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Get Out There MICHAEL HOMAN AND JULIE MACKSEY, A CURRENT LIBRARIAN AND A FORMER librarian, respectively, entered the world of volunteerism cautiously. But now both are converts to that world. […]

I am familiar with and sympathetic to the challenges, emotional burden, and very real fears that accompany working with the public. In my career, I have advocated long and hard [...]

One afternoon, Sandra Kitt, librarian of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, was walking through the streets of Brooklyn when she saw something that changed her life. The sight of a [...]

In 1998, I attended a metadata conference with six colleagues from the University of Minnesota Libraries. As always, I made sure to bring along a book for bedtime reading that [...]

For Muslim-American librarians, a unique and extraordinary set of circumstances frames their response to the cataclysmic events of last September 11. In an atmosphere where Islam is viewed by many [...]

WHEN PEOPLE SAY THEY FELL INTO THEIR CAREER FIELD, THEY USUALLY MEAN that by sheer accident or twist of fate they found a job that turned into a career. When […]

THE BEST WAY TO AVOID CAREER BURNOUT MAY BE TO RECHARGE YOUR BATTERIES - OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY Unless you are profession-hopping, chances are that by the time you hit the […]

A study was conducted to examine the interactional practices of librarians and patrons by examining chat reference transcripts. Findings indicate that an analysis of the reference query as a service request demonstrates how librarians deploy their interactional skills to manage potentially problematic aspects of the reference encounter.

Speak Up! As Chapters begin their programming for the SLA year, think about what you want both locally and association-wide from your association. I have the opportunity to give my […]

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 [...]

Karen Holloway, Team Leader of the University of Arizona Science-Engineering Library, has been selected to attend the 2001 Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education. Bryn Mawr College and Higher […]

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?' [...]

Opposite the headline 'What the Internet needs is an old-fashioned librarian,' Eugenie Prime, manager of Hewlett-Packard Corporate Libraries, is featured in one of four ads in the new 'invent' campaign [...]

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 [...]

'I used to think that hanging out in the stacks with hundreds of books had to be the coolest job in the world, amid the best people in the world. [...]

Currents Sharon Anderson began her new duties as children's librarian at the Cape Girardeau (Mo.) Public Library January 8. * W. Reid Austin has joined the staff of the University [...]

'Lincoln would never have dreamt of letting some political strategist tell him whether or not to oppose slavery.... The Gettysburg Address was not market-tested by focus groups with electrodes on [...]

Problem: It had been a very dry month in Maryland, and Anne Arundel County Public Library administrator Ronald Kozlowski knew the ground would be too hard for a traditional groundbreaking [...]

Maurice J. (Mitch) Freedman, director of the Westchester Library System in Ardsley, New York, is now an official candidate for 2002-2003 ALA president. He announced his intention to run in [...]

James G. Neal, director of libraries at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, testified November 29 on behalf of the American library community at the U. S. Copyright Office's final hearing […]

Kim Ford, the librarian at Cypress Junior High School in Memphis, TN, is the new editor of 'Student to Student,' a monthly column in Voices from the Middle, a journal [...]

Each year the Freedom Forum sends four librarians to developing countries. The program emphasizes helping these countries build and maintain their information infrastructure. Sylvia Piggott, an employee of the International [...]

It Isn't Rocket Science; It Isn't Even Library Science Like Rodney Dangerfield, librarians sometimes get no respect. Even in the year 2000, we are still victims of hopelessly out-of-date negative [...]

Harry Middleton made the decision to release Lydon Johnson's secret White House recordings. The rest is history. THANKS TO HARRY MIDDLETON--WHO?--LYNDON JOHNSON IS having a very good year; his best […]

This guest issue moves to the beat of a different drummer. Instead of rounding up the usual topics on special collections--preservation, digitization, collecting, etc.--we focus on some new twists to [...]

Paige Andrew, maps cataloger and acting head of the Serials Department at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, recently co-edited Maps and Related Cartographic Materials: Cataloging, Classification and Bibliographic Control, a […]