Family Man Librarian

These are my links for June 12th through June 14th:

Gather No Dust -
Library and Information Science Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Homepage of the LIS Library (obviously). Provides a good starting point for access to LIS literature online.
News Spot -

If ever there was a librarian who deserves all of the honors she gets, it is Dr. Linda Smith, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was very pleased to read that she received yet another award, this one celebrating her pioneering [...]

I’ve mentioned many times that I have close ties to my alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, so forgive me for yet another mention of them. I have been meaning for a while to mention here that they are providing some nice social web functionality. Included in this is a library-specific [...]

I’m not sure where to even begin with this blog post…By that I mean that so much is happening and there is so much that I’ve wanted to comment on here but haven’t done so, such that my brain is scrambled (well, more so than usual).
For example, I continue to be incredibly impressed with Tim [...]

Game On: Home
A lot of discussion and news has been shared about gaming in libraries lately. Just about all of that seems to me to involve public libraries. That makes it all the more interesting that the university library of my alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has recently announced an [...]

I was pleased to get an email today announcing the winners of various annual awards from NASIG. NASIG generously gives out several different awards, but the highlight for me has always been the award for current Master’s level library and information science students. NASIG gives out several of these each year, and I [...]

I’m thoroughly enjoying conversations with my mentee @ the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He is very familiar with Web 2.0 and so naturally we have already begun a dialog about the viability of the library side of this technology trend, known as Library 2.0. I [...]

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Library Schools Must Teach E-Resource Management (& What Else?)
I couldn’t agree more with the need for library schools to integrate a course on e-resource management into their curriculum. Furthermore, I think it should be a required course. The course I teach at the University of Illinois at [...]

This a.m. I filled out the rest of the online paperwork necessary to complete my appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science (UIUC GSLIS). This appointment involves teaching a course, Technical Services Functions, during the upcoming summer term, in UIUC GSLIS’s online education curriculum, known as [...]

The entry title is a nod to the classic Simon and Garfunkel song…and is meant as a lead-in to an explanation of why there haven’t been many entries in this blog of late. Stuff happens. Mostly, I needed a bit of a break from blogging due to preoccupation with other matters. [...]