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ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Marydee Ojala |
Why I Library, and You Should Too As technology changes physical collections to electronic ones, and reshapes the entire notion of what a library is, the noun librarian is becoming even less appropriate for the profession.  |
D-Lib September 2006 Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2003 Marydee Ojala |
Certifying Information Professionals The issue of certification for librarians and other information professionals is one of long-standing -- it's never been completely resolved and is not destined to fade into the sunset.  |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2008 Marydee Ojala |
ONLINE's Got a Brand New Tag: Exploring Technology & Resources A publication for information professionals changes its tag line to include technology and resources.  |
ONLINE March 2001 Marydee Ojala |
Distributed Librarianship A growing trend in librarianship is something I like to call "distributed librarianship." I base my definition loosely on distributed computing, where several computers are connected via a network to share aspects of tasks...  |
ONLINE Jan./Feb. 2007 Marydee Ojala |
Time for an Anniversary Party The information professionals' use of online technologies and electronic content predates the personal computer and the World Wide Web.  |
D-Lib October 2007 Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record.  |
Information Today October 15, 2009 |
Dialog Reaches Out to Unemployed Librarians The company is waiving standard Dialog startup and service fees, offering free Dialindex service, and throwing in a 10% discount on Dialog usage to librarians and information  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2004 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage: Expect the Unexpected Leaving ourselves open to serendipitous results, not restricting our searches to where we think the answer is, and relying on our instincts, not just logic, are important information professional behaviors.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2005 Marydee Ojala |
Talk About My Generation Let's not have age wars interfere with the basic mission of the information professional--getting information to the people that need it, when they need it, and in the form they need it. Whatever their generation may be.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2005 Marydee Ojala |
Ownership, Access, Retrieval, and Sharing Today, it's about sharing. Collaboration tools are in vogue. Online discussion lists and blogs encourage the sharing of thoughts, opinions, expertise, and even links to journal articles.  |
Information Today November 17, 2011 |
New Resources From NoveList to Connect Library Patrons to Services The NoveList website and a corresponding Facebook page have been designed to help librarians connect their patrons to more books and more library services.  |
Searcher January 2004 Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources...  |
ONLINE November 2000 Bob Ainsbury & Michelle Futornick |
The Revenge of the Library Scientist Business professionals would be surprised at just how suited librarians are to the dot com world...  |
Information Today September 2, 2014 |
Libraries Unlimited and IASL Team Up for Book Series Libraries Unlimited, part of ABC-CLIO, LLC, partnered with the International Association of School Librarianship to launch a book series that will contribute to the development of global school librarianship.  |
Searcher August 2002 Cynthia L. Shamel |
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2003 Marydee Ojala |
Homepage: Empowering Researchers Putting powerful information tools in the hands of millions of Office 2003 users raises the possibility that there are no more "end users," that we're all researchers now.  |
Searcher March 2011 Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Educating Special Librarians -- "The Past Is Prologue" When we began writing this series of articles addressing survival lessons for special libraries, we had more questions than answers; this is still the case.  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2012 Marydee Ojala |
Value, Vision, and Big Data Librarians understood Big Data before Big Data was cool -- and before it gained such popularity. Information professionals must seize these opportunities and convince those outside the profession that we bring significant value to the Big Data world.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2011 Marydee Ojala |
The New Normal for Online Research We need to embrace the new normal and take advantage of new technologies to flourish as information professionals. The new normal isn't about survival; it's about transformation and creative approaches to data, information, and knowledge.  |
Information Today September 2000 Barbara Quint |
Qunit's Online: Recruiting a Corporate Dream Team The advantages of hiring a librarian and how to go about it.  |
D-Lib May 2003 James W. Marcum |
Visions: The Academic Library in 2012 The future of the academic library is a topic of continuing concern for the profession, but usually the boundaries of projected visions are set firmly in the issues of the day. What means might be found to break open those constraints and encourage visions projected further into the future?  |
Searcher August 2002 Rebecca T. Lenzini |
The Graying of the Library Profession A survey of our professional association and their responses.  |
Searcher September 2002 Barbara Quint |
The Eternal Watchdog What exactly will information professionals -- librarians or professional searchers or whatever you want to call us -- do in the future? What set of skills will we possess that will both identify us to our clients and earn us the big bucks?  |
Searcher August 2002 Mary-Ellen Mort |
The Info Pro's Survival Guide to Job Hunting An effective online job search strategy you can adapt to your own career focus and industry target.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2010 Marydee Ojala |
Redefining Information In the digital age, information has escaped from the library. It's not on the shelves, neatly labeled by format. It's not contained by any specific device. It's on mobiles, embedded in social networks, and integral to websites. Search is the oxygen of today's information user.  |
Information Today March 5, 2015 |
New Report Shows Librarians' Attitudes Toward Access Management Services Librarians generally respond positively to challenges in access management, but many feel that their organizations are behind the curve when it comes to current access management services.  |
Searcher Jul/Aug 2003 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice: IPI? Yippee! The future for librarians and information professionals.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2004 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage: Information Creation What information professionals overlook is the creative nature of information work--the act of information creation. We not only retrieve information, we transform that information into something new and different.  |
D-Lib August 2005 Paepcke et al. |
Dewey Meets Turing: Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative One of the more intriguing aspects of the Digital Libraries Initiative was its matchmaking coup of uniting librarians and computer scientists.  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2009 Pamela Rollo |
Disruption and Vision: Allies of Innovation In this Dickensian year, some information professionals are indeed finding a silver lining, deciding it is time to innovate, to take advantage of the rifts in the status quo, to leave old practices behind, and to improvise.  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2003 George R. Plosker |
The Information Industry Revolution: Implications for Librarians Does the word "library" adequately convey the utility and value of what librarians, and in this case, corporate or special librarians, contribute to their organizations?  |
Information Today October 29, 2012 |
EBSCO Offers Library & Information Science Source Library & Information Science Source is a full-text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science.  |
Searcher May 2010 Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters -- News/Media Libraries Hit Hard A discussion of the events and circumstances affecting media organizations and their libraries under difficult economic conditions.  |