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Observed Library Behaviour: A computer help desk front and centre
What a novel idea! MUN has put its computer help desk front and desk. You can see it as soon as you walk into the library. Crazy. It’s almost as if the computer people want to help you!
What? No obscure little office to find tucked way back, behind [...]
Follow-up on the bike lockers
Thank you to Dave for updating me on the bike locker situation! Since I’m away on vacation, I didn’t know that there was finally something online I could finally link to!
Now, I don’t want to continue the drama, I just wanted to be responsible and follow up with everyone.
I’m thrilled and excited [...]
Observed Library Behaviour: Queuing up instead of looking for a free employee (Part 2)
As I walked into the library this morning, I caught the eye of the Library Technician who had been so helpful a couple days ago with teaching me how to use the photocopier (yes, even librarians need help learning how to use photocopiers they’re not familiar with) and we both exchanged smiles. And then [...]
Posted by Laurie on July 27th, 2008 under Observed library behaviour | Comment now »Observed Library Behaviour: Queuing up instead of looking for a free employee (Part 1)
One of those things I’ve not understood as an employee is why students will line up behind a student already behind helped instead of seeking out another employee who is not occupied with a student.
Well, I think I’m starting to understand it.
A lot of it goes back to the uncertainty students feel in [...]
Resume reviewing service for new librarians
One of my top 5 posts, based upon hits, is one I wrote about preparing a CV to apply to academic librarian positions. It seems that this is an ongoing need and CACUL/CLA has recognized it!
Canadian Association of College and Universities Libraries, or CACUL, is a division of CLA and it has a committee [...]
Observed Library Behaviour: “Saving” a computer workstation for hours
The other day, while the computer techies were working to get the wireless going on my computer, I had need to use the computer workstations. Now, I normally wouldn’t use these computers, or go into a computer lab, for the reason that I’m not a student, normally. But right now, I am, and [...]
Posted by Laurie on July 23rd, 2008 under Observed library behaviour | 1 Comment »In an alternate reality, maybe this is how Brad and I would have met
If Brad was less of a gentleman, maybe this could have been how we met, don’t you think? LOL
Posted by Laurie on July 23rd, 2008 under Other | Comment now »Observed Library Behaviour: Not honouring the “Silent” Sign
Being in a library as a patron, not as an employee lets me see things as my patrons do at my home library. Very enlightening. I’m getting to observe library habits I wouldn’t normally be privy to!
For example, today I was trying to get my work done in the designated “Silent” area. [...]
Book review: The scholar-librarian: Books, libraries, and the visual arts
Wendorf, Richard. (2005). The scholar-librarian: Books, libraries, and the visual arts. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press.
I wasn’t exactly what to make of this book. I expected it to be about the scholar-librarian but only three chapters are really about that. The rest are the actual (republished) [...]
Richard Wendorf’s way of facilitating librarians having time to conduct research
Wendorf, Richard. (2005). The scholar-librarian: Books, libraries, and the visual arts. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press.
The following quotation is taken directly from the book by Wendorf, see citation above.
As I work on my thesis, over and over again I’m reading articles where academic librarians are discussing how they [...]
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