on This week, I met with RADS staff members about digitization and the library’s periodicals. It was fascinating to get a sense of the various processes and procedures that catalogers follow to try to keep the information about an item as consistent as possible across platforms and the considerations that go into whether or not to… Continue Reading Fall Term Blog Post #4
on This week I worked with a staff member in RADS to think about AI in the workplace, and when it is (and isn’t) useful. We specifically tried to use it to look at general trends in the department over the past 25 or so years, which yielded largely successful, if somewhat strange, results. It was… Continue Reading Fall Term Blog Post #3
on This week I had the pleasure of meeting with several staff members in RADS to learn about what they do and discuss the ethical considerations involved in acquisition work. It was interesting to get a sense of how certain ethical principles, like a general commitment to intellectual freedom, are carried out in practice at our… Continue Reading Fall Term Blog Post #2
on My first week! So far, I’ve been introduced to many of the lovely people I’ll be working with throughout the term, started on my Fall Term project, and solidified my goals for the internship. It feels like so much has happened, though seeing everything distilled like that makes it easier to process. I expected to… Continue Reading Fall Term Blog Post #1
on I had the great privilege this year to serve a position in Gould where I was permitted to slow down, look around, and ask: what is this place, really, and who is it for? That question, in many ways, became a thread throughout my entire internship, and it came into focus during this spring term… Continue Reading Spring Term Blog #2
on Access Services was the shortest portion of my internship experience by far—two days compared to weeks spent in other departments. Because of that, I entered and exited Access Services with the distinct feeling that I had only seen a small corner of a much larger operation. Yet even in that brief time, I came away… Continue Reading Spring term Blog #1
on How do you understand information literacy, and how do you see it shaping the work of reference and instruction librarians? What are some critical, ethical, and/or political dimensions of information literacy? We are the most informed the human race has ever been. Or at least, we have more information at our disposal than ever… Continue Reading Winter blog post 1
on Think about all we covered during this term in Reference & Instruction. What stands out to you as most valuable for you as you consider your interest in libraries and work (of any kind) you may do in the future? What learning or skills will you take with you as you continue learning and… Continue Reading Winter Blog post #2
on What have you learned about RADS through your social media project? This project served as a great way to integrate all of the individual yet extremely interdependent lessons that I learned from each niche within the RADS office. This, in and of itself, is a lesson: that each niche within RADS does not operate in… Continue Reading Fall Term Blog Post #2
on Over the past several weeks as the Gould Library intern, I have had the opportunity to immerse myself in the multifaceted world of Resource Acquisition and Discovery Services (RADS). When I first began the term, I knew broadly that RADS handled the “behind-the-scenes” processes that make library collections discoverable—but I quickly learned that this deceptively… Continue Reading Fall Term Blog #1