It’s the time of year again when I devote a week’s worth of blog posts to my daily librarianly activities. Yes, it’s Library Day in the Life time again. So far I have taken part in rounds 2, 3 and 4. I find the process of writing about my week at work a useful reflective tool. I don’t write a diary, I just don’t have the will power to keep going day after day but I love the idea of creating these snapshots of my life every now and again. In my post introducing round 4 I wrote a list [...]
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What do I do?
Over the past few weeks I have been mulling over the question of how librarians are viewed from outside the profession. A topic which has been much discussed on blogs and Twitter but always within the echo chamber. I am prepared to admit that I am absolutely useless at promoting the profession; I don’t know why but I just can’t talk about what I do. I am aware however that if we’re ever going to break down the stereotypes then people like me need to get bolder about talking about what we do and why it’s important. This seems more [...]
Librarians as Teachers (afternoon session)
This is the second part of my writeup of the Librarians as Teachers event I attended this week. If you haven’t already read it you might want to catch up with what happened in the morning session which I covered in my first post. Kicking off the afternoon which was promised to be more active in order to keep us awake after lunch was Geoff Walton from Staffordshire University. He started by telling us that we could learn lessons about information literacy by reading Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science. I’ve not read it but we’ve got a copy so I think [...]
