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- Academic librarians; Time management (1)
- Architectural libraries; Architecture – Research; Electronic information resources; Libraries and the Internet; Library web sites (1)
- Assessment; Career changes; Librarians – Vocational guidance; Vocational interests (1)
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Third Time's The Charm: Choosing A Career In Librarianship, P. S. Mcmillen
Third Time's The Charm: Choosing A Career In Librarianship, P. S. Mcmillen
Library Faculty Publications
While many come to librarianship from other careers, I made my third major career change to the profession after a somewhat atypical process. I made myself the subject of a formal assessment process while completing a certificate program in career counseling. One of the first things we learned in the career counseling program is that most people take essentially an opportunistic path to their various jobs and careers, e.g., you know someone who does something that sounds sort of interesting, or someone knows someone else who needs someone… It’s often a very generic process and is, in fact, why so …
Third Time’S The Charm: Choosing A Career In Librarianship, P. S. Mcmillen
Third Time’S The Charm: Choosing A Career In Librarianship, P. S. Mcmillen
Library Faculty Publications
While many come to librarianship from other careers, I made my third major career change to the profession after a somewhat atypical process. I made myself the subject of a formal assessment process while completing a certificate program in career counseling.
Architecture Library Web Pages: The Instruction Dimension, Jeanne M. Brown
Architecture Library Web Pages: The Instruction Dimension, Jeanne M. Brown
Library Faculty Publications
Before getting into the “Instruction Dimension” let’s start with a brief timeline to provide some context. I have been working on my Internet Guide to Architecture and Building for many years now: since 1992 at least, since the time of gophers, and other arcane applications I can barely remember like archie and veronica. It wasn’t until 1995, five years ago, that I started an architecture library home page, with a guide to researching architects that included print and net sources and of course with the Internet Guide to Architecture and Building. It is difficult for me now to visualize those …
Time And The Academic Librarian, Jeanne M. Brown
Time And The Academic Librarian, Jeanne M. Brown
Library Faculty Publications
For academic librarians to balance time requirements for research, service and job duties they need a keen sense of where their time is allocated. Although the literature gives some idea of average time allocated, a more detailed view is obtained through examination of one librarian’s seven-year accumulation of daily time logs. The log as a method for achieving balance and the goal of balance itself are explored.