http://thepinakes.com from papyrus to pdf Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:09:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Indianapolis, home of the legendary Indianapolis 500, recently hosted the 300 presentations,workshops, and poster sessions that made up ACRL 2013, the biennial conference of academic librarians. Here are just a few of those sessions worth highlighting. Libraries in the Age of Wikipedia Before the start of the official conference, I participated in a free ... http://thepinakes.com/2013/04/the-indianapolis-300-wrapping-up-acrl-2013/ Last week a tumblr user asked the following question: Question from a soon-to-be-graduating MLIS student, if you don't mind: did you have any publications under your belt before being hired as an academic reference librarian? Also, how active were you in professional associations/organizations? With graduation so soon and the market ... http://thepinakes.com/2013/04/question-from-a-mlis-student/ There’s a breaking story in the world of scholarly journals and library science that’s worth tuning into. It kicked off with a post by Brian Mathews on his Chronicle of Higher Education blog The Ubiquitous Librarian, in which he revealed that the entire editorial board of the prestigious ... http://thepinakes.com/2013/03/the-resignation-of-the-editorial-board-of-the-jla/ Earlier this month I orchestrated an information literacy workshop for our senior capstone Biology colloquium. The students in this course are conducting field research on a local urban freshwater stream, and their professor hopes that the students will submit the data they are collecting to a scholarly journal. She mentioned ... http://thepinakes.com/2013/02/investigating-journals-an-information-literacy-workshop-for-science-students/ Originally posted to tumblr, Sept. 2012. I was giving a friend cover letter advice for a librarian position and she suggested I go public with it. My admittedly limited credentials: I have written cover letters that were ignored, I’ve written cover letters that got me interviews, and I wrote the cover letter ... http://thepinakes.com/2013/01/how-to-write-the-perfect-cover-letter/ Since last summer I've been using tumblr exclusively for my blogging. Generally speaking, it is easier to post to, and I have a wider readership on that platform than I did here. However, because tumblr is a mix of long and short posts, original content and "reblogs," my longer posts ... http://thepinakes.com/2013/01/public-service-announcement/ In April of 2012 I attended the biennial conference of California Academic and Research Libraries, the state affiliate of ACRL. The conference theme was “Creativity & Sustainability: Fostering User-Centered Innovation in Difficult Times.” The focus of the keynote presentations was the promotion of innovative leadership (or, in the cases of ... http://thepinakes.com/2012/06/trip-report-carl-conference-2012/ I flew to Los Angeles a couple weeks ago to attend the second half of the Statewide California Electronic Libraries Consortium’s (SCELC) annual Colloquium & Vendor Day hosted at Loyola Marymount University (I was unable to attend the first day because I was leading a four-hour intensive information literacy workshop ... http://thepinakes.com/2012/03/trip-report-scelc-vendor-day/ I'll be a participant in a panel during the Library 2.011 Worldwide Virtual Conference. Our program, Riding the "Long Tail": Leveraging a Niche to Build a Network, focuses on the niche professional networks and interests enabled and encouraged by the use of social media tools. It will be moderated by ... http://thepinakes.com/2011/10/riding-the-long-tail/ Saturday night, the Information Amateurs Social Club gathered at the special pour-your-own-beer keg table at San Francisco's Mad Dog in the Fog, a Lower Haight pub. I never got an exact count of attendees as it ebbed and flowed all night (much like the tap!) but it was well over ... http://thepinakes.com/2011/08/tapping-into-information/