With so many great articles I had tough choices and a last-minute substitution. I’ll put that item last–but not least–on the list. Otherwise here are the remaining 2019 picks in alphabetical order: Lateef, A., & Omotayo, F. O. (2019). Information audit as an important tool in organizational management: A review of literature. Business Read More…
Tag: information literacy
Best of 2019, Part 1
Reading the professional literature is part of a librarian’s information literacy. As usual I’m sharing my favorite professional reads from this year ending. The first five– in alphabetical order– are: Belzowski, N., & Robison, M. (2019). Kill the one-shot: Using a collaborative rubric to liberate the librarian-instructor partnership. Journal of Library Administration, 59(3), 282-297. doi: Read More…
Holiday dishes and refining searches
During the Holidays many of us remember special recipes. For me one such recipe is for coffee bars (similar to a toll house pan cookie, but with coffee in the batter). Several years ago I made–and burnt–my first batch. Since then I’ve tried different solutions: glass pans vs. metal pans, square pans vs. rectangular Read More…
Thankful for different source types
As holidays go, Thanksgiving gets overlooked. In our fondness for scholarly journal articles, do we overlook other information sources? For example do we pay enough attention to trade magazines or professional association newsletters? Students will use such sources in their working lives: Shouldn’t they encounter some during their college careers? Likewise government information would serve Read More…
APA 7 and the Purpose of References
In case you haven’t heard the news, the American Psychological Association has released the 7th edition of its style guide. On the surface this development affects those in the social and behavioral sciences. Still, it can make anyone think about the purpose of–and not merely the form of–references. For instance the manual describes the reference Read More…
Scary genres and info lit
Some librarians are taking part in an All Hallow’s Read book swap. When participants sign up, they list their favorite scary genre and/or scary elements. If our giftee likes a genre less familiar to us, we learn a little about it. After all, how can we recognize a genre we haven’t encountered before? We can Read More…
American Archives Month 2019
October is American Archives Month. When we think of archives, do we consider what people are represented, what people are underrepresented, or how people are represented? For example the University of Maine has digitized early back issues of Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum, a Franco-American newspaper. A December 1976 cartoon shows a grandmother frog–The frog is Read More…
Banned Books Week 2019
Welcome to Banned Books Week 2019! This year’s theme (“Censorship leaves us in the dark.”) brings to mind–to my mind, at least–footlights and spotlights. What plays have been censored, or their productions banned? Where did these incidents happen, and under what circumstances? The book Banned plays : Censorship histories of 125 stage dramas explores such Read More…
Welcome Back Fall 2019
Welcome back, everyone! I hope the summer treated you well. Over the summer I have been weeding both my home office and my library office. I have discussed weeding before, most notably in my 05/18/17 post. As weeding needs to be done periodically, though, shouldn’t we revisit the topic every so often? The ACRL Framework Read More…
Listicle Literacy
As I write my staycation to-do lists, I think of how listicles play a large role in blogging culture. According to Wikipedia, a listicle “uses a list as its thematic structure, but is fleshed out with sufficient copy to be published as an article” (Listicle, 2018, para. 1). Examples include my 2018 Top Articles post. Read More…