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Love Your Keyboard! Professional Writing For Librarians, Emily Ford, Kim Leeder Aug 2013

Love Your Keyboard! Professional Writing For Librarians, Emily Ford, Kim Leeder

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Participants of the session engaged in the inquiry process as focused in 4 areas of librarianship: Public Services & Programming; Teaching & Learning; Leadership & Management; Collections & Technical Services. Additionally, the workshop moderators engaged in the inquiry process regarding Publishing in Librarianship. The following are snapshots of the brainstorming that took place.


Becoming A Writer-Librarian, Emily Ford May 2013

Becoming A Writer-Librarian, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article offers a reflection on my pursuit to become a writer-librarian. In addition to participating in a professional writing program at my institution, in November of 2012 I participated in Academic Writing Month and Digital Writing Month. Through these immersive experiences I worked to figure out who is my writerly librarian self and discovered some tools and techniques to help me along the way. This article begins with an explanation of Academic Writing Month and Digital Writing Month, discusses writing in Library and Information Science, and then offers more reflection on my discoveries as I tried to become a …