I love being a public librarian. Not just for the books, but because I am able to directly serve the people in my community. If you are thinking about entering the profession, I urge you to take a look at the following slides. Thanks to Stephen Abram for the initial link.
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Monday, November 08, 2010
So, You Want to Be a Librarian?
People always ask me about getting a job in the library. They gush about how amazing it must be to get to read all day. I gently remind them that I am not reading right now; I am helping them. Then they talk about how nice it is to be surrounded by books all day. I agree with them.
I love being a public librarian. Not just for the books, but because I am able to directly serve the people in my community. If you are thinking about entering the profession, I urge you to take a look at the following slides. Thanks to Stephen Abram for the initial link.
I love being a public librarian. Not just for the books, but because I am able to directly serve the people in my community. If you are thinking about entering the profession, I urge you to take a look at the following slides. Thanks to Stephen Abram for the initial link.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Saturday, December 30, 2006
LibraryThing Rocks!
I have been using LibraryThing with my job and really liked the ease of use. We used it to display new books on our Library blog.
I have been wanting to create a catalog of all of my Disney, Star Wars and other favorite books for several months. I signed up for an account (which had to be the easiest registration ever) and started entering the ISBN's right away. Since a few of my books were only sold at Disney theme parks, they did not have an ISBN or other identifying mark (like a publication date). I was able to enter 60 titles last night and it took me about an hour. That was in between changing a diaper, eating supper and keeping the boys from getting toys everywhere.
I am still exploring the power of LibraryThing. I added a widget to the left hand column of this blog that will display random titles from the books that I have entered. I can tell it to only show books with certain tags (or keywords) or by specific authors.
I hope to start entering my Star Wars titles next.
I have been using LibraryThing with my job and really liked the ease of use. We used it to display new books on our Library blog.
I have been wanting to create a catalog of all of my Disney, Star Wars and other favorite books for several months. I signed up for an account (which had to be the easiest registration ever) and started entering the ISBN's right away. Since a few of my books were only sold at Disney theme parks, they did not have an ISBN or other identifying mark (like a publication date). I was able to enter 60 titles last night and it took me about an hour. That was in between changing a diaper, eating supper and keeping the boys from getting toys everywhere.
I am still exploring the power of LibraryThing. I added a widget to the left hand column of this blog that will display random titles from the books that I have entered. I can tell it to only show books with certain tags (or keywords) or by specific authors.
I hope to start entering my Star Wars titles next.
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