Category Archives: libraries and librarians

The Crazy Thing about Linguistic Research

By Iris | Published: Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Just when you think you have something nailed down, turns out you were holding a cherry tomato and the nail just made the whole thing explode. I’m constantly figuring out how to be a better librarian to the disciplines I serve. I have pretty deep knowledge of the ways of literary research, since that was my [...]
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What is Information Literacy Anyway?

By Iris | Published: Monday, December 7th, 2009
Tomorrow I’m supposed to stand up in front of a group of faculty, all of whom are considering teaching one of the college’s new curriculum-wide freshman seminars next year, all of which must include some explicit practice developing information literacy. My task: explain information literacy to them in 10 easy minutes so that they can [...]
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Low-Key Cooperative Continual Professional Development

By Iris | Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2009
A few years ago, my library decided to start a cooperative blog where we’d alert each other to developments in the wider world of librarianship, highlight interesting things we’d learned, and generally help each other keep up. There was enthusiasm, there was drive, there was an interesting blog… and then it died. As far as I [...]
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Negotiating Intersecting Worlds

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
The librarians here at Carleton (and I’m sure at many other institutions) live right on the border between the world of faculty and students and the world of the other staff on campus. Especially here, where librarians are not faculty but tag along to many faculty functions, and where class schedules are not paced to [...]
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New Research Guides Went Live!

By Iris | Published: Monday, September 14th, 2009
This is probably only really exciting for me, but I’m SO EXCITED, so I thought I’d share. Those libguides we were working on over the last few months? Well, they went live today with the start of classes. I give you … [insert drum roll here] … Gould Guides! Now, as with any transition, some things [...]
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