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Five librarians show how they've used their skills to become prime players at their companies THEIR JOBS ARE fast-paced, well paid, and sometimes tenuously balanced on the cutting edge. Most [...]

Tony Campbell's Continuing Cartographic Career Map Librarian of the British Library. To map collectors and map historians around the world, this esteemed title conjures up an image of the very [...]

Librarians, their hands and feet spinning, are trying to do too much HI, MY NAME IS JO. ONE DAY THE BOSS CAME TO ME and said, 'Jo, are you busy?' [...]

The Mobile Librarian: mainst, monterey.k12.ca.us/library/cart/ mobile.html Gayle Hodur, district librarian for the Soledad Unified School District in central California, loved her job but felt the isolation of her transient lifestyle-traveling [...]

The Principle or the Money? RALPH KUBISKO, DIRECTOR of Burnside University's prestigious Thomas Paine Library, was searching through papers on his desk when the phone beeped. 'Saved by the bell,' [...]

The core values debate hasn't exactly transfixed ALA members. An opening hearing on the draft core values statement (www.wwa.com/~dsager/core. him) drew only about 40 people and lasted little more than [...]

ALA's Reference and User Services Association articulates the ideal of getting beyond the reference desk, and in Ohio, public libraries are working to translate these objectives into dynamic reality. RUSA's [...]

MY EARLIEST MEMORY OF A VERY odd library patron goes back to when I was a teenager visiting the downtown branch of the Gary Public Library, IN. One of the [...]