Children's Librarians and BPH Subregional Librarians

Ways are explored in which public library children's librarians can help sighted children increase their understanding of persons with visual impairment and their skills in communicating with them. Interviews were conducted with six children's librarians and six BPH subregional librarians, and searches were made in the public library catalogs and the Regional BPH Library fiche catalog for selected titles. Three areas for discussion emerged: reader advisory and reference questions, collection development, and programming. Public library children's librarians and BPH subregional librarians can jointly coordinate provision of children's services by identifying and building on present strengths in collection development and programming.     

面对使命的图书馆人

公共图书馆在发展历程中其职能经历了数次变化，体现了图书馆人对图书馆使命的认识的深化，正确认识使命则有助于事业发展，否则会给事业带来损害。     

Reference Librarians and Technical Services Librarians:

The relationship between reference librarians and technical services librarians has often been strained. In our changing technological and organizational environment, it is imperative that reference librarians and technical services librarians share responsibility for improving this relationship. One way for this to take place is for individuals to become more "accountable" to their colleagues. This article provides accountability guidelines for both reference and technical services librarians which, if followed, can result in increased communication and a better understanding of the roles, concerns, and needs of both reference and technical services librarians.     

Know-It-All Librarians

Summary

Librarians are depicted as know-it-alls by some and as know-nothings by others. Similarly, they are seen as both utterly powerless and preternaturally powerful. This essay offers examples of these contradictory images, examines their implications, and proposes a more realistic view of librarians and their relation to knowledge and power.     

"学科馆员"制度与"参考馆员"制度的比较

图书馆服务工作对参考馆员和学科馆员的素质和能力要求很相似,但两者的发展历史、服务对象、职责与素质要求又有着一定的差别。本文试图分析这两种制度的异同,提出当今我国图书馆需在参考馆员制度的基础上尽快建立学科馆员制度,形成与参考馆员制度互相配合、互为补充的信息咨询服务体系。     

Librarians Team Up with Marketing Research Class

The Library Assessment Committee at Central Missouri State University has conducted numerous user surveys within the past three years. In an effort to come up with some creative new ideas, the Committee worked with one of the University's Marketing Research classes. The class's term project was to design a methodology to assess students' impressions of library service. Several of the ideas have been implemented, and an intern form the Marketing Department has been hired to assist with future surveys.     

众包馆员:开放图书馆的开放图书馆员

以构建开放的图书馆为出发点,分析众包馆员的内涵和主要特征,研究众包馆员产生的背景条件,将众包馆员分为三个层次——入门级众包馆员、初级众包馆员和中高级众包馆员,并对其主要职责进行思考,提出众包馆员实施众包的四个注意事项。     

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论述馆长与馆员的协调艺术的三个方面,即：信任馆员的艺术;非权力影响力的艺术;“感情投资”的艺术。     

Librarians as Makers

Recent trends in librarianship point to themes of crafters, artisans, and makers in library spaces. The American Library Association's Center for the Future of Libraries includes the Maker Movement as one of its trends. Librarians can support these makers and entrepreneurs by thinking of libraries as a place to create through community building and engagement, and considering job skills needed for success and confidence to staff such spaces, but this transformation requires administrative support. This article summarizes this movement for libraries and suggests a route to success through a case study of a year-long grant on Making Maker librarians.     

Accountable Reference Librarians

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Evaluating Reference Librarians

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And Children's Librarians

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论述了美国图书馆自７０年代以来因就业市场饱和、收费信息服务业兴起和图书情报教育改革等，部分图书馆学专业毕业生和在职图书馆员转向信息市场，开展收费信息服务的发展状况及这一现象对我国图书馆工作、图书馆员的择业观和图书情报教育改革的影响     

Librarians as Innovators

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Not just for celebrities: collaborating with a PR representative to market library education services

Hardin Library for the Health Sciences offers an education service called Hardin House Calls. In collaboration with the University of Iowa libraries' public relations coordinator, the education team developed a marketing campaign for Hardin House Calls. Marketing strategies included designing a new logo, meeting with external relations representatives and faculty, distributing a user survey, and producing and distributing posters and advertisements. These marketing strategies greatly increased the visibility and use of Hardin House Calls. The campaign also led to a series of faculty development sessions, education collaborations with smaller health sciences departments, and collection development opportunities. Promoting an instructional service through a public relations frameworkwas found to be a highly successful strategy.     

Embedded Librarians: MLS Students as Apprentice Librarians in Online Courses

ABSTRACT

Master of Library Science (MLS) students at one university are serving as apprentice “embedded” librarians in nursing courses at another university. Results of surveys of nursing students at the end of the class and reflections of the MLS students after this experience will be shared from the first semester iteration of this project. A comparison of this project with past iterations of the project will be made in the hope that the information gleaned from these interactions will help in the design of library services. Furthermore, this premise of the development of relationships in the provision of library services for distance learners will be further examined.