View ArticleOpen Access Notes
Today my place of work had an inter-library workshop on Scholarly Communication. Yay!! So, in the spirit of professional development reporting, here are my notes: Molly Keener kicked off with an...
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I’ve written something in Computers In Libraries
I don’t read very many journals or trade magazines cover to cover. Most of my professional development reading happens online, and most of that is in the blogosphere. However, one of the ones that I do...
View ArticleWhat is scholarship? Who has authority?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about access to information and the creation of knowledge. My thinking focuses on this: The point of creating new knowledge is to help us understand our world better....
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Librarians as Experts, Who We (Librarians) Are, & a Few Grants
I’ve not been around this blog too much for the past many months. It has something to do with this amazing little guy: Even with this entirely new sphere of things in my personal life, I’ve still been...
View ArticleBlogging and Tenure
One of the things that has come up in a few offline conversations I’ve had lately has been about the value of blogging in a tenure environment. The obvious answer: it doesn’t count. But there is an...
View ArticleThe Importance of a Research Agenda
I’ve been having conversations lately about the importance of a research agenda. To me, it seems very closely to the discussion of goals that pops up from time to time. Some of my professional friends...
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