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Salaries are way up, and culture is even more important in this year's Placements and Salaries survey Suzie Alland (sallard@utk.cdu) is Professor of Information Sciences and Associate Dean of Research, [...]

Imagine this: You're a staffer at a bustling public library that provides critical services for its patrons. Or you're a library associate learning how an academic library functions within a [...]

There will always be a place in libraries for people to fill traditional roles in programming, collection development, and working with children or teens. But many recent graduates earning their [...]

Steps taken to improve the urban environment--otherwise known as tactical urbanism--have been around for a while. Going by the name guerrilla urbanism, city repair, DIY urbanism, hands-on urbanism, participatory urbanism, [...]

When I began the journey toward the role of ALA president in 2020, I had no idea what the future would hold for our libraries, for us as library workers, [...]

At both the SLA and the ALA conferences in June 2018, Online Searcher conducted a non-scientific, but fun, survey of conference attendees. The three questions on the survey, which we [...]

Libraries are wonderful places that can mean different things to different people. They can be places for children to discover the world around them, serve as quiet havens for students, [...]

Beth Greenfield had always wanted to be a lawyer, so a couple of years after graduating from college. she applied to law school. And although she worked only briefly as [...]

LIBRARIANS are more relevant than ever. We have no good reason to be on the defensive and every reason to be on the offensive. The conversation in our field is [...]

For four years, ALA's Leadership Institute has offered midcareer librarians the opportunity to take part in a four-day immersive leadership development program. The goal, says former ALA President Maureen Sullivan, [...]

Total attendance topped 26,000 at the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA) in Chicago, June 28-July 2. Attendance was higher than in 2011 and 2012, which both attracted [...]

Recovery from the 2008 recession continues, according to LJ's latest Placements & Salaries survey: graduates from LIS programs have more options and better opportunities in the field. Highlights include: * [...]

Vocational awe. Burnout. Low morale. Precarity. Undercompensation. Together, the themes I see cropping up in LIS research, conference presentations, and Twitter point to a chronic problem. That library workers who [...]

A Delphi study, conducted during 1998-2000, examined views of library and information science (LIS) experts on the profession's probable future.

At the moment, librarianship in the U.K. is in a state of flux. People are realizing that we need to reassess how we define librarianship and what it means for [...]

We can transform ourselves and the profession, or be swept away by a technological torrent. Are we the last generation of a profession being swept away by the rising tide [...]

'Guest of Choice' is an editorial initiative offering original contributions by librarians, academics, and public intellectuals who have something of interest to say to our core audience. The views or [...]

Although most columns from ALA presidents tend to focus on what we are planning, what we are excited about, or--most importantly--what we are committed to, I am compelled to write [...]

The forecast on library services and librarianship is presented. The methods to be followed by librarians to improve library standards are presented.

'IT'S LIKE HERDING CATS.' We've all heard the expression and winced at the very notion of trying to corral and mosey down the trail pushing members of a species with [...]

The history of librarianship as taught in many of our library schools begins before the Alexandrian Library. The impression given by this kind of history,, is that librarianship is practically [...]

Sine Qua Non. [Latin, Without which not.] A description of a requisite or condition that is indispensable. BOY, THOSE ANCIENT ROMANS knew what they were talking about! It may not [...]

ALA's new vice president/president-elect, Maurice J. (Mitch) Freedman, will focus on three key issues during his presidential term that begins July 2002 (AL, June/July, p. 10): fighting externally imposed filtering, […]

THE ALA CHAPTER RELATIONS Committee meeting on Monday, June 18, in San Francisco was a microcosm of the year-round merry-go-round of ALA and its chapters. The alliance between national and […]

The Sibert committee looks at 14 qualities of a truly distinguished information book. The Information Age has a new high-profile award for information books. That s a big plus. After [...]

Meeting of the Metadata Minds Heads up: A potentially important metadata image standard is in development. The Association for Information and Image Management International (AIIM) has formed a task force [...]

In a recent piece in the New York Times ('Hype and Anti-Hype,' 2/23/01), columnist Thomas Friedman discusses the 'hype curve' for new technology, noting, 'If you think that just because [...]

TEN WAYS TO CREATE LIBRARIES THAT WILL MEET THE NEEDS OF TOMORROW'S CHILDREN CHILDREN'S LIBRARIANS ARE PRACTICAL PEOPLE. WE ARE VERY GOOD AT SOLVING DAY-TO-DAY PROBLEMS. We can find the [...]

EARLIER THIS YEAR, in a fit of millennium fever, I asked a dozen or so representatives of online companies what they think will be the major trends in the library [...]

Public Library Association's conference faces the future in Charlotte IN THE LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE, USERS will pull off the shelf the items they've placed on hold themselves, pay their […]