on Reflect on your experience as our library-wide intern. What could we have done better? What did you like? What are some ideas for next year’s projects? Suggestions for successful remote work? I really appreciated that the staff would check in on me. I think that this is really important especially when it is the student’s… Continue Reading Spring Term 2020 Blog Post #3
on Blog 2 due: Response to video “Change the Subject” The “Change the Subject” documentary, in short, focuses on a group of students from Dartmouth that are trying to change the subject heading that appears in the library catalog as “illegal aliens” to “undocumented immigrants.” The librarians at that college agree that there should be a… Continue Reading Spring Term 2020 Blog Post #2
on Reflection on readings/podcast or reflection on your experience with online learning/ remote work so far. In a nutshell, the readings and the podcast touched base on how libraries are working in the midst of the pandemic. A lot of the people are mentioning that no one has ever documented how to operate a library during… Continue Reading Spring Term 2020 Blog Post #1
on Please discuss how learning more about librarianship influences you as you plan your future in graduate school or your desired career. What things have you learned this term that can help you in your future profession whether it be librarianship or something else. Having been an intern for the past two terms in the library… Continue Reading Winter Term 2020 Blog Post #4
on Write a blog about what you learned in R&I this term As I come to an end in my time of being an R&I intern, I have been involved with a series of projects of which I have learned various things. One of the first things that I learned while being at the desk with… Continue Reading Winter Term 2020 Blog Post #3
on This week, Emika, Cece, and Valerie met to discuss two articles “Librarians Put Their Trust in Patrons” and “A Master’s Degree in LIS: Weighing Our Educational Standards.” “Librarians Put Their Trust in Libraries” is an article written by Jennifer Howard for The Chronicle for Higher Education that discusses the current trend in libraries to become… Continue Reading Weekly Meeting Week 9 Report Winter Term 2020
on This term I am choosing three to five books to include in the pop-up exhibit. With this said, I am then looking into each books’ bibliography information, information about the author/collection, and stating why I decided to include certain books into the pop-up exhibit. In addition to this, I am working as an outreach person… Continue Reading Winter Term 2020 Blog Post #2
on I think that the “Ethical Aspects of Reference Service” was a very interesting chapter because before I read it had not crossed my mind that there are some cases in which one would be in a personal battle about providing an easier way to access certain information to certain individuals or to hold back that… Continue Reading Winter Term 2020 Blog Post #1
on Some obstacles that come to mind for libraries’ settings would be not having enough resources to aid those who are completely blind, deaf, or those who are both. I can see obstacles arising on not being able to use the computers, librarians having trouble finding resources that are affordable and good quality, and having people… Continue Reading Fall Term 2019 Blog Post #3
on Two big differences between the metadata used in libraries from the ones used in archives are the amount of detail used when cataloging the item(s) and where the metadata is published. For regular books that are circulated constantly, it is easier to describe the content of what the book is about. For example, when circulating… Continue Reading Fall Term 2019 Blog Post #2