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In the Spirit of Ben Franklin: 13 Virtues of Next Gen Librarians


The ACRL national conference is upon us once again. If you’re going to the city of brotherly love, I’d like to invite you to come check out a panel that I am on with two amazing librarians. Carissa Tomlinson is an emerging technologies librarian at Towson University, and Catherine Johnson is an instruction and reference [...]

The Many Hats of Librarians


One of my favorite aspects of being a librarian is the variety of the work. I am never doing the same thing day in and day out, and I’m constantly challenged in new ways. This may be because I work at a small institution with a fairly small number of librarians, so we all have [...]

A-ha Moments In Librarianship


One of the chief joys of being a teacher is when you see a light come on in a student’s head — when they have an a-ha moment. Maybe you just explained something differently and got the student to slightly shift their thinking, but that shift makes all the difference in the world. When your perspective [...]