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Some Recent Links! It’s been a while since I posted, but there are several links that might be useful to you! Bobbi Newman’s So You Want To Be A Librarian: This post pulls together nearly every piece of web content on exactly this topic! Interview with Library Juice Press The other day I did an interview with Rory Litwin on writing So You Want To Be a Librarian.
Guest. So you want to know about graphic novels, yes?
Well you’ve come to the right place. What have you learned about these fantastic items so far? What’s that? That they’re just “comic books”?? And that they’re only for children?? So back when I was working on my MLIS, I came across an article about a book, Daisy Kutter and the Last Train by Kazu Kibuishi, and how it could be used in the classroom. It seems as if the biggest problem people have with graphic novels, is that they’re pictures with words, so that means it’s a kids’ book. So did I use that argument to start building the graphic novel collection at my library? Me: “People are reading them.
Others: “So? Me: “OK...well we’ve got Maus Volume One and Persepolis Volume Two. Others: “Fine.” Me: “Well...while we’re at it these books here recently won some big awards, like Eisner’s and National Book Awards, etc.” Other: “Fine, give me the titles and I’ll look at it. And that’s how the collection I built started. Name says: “forsoth I say!” The Librarian Kate. I spent the bulk of this week following the sturm und drang around the highly popular Slate article “This Is What a Librarian Looks Like.”
It shocked many (including the photographer, Kyle Cassidy!) To see such divisive thoughts over such a feel-good piece, a fine form of advocacy to the general public for libraries and librarians. Initially, I was in the camp that wasn’t keen on the whole idea, but I’ve been swayed (somewhat, you’ll see why that is the case below) on the force of good this is for the profession. Initially, I wanted to write a rebuttal to the whole thing, but the more I thought, the more I wanted to take in what I saw and heard, and attempt to make some sense of it, with the goal of bringing understanding to everyone why such a wonderful gesture of time and talent on the photographer’s part made some people so cross, as opposed to outlining why I think photographic pieces like this are wrong. Who Cares What I Look Like? Really? I’m still struggling to reconcile this. Development of Emerging & Aspiring Librarians.
Speaking of Information. Librarianship. Librarianship So, You Want to Be a Hospital Librarian?
By Elizabeth on December 12, 2013 · 0 comments in guest post, librarians, librarianship, libraries, medical libraries What Is a Clinical Librarian? Hacklibschool [licensed for non-commercial use only] / HackLibSchool. Main Page - TheLibraryRoutesProject. Library Day in the Life Project / Round 5, July 26th, 2010.
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