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Packing my library : an elegy and ten digressions
\"In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000-volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading. In this ... reevaluation of his life as a reader, the author illuminates the highly personal art of reading and affirms the vital role of public libraries\"--Dust jacket flap.
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The library : a catalogue of wonders
\"Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist today; some are lost, like those of Herculaneum and Alexandria; some have been sold or dispersed; and some never existed, such as those libraries imagined by J.R.R Tolkien, Umberto Eco, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others. Ancient libraries, grand baroque libraries, scientific libraries, memorial libraries, personal libraries, clandestine libraries: Stuart Kells tells the stories of their creators, their prizes, their secrets and their fate. To research this book, Kells traveled around the world with his young family like modern day 'Library Tourists.' Kells discovered that all the world's libraries are connected in beautiful and complex ways, that in the history of libraries, fascinating patterns are created and repeated over centuries. More importantly, he learned that stories about libraries are stories about people, containing every possible human drama. The Library is a fascinating and engaging exploration of libraries as places of beauty and wonder. It's a celebration of books as objects, a celebration of the anthropology and physicality of books and bookish space, and an account of the human side of these hallowed spaces by a leading and passionate bibliophile.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Too Broad and Too Narrow: One Library's Experience with Approval Plans
In 2019 a public urban academic research library decided to implement a subject- based approval plan to assess its viability to replace single-title book ordering. However, due in part to our library's unique collecting needs, the plan necessitated extensive and continuous reviews and revisions, which ultimately prompted us to discontinue the plan. Our experience was illuminating because, in the end, we felt we needed to experiment with approval plans to be sure that we were doing the right thing for our library and its users in continuing single-title purchasing of monographs.
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Defining data librarianship: a survey of competencies, skills, and training
Objectives: Many librarians are taking on new roles in research data services. However, the emerging field of data librarianship, including specific roles and competencies, has not been clearly established. This study aims to better define data librarianship by exploring the skills and knowledge that data librarians utilize and the training that they need to succeed.Methods: Librarians who do data-related work were surveyed about their work and educational backgrounds and asked to rate the relevance of a set of data-related skills and knowledge to their work.Results: Respondents considered a broad range of skills and knowledge important to their work, especially “soft skills” and personal characteristics, like communication skills and the ability to develop relationships with researchers. Traditional library skills like cataloging and collection development were considered less important. A cluster analysis of the responses revealed two types of data librarians: data generalists, who tend to provide data services across a variety of fields, and subject specialists, who tend to provide more specialized services to a distinct discipline.Discussion: The findings of this study suggest that data librarians provide a broad range of services to their users and, therefore, need a variety of skills and expertise. Libraries hiring a data librarian may wish to consider whether their communities will be best served by a data generalist or a subject specialist and write their job postings accordingly. These findings also have implications for library schools, which could consider adjusting their curricula to better prepare their students for data librarian roles. This article has been approved for the Medical Library Association’s Independent Reading Program.
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Alert Collector: Looking Inside: What Coloradans Who Are Incarcerated Like to Read
A recent episode of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning podcast Ear Hustle titled “A Little Streets, a Little Romance, a Little Deception,” explores the reading tastes of incarcerated people in San Quentin, a California prison. The episode was so funny and insightful it inspired me to write about what people read in our Colorado prison libraries, with the hope that it will provide collection development guidance about what books this underserved population loves to read. Donations are a lifeblood to so many prison libraries, but unfortunately much of what is sent by well-meaning donors doesn’t meet the needs of the readers I serve.
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Rosalind Farnam Dudden (1944-2023)
An obituary for Rosalind Farnam Dudden, who died on Sep 27, 2023, is presented. A lengthy list of Dudden's accomplishments and many awards, including receipt in 2013 of the Medical Library Association's highest honor, the Marcia C. Noyes Award, does not completely convey how shewas regarded by her colleagues in MLA and other professional organizations. Early MLA activity included her affiliation with the Hospital Libraries Section (HLS), becoming its treasurer in 1977. Her leadership as chair of the Hospital Library Standards and Practices Committee helped produce the first edition of the MLA Hospital Library Standards, published in 1984. In that same year, the section presented her with an award for her efforts which they called Resolution of a Debt of Gratitude. She chaired HLS for the 1987/1988 association year, developed and maintained the HLS website, and chaired the HLS Web Site Task Force from 1995 to 1998. While providing technology leadership to HLS, she also chaired the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section Web Site Task Force from 1995 to 1998.
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La Visionnaire: An Intellectual Biography of Mary Niles Maack
For more than four decades, Mary Niles Maack was a leading educator and scholar in the library and information science profession. Widely recognized for her research on gender issues and library history, often from an international perspective, Maack authored more than forty publications that focused on the professionalization of women in librarianship and international and comparative studies. In appreciation of her life's work, this intellectual biography traces the strands of Maack's thoughts and their place within her multifaceted body of work.
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Readers' advisory vs reference: a difference of stance
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine how we ought to distinguish between reference and readers' advisory (RA) service, given the latter’s turn toward a whole collection approach. In other words, the paper answers this question: If both reference and RA librarians aim to meet patrons’ information needs and may theoretically do so using the same materials, then how are we to differentiate the two services conceptually?Design/methodology/approachIn this conceptual paper, we posit that we can distinguish between RA and reference using Louise Rosenblatt’s theory of the aesthetic transaction. With this theory in hand, we can redefine the service distinction in terms of the stance – aesthetic or efferent – that the patron expects to take toward the material they seek.FindingsOn our account, the reader’s desired stance becomes a kind of hermeneutical lens through which a library worker may productively evaluate plausible pathways and materials. An aesthetic lens is characteristic of RA; it makes features of potential aesthetic transactions between a particular reader and a particular text (or genre or author’s oeuvre) salient.Originality/valueThe proposed account constitutes a novel application of Rosenblattian response theory, one that grounds and refines the going view that RA’s proper focus is on supporting a particular sort of experience rather than providing particular sorts of texts. This theoretical emendation also better aligns the service distinction with contemporary conceptualizations of RA as a “whole collection” service. Important practical and philosophical implications follow from the new account.
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