Category Archives: libraries and librarians

Dragging a Stick and Other Obsurdities in Research

By Iris | Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
With Fall Term looming, my colleagues and I have been thinking more and more intentionally about where our students are, where we want them to be, and how to move them closer to that second point. To kick of “Aaah, the students will be here soon” season, my colleagues and I from the 5 liberal [...]
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What’s In a Term?

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
One of the things I love about language is how inexact it is. I went through a phase of bemoaning that very quality (“Life would be so much simpler if language were more more exact,” or even “Life would be so much simpler if all the rest of you people would use language more precisely”). [...]
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Have Interest – Will Adopt New Conference

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
For the last couple of years, I’ve been wondering just which conference I should adopt as “my” conference. I want it to be one where the sessions are thought provoking and where I’ll get to hang out with people I know and like and are interested in things I’m interested in, and where I can [...]
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"The Library" and Other Grand Unifications

By Iris | Published: Sunday, April 5th, 2009
A few weeks ago, while attending ACRL, I heard a question that nagged at my imagination: “If we define a doctor as ‘one who practices the art of healing,’ what is the analogous one-sentence definition of a librarian?” Yes, I know that boiling everything down we do into one sentence is a little bit absurd, [...]
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Reflecting on ACRL

By Iris | Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2009
This time around, ACRL was a better experience than last time, thanks in a large part to those of you who introduced yourselves to me, and to several of my LSW friends who spent a great evening together on Saturday. As I sat in the closing keynote (with IRA GLASS, people!!! Now that’s how to [...]
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