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What Academic Librarians Should Know About Creative Thinking, John Olson

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

Librarians need to explore their individual creativity. Creative thinking is an underutilized problem-solving skill that can be learned and applied to any situation. This article explains how librarians can understand, develop, and use their creative thinking abilities and skills in the workplace.

Winning The Accreditation Game: The Library As Key Player And Hidden Gold Mine, Antje Mays

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Libraries are a central hub of information resources supporting college and university curricula. Several library strategies, cross-campus collaborations, and philosophical considerations of electronic and print offerings led to successful accreditations in business and engineering programs.

Mexican And U.S. Library Relations, Robert A. Seal

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper examines recent library interactions involving the United States and Mexico, providing a review of the literature and commentary on current and potential future cooperative endeavors. However, due to space considerations and a dearth of literature describing early work, the focus is limited to the past 30 years, with only selected references to earlier activity. The potential impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), recent developments in telecommunications and computer technology, and a rising number of "grass roots" binational conferences and projects all make this a good time to review our relationship, librarywise, with our neighbors to …

Dicks, Raleigh Muns

Raleigh Muns

Mysterious Tales Of The Reference Desk, Raleigh Muns

Raleigh Muns

Mature Librarians And The University Faculty: Factors Contributing To Librarian's Acceptance As Colleagues, Jean A. Major

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

In an exploratory study, eighteen mature librarians who are considered colleagues of teaching faculty were interviewed to understand actual instances of acceptance within an institution. Participants demonstrated that performing the role of librarian and exploiting campus governance activities contributed significantly to collegial acceptance and were used to advantage more often than a common interest in research. The most important factor, however, was self-confidence as a librarian. Models and mentors reportedly helped subjects learn to be colleagues with other faculty; library school often did not.

Librarian, Louisiana State University Libraries, 1969-1993, Anna H. Perrault

Anna H. Perrault

Librarian, Louisiana State University Libraries, 1969-1993: Remote Information and Electronic Services Reference Services Division Collection Development Division Louisiana Rare Book Rooms Reclassification Division, Cataloger Information Desk Librarian and Assistant Interlibrary Loan Librarian

Librarian, Louisiana State University Libraries, 1969-1993, Anna H. Perrault

School of Information Faculty Publications

Librarian, Louisiana State University Libraries, 1969-1993: Remote Information and Electronic Services Reference Services Division Collection Development Division Louisiana Rare Book Rooms Reclassification Division, Cataloger Information Desk Librarian and Assistant Interlibrary Loan Librarian

Books, Microforms, Computers And Us: Who's Us?, Margaret A. Leary

Articles

The author suggests that in the increasing effort to define, and refine, their identity and image, librarians have recently turned towards computers - and away from books and microforms. The result has been an avoidance of the more important issues facing librarians - such as ownership, accessibility, cost, and preservation of new formats of information - and an ever greater obfuscation of what constitutes the profession of librarianship.

Lumières, Anna H. Perrault

Anna H. Perrault

Published by Friends of the Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Newsletters from November 1975 to Spring 1993.

Lumières, Anna H. Perrault, Friends Of The Library, Louisiana State University

School of Information Faculty Publications

Published by Friends of the Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Newsletters from November 1975 to Spring 1993.

Curriculum For High School Students Who Are Responsible For Elementary Library Services, Delitha Carpenter

All Graduate Projects

In order to alleviate some of the workload from the sole librarian of the Hartline School District in Eastern Washington, high school students were utilized as library aides. However, that created another problem which was how to efficiently train the student librarians. From this need, a curriculum was designed for teaching library aides for regular, clerical duties, to tell stories to the elementary students, and to aid in the typing and filing of catalog cards.