As I feel myself closer towards having a position, (many interviews, some of them very good), I have been thinking a lot more about the practical side of being an academic librarian. Public service, of course. As well, the kind of training that seems to be suggested by library writers more in […]

I have been applying out to places for a while now, but this morning I had my first telephone interview. I don’t want to talk about it until I hear something official, but I can be unspecific and say that I think I did a good job. I have never really been extensively […]

I had my first little Library Journal book review published last month, a review of Kurt Vonnegut’s final collection of essay and stories Armageddon in Retrospect. No one at the magazine indicated to me what self-archiving rights I had, so I don’t know if I can reproduce it, but the link to it is […]

I stumbled across the nice JSTOR upgrade today. Looks much better than their older version, very easy on the eyes.

Why is it that so often in my courses we completely ignore the history of library literature when learning about the issues which are so important to both professional practice and theoretical discussions of libraries?

I ask this questions as I read a great book by Patrick Wilson, Second-Hand Knowledge: An Inquiry Into Cognitive Authority (1983). […]