Final Vestiges of Spring '13

Summer is in full swing. Mailing textbooks back will be my final act of Spring.&nb...

Books on Pessimism

A joke from a Facebook friend:A man walks Into the library and asks the librarian, "Do you have any books on pessimism?" The librarian responds, "I doubt it."Do you have any good library jok...

Cite Yourself

Faux Pas? I just finished reading a 5-page article during which the author cites his other work (even a work that is pending publication) 5 times. Is that common practice? Doesn't that amount to an academic pat on the back? I honestly do not know and would like to learn. Leave me a comment with the answ...

Basics of Web Design: Book Review

The Book Title: Basics of Web Design: HTML5 & CSS3  Author: Terry Felke-Morris I read this book for the class LIS 5937: Web Design for Librarians. It was a good class though tedious. Web design is about attention to detail while keeping the big picture in mind. This book shows the reader...

Grammar Fail

"...words do not have not fixed boundaries..."Yes, this was published in a peer-reviewed journal. I understand it, but that language is used solely to try and make this piece a more difficult read. I will not provide a citation for the protection of those involved.&nb...

The Horror!

I Know What I'm Gonna Do This Summer It's not exactly the stuff of horror movies, but I didn't get into the classes I wanted. Who knew there would be so much competition for Copyright! Here are my courses for the semester, I know they will be beneficial to my career endeavors even if they turn out to be fairly difficult and boring. My Summer Courses LIS 6661 Government Documents LIS 6726 Indexing/Abstracting So...

Collection Management Basics: Book Review

The Book Barnes & Noble Collection Management Basics (Sixth Edition) G. Edward Evans Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro The Review For the most part, the readings in this text were assigned in chronological order, so my professor did not feel that the issues present in the Gregory text were founded...

Collection Development and Management: Book Review

The Book Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections: An introduction Vicki L. Gregory The Review My professor decided to begin the course with chapters 4 and 5 of this text before going back to chapters 1-3. Her rationale was that we would need to have some basic...

That Time of the Semester

A Semester Has Ended Since this semester is basically over, I'm going to have a lot of material to post. I will be posting about my overall experiences with Collection Development and Maintenance and Web Design for Librarians. First, I will review the textbooks that we used in the courses: Collection...