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I am a librarian at Cal Poly Pomona. I have an M.S. in library and information science and an M.A. in English. This weblog reflects my interests in library & information science, literature, language, culture, and the arts. Click for my full profile.


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    Libraries spotlighted in latest issue of Chronicle of Higher Education (9/29/2005)

    Articles include Scott Carlson's article on how library renovation and construction is keeping them useful in the Internet age, W. Lee Hisle's article on the changing role of reference librarians, Fred D. White's anti-closed stacks article, The Beauty of Browsing, Catherine Murray Rust's views on why librarians should get tenure and Deborah A. Carver's views on why librarians should not get tenure, David Durant's The Loneliness of a Conservative Librarian, Steven J. Bell's Electronic Libraries Can't Be Academic, Richard W. Oram and Edward L. Bishop's The Sweet Smell of Provenance (special collections in libraries), and Elizabeth Breakstone's Librarians Can Look Forward to an Exhilarating Future (breaking stereotypes). If you don't have a password, look for this issue at your local library. Many offer Chronicle via online database as well.

    New Nancy Pearl librarian action figure issued last month (9/20/2005)

    This one wears red and comes with a book cart, desk, and computer. On sale for $12.95.

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