Steve Campion writes: I was building a library card gallery (scroll down the page: http://www.wa-list.com/?p=418) and decided to gather them together in one image. The mosaic came from that. I think the gallery is pretty cool. It shows off the individual cards and the variety and vitality of the public libraries across the state. 85% of the libraries — large and small — contributed cards or images for my gallery/mosaic.
Monthly Archives: August 2013
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I thoroughly enjoy Brian’s columns at Publisher’s Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/58574-how-to-land-a-library-job.html A snip: Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: if you want to be hired as a librarian, get ready to move. Many of you are probably already in a large city or a university town with a library school, plenty of recent graduates, a public library that hasn’t hired anyone since 2008, and academic libraries that are only making part-time appointments. You’re going to need to look nationally, especially to land that first position. This is tough love—the sort I ignored back in the early 1980s. When […]
Honored to have written a third joint column with Aaron Schmidt! http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/07/opinion/aaron-schmidt/creating-a-library-lis-feedback-loop/ Recent articles from voices in the field of library and information science (LIS) have questioned the value of the MLIS or pointed toward an uncertain and evolving future. Former LJ editor in chief Michael Kelley’s “Can We Talk About the MLS?” garnered much attention. Kelley argues that the profession should have a serious conversation about the values and merits of formalized, professional LIS education. Is the library degree, in his words, “an expensive and unnecessarily exclusionary credential”? Kelley’s call for discussion is a sound one and is echoed in Brian […]