thegloballibrarian: This is the NU Library Halloween event concocted by my awesome colleagues.  It’s been our most successful marketing scheme to date and I think it’ll be a big hit - stay tuned for info on how it turns out. ____________________________________________ Incidentally, I rolled out of bed and checked my stats for this site - read in ten countries and counting!  I am such a nerd for data. Another attractive library program promotion. Librarians are really stepping up our game!
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thegloballibrarian:

This is the NU Library Halloween event concocted by my awesome colleagues.  It’s been our most successful marketing scheme to date and I think it’ll be a big hit - stay tuned for info on how it turns out.

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Incidentally, I rolled out of bed and checked my stats for this site - read in ten countries and counting!  I am such a nerd for data.

Another attractive library program promotion. Librarians are really stepping up our game!

Abraham de Jesus the Digital Projects Librarian

Abraham, in a rare moment of stillness during a year of rapid career change.

1. Can you tell us about your position?

I just started a new position as part-time Digital Projects Librarian at York University. My two main focuses will be working with York’s online journal platform, York Digital Journals, which is run on the OJS [Open Journal Systems] software and supporting York Space, their institutional repository.

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It was essentially a crash course in the open source community, repositories, digital asset management and preservation. It set me on my current path, especially since my previous education is definitely not in computer science or tech. However, I find the field to be full of interesting opportunities and challenges. — Abraham de Jesus the Digital Projects Librarian, this week’s Five Question Friday interviewee [photo via]
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It was essentially a crash course in the open source community, repositories, digital asset management and preservation. It set me on my current path, especially since my previous education is definitely not in computer science or tech. However, I find the field to be full of interesting opportunities and challenges.

— Abraham de Jesus the Digital Projects Librarian, this week’s Five Question Friday interviewee

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Haha, that one time (AKA five minutes ago) I tweeted at my university library apologizing for having so many books overdue and that I had returned them and someone tweeted me back thanking me, then direct messaged me saying that they even renewed a couple of my books to prevent more fines from accumulating.
I feel very ridiculous, but also, how cool is that?

Airmail: Oh, Twitter. 

More excellent social media service from libraries.

Also, as I assure my patrons — Everyone gets fines. Even me, and I’m at the library four times a week.

Let’s just be ourselves. Be service organizations. Help our communities. Be useful. Get things done. Let everyone else judge whether we’re cool or not. ——Daniel Ransom, otherwise known as The Pinakes, famed tumblr librarian/rugbyist, and next week’s Five Question Friday interviewee [image via]
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Let’s just be ourselves. Be service organizations. Help our communities. Be useful. Get things done. Let everyone else judge whether we’re cool or not.

——Daniel Ransom, otherwise known as The Pinakes, famed tumblr librarian/rugbyist, and next week’s Five Question Friday interviewee

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Most of the students that come into the library for help with their research are in a hurry. They want 3 articles, a website and a book and their paper is due in 2 days and they want it now. And by now, I mean now, not 5 minutes from now. I think that Google has made people expect instant results. I try to teach students that it may take more than 5 minutes to find what they need for their assignment but I think very few understand or even care. —Nancy Little, a former classmate of mine and a current academic reference librarian, dishes on library school, the joys of research, and library instruction in this week’s Five Question Friday [photograph via]
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Most of the students that come into the library for help with their research are in a hurry. They want 3 articles, a website and a book and their paper is due in 2 days and they want it now. And by now, I mean now, not 5 minutes from now. I think that Google has made people expect instant results. I try to teach students that it may take more than 5 minutes to find what they need for their assignment but I think very few understand or even care.

—Nancy Little, a former classmate of mine and a current academic reference librarian, dishes on library school, the joys of research, and library instruction in this week’s Five Question Friday

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academic library as ultimate place to be

libraryjournal:

From Gawker, Scene Outside College Library Looks Like Walmart on Black Friday:

For students at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, trying to secure a prime study spot in the library during the “reading days” before Finals Week has become as harrowing and dangerous as trying to purchase $2 waffle iron on Black Friday. Trampling! Pepper spray! These are now part of their library experience.

H/T radicalmilitantlibrarian.