Mr. Library Dude. Reeling and Writhing and Fainting in Coils | Shannon Marie Robinson: artist and librarian. Brain activity in dead salmon and wine in a blender: or, what i learned at AAAS 2013 In mid-February I attended the American Association for the Advancement of Science ’s annual meeting. The theme of the five-day meeting was The Beauty and Benefits of Science . This theme supports the movement from STEM education to STEAM, adding Art to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Many of the panels focused on the use of visualizations and creative practices in the lab. Some of the panels I attended were very engaging to visual and performing artists. Here are some brief notes from those speakers. Artful Science (3 of 5 lectures) The Herbarium as Muse: Plant Specimens as Inspiration Maura Flannery (Biology, St. Dimension of Time in Strange Attractors Robert Krawczyk (College of Architecture, IIT) created software to generate algorithms.
Bends Through I by Krawczyk Echinodermania (detail) by Hart Evidence from Music, Fiction, and the Visual Arts: Transfer of Learning from the Arts? SarahGlassmeyer(dot)com. Marooned Librarian | Watching the waves break from a sheltered information island. This blog entry is part of the Library Day in the Life Project coordinated by Bobbi Newman. I thought of four themes to emphasize about my week to help readers understand what a job in an academic library might be like: technology, communication, collaboration, and engagement. Technology Institutional Repositories VTechWorks, an institutional repository, was recently started at Virginia Tech.
We made some minor changes to the way that VTechWorks appears; a facelift of sorts. Before After The changes are mostly cosmetic; some people may even prefer the old version. The visual elements have been changed to look like Ensemble, Virginia Tech’s Content Management System. On Friday, an iPad 2 became available for checkout from the library, and I found a few problems with the new interface.
Blogging I took an introductory course on blogging this week, which resulted in this new blog. Accessibility I want to learn more about web accessibility for disabled users. Future directions Communication Engagement. A week in the life of a library student « Clare's Aber Antics. This post is for round 8 of the Library Day in the Life Project. At the beginning of the week I didn’t think I was going to take part, as I didn’t do many library-related things on Monday.
However, the week has gradually filled up with lectures and reading, so here is a library student’s perspective. Background: I am studying full-time for MScEcon Information and Library Studies at Aberystwyth University. My views and experiences are not particularly controversial, but they are my own. This is Aberystwyth. Monday: no lectures for me today! Tuesday: Collection Management class from 11-12. I don’t have anything scheduled for the afternoon, so I go to the library on the main campus and start some Collection Management reading, and carry on writing about London. Tuesday evening sees me at a choir rehearsal. Wednesday: no lectures again today, as we found out yesterday that our occasional Wednesday class (Research in the Profession) won’t start be starting this week. Like this: Like Loading... Miss Alice. B. Ready to Read. Day in the Life of an Emerging Technologies Librarian 2012 – #libday8 | Emerging Technologies Librarian. 6:00am. Roust the kid out of bed.
Make coffee to pack in thermos. Check meeting schedule. Jeans day. I’m late. Logging into email, Google pops up their new privacy policy. Smile and wave at folks I know on the bus, but I’m sucked into email now. Email from my first morning meeting asks how my library will promote student app contest. In Twitter had missed two private messages, one to participate in a Twitter chat on dying with dignity, #DWDchat at 3pm PST (6pm EST), another prompting me to participate in a Google Hangout for planning our upcoming conference presentation. At the bus depot. 8:30am. Comment on student health communication blog. 9am Meeting with Open Michigan. 10:30am. 10:35am. 10:36am. 10:55am. 11:00am. 11:38am. 11:45am. 12noon. 12:30pm. 1:30pm. 3:00pm. 5:30pm. 6:30pm. 7:20pm. 9:00pm. 10:30pm. 11:00pm. Like this: Like Loading... Emerging Technologies Librarian | PF Anderson's virtual explorations. Special Collections and Archive -
Tombrarian | Ongoing thoughts about media and technology librarianship. Head above the parapet. Binary library. Lilian's library life. Heather Martin | Yes, you have seen me at the library. Wee Bookworm. News and Information from Hackley Public Library. Variegated stacks. The Public Health Informationist. Bibliosaurus Rex: Beyond 140 Characters. "The Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent agency that makes grants to museums and libraries. This is not a core federal responsibility. This function can be funded at the state and local level and augmented significantly by charitable contributions from the private sector. " — Proposed House Budget 2014 Wow!
Try opening www.okcupid.com in Firefox and see what happens. Now THAT is taking quite a stand. First ever reference shift just started….right now I feel like I’m babysitting the microfilm readers. Someone just sent me their organization’s spreadsheet for planning their tweets. Justin The Librarian. Melon The Librarian. A Digital Library Intern at LIU Post. Web Librarian | One of those "newfangled techy librarians." Or something like that. (It’s a possible mis-quote of my department head. He was trying to make me feel better with this statement, and it was surprisingly effective.) This is the story of Librarians Build Communities (LBC) in Alaska. To jog your memory: LBC is an advocacy program, where librarians do a few hours of volunteering, using library skills outside of libraries, to showcase how valuable our skillsets can be to our communities.
I was on last year’s ALA Emerging Leaders group, working on the LBC project, and one of the to-do items on our project was “Host LBC in … Continue reading “STEM” is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. We have a shortage of STEM majors of any gender in the US right now, but the shortage of women in STEM is particularly damaging. I’ve been writing a lot of serious business kinds of posts lately (and I have another queued up), so let’s take a bit of a break, shall we? An explanation of what’s up with these questions is available here. Goings on of a Medical Librarian | … it's all about the new. Apprentice Librarian · Wondering and Wandering through a World of Information.
Michael's Mind - What Thoughts I Think. Biblioease.com. Tom Roper's Weblog. Letters to a Young Librarian. Ellie <3 libraries. Exit, Pursued by a Bear. Squirrel Library. Wordshore | Authoring, publishing, writing, reading, literacy, libraries and librarians. Jkbeitz | Academic law librarian. Amateur photographer and beaded jewelry-maker. Tea drinker. Wife to a cyclist. Mom to a toddler. Loves a good timesuck. Library Day in the Life Project / FrontPage. The Project is now closed and will remain as an archive. You can read more about Bobbi's decision to close the Project here.
The Library Day in the Life Project was a semi-annual event coordinated by Bobbi Newman of Librarian by Day. Twice a year librarians, library staff and library students from all over the globe shared a day (or week) in their life through blog posts, photos, video and Twitter updates. Whether you are a librarian or library worker of any kind, help us share and learn about the joys and challenges of working in a library.
Join us by sharing details of your day for a week on your blog..Not only is this a great way for us to see what our colleagues are doing and how they spend their days but it’s a great way for students who are interested in the library profession to see what we really do. Library Day in the Life Project by Bobbi Newman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Adventures of an Ambulance Riding Librarian: What's a librarian doing on an ambulance? What's a librarian doing on an ambulance? Good question.
I’m learning, researching, networking and usually having too much fun. But that's not all I do. The Fellowship provides an opportunity for me to learn about prehospital and in-hospital emergency medical services, mass casualty incidents and disaster preparedness for health services. That means I get to observe in settings that aren't usually open to information professionals. I have the best health informationist job ever.
Just so you know it's not all take-take-take, here are some of the services I provide for the four agencies I serve:Content curation from legal, medical, government, social media and open source resourcesReview mobile apps on emergency medicine, HAZMAT, drug calculators and other EMS subjectsSystematic reviews & literature searches Teach bibliographic management software Special projects, including a community paramedic program.