Feliciter back issues from January 2005:
A Personal Invitation to Rediscover the Library Movement
Jan 01, 2005; ... Alberta is a wonderful place to visit, especially in 2005, with both the CLA Annual Conference in Calgary and the celebration of the centenary of Alberta entering Confederation. Come to CLA 2005, then venture beyond Calgary to visit legendary Banff, Jasper, Lake Louise, the Badlands, the Rockies ...
It's All Continuing Professional Development
Jan 01, 2005; ... I find the timing of this Feliciter on continuing education particularly apt. Continuing education and related issues were hot topics at the January meetings of both the Association of Library and Information Science Educators and the American Library Association. And of course CLA is in the ...
Google Goes Scholarly?
Jan 01, 2005; ... With lots of fanfare and media attention, "Google Scholar" was launched in November 2004. Google had made forays into scholarly space prior to this service, including a recent partnership with CrossRef to index citation information for several scholarly publishers. While Google Scholar is much ...
Let's Get Our Continuing Education Act Together
Jan 01, 2005; ... This year at Dalhousie, one of the incoming students took us at our word and found that exit door. Wise move. That is a hard decision to make, but so critical for our profession. Who wants to use a library where the staff has no interest in lifelong engagement with skills development? Continuing ...
Assigninack Public Library
Jan 01, 2005; ... 800 m Ahead Small Public Libraries in Canada It's ironic that the island is a metaphor for a stand-alone body, discrete and separate from others. Island life is different from life on the mainland: you depend on your neighbours, since what affects them affects you. Cooperation and ...
Looking to the Future: Succession Planning, Continuing Education and the 8Rs Study
Jan 01, 2005; ... "Succession Planning" has been an often-used catch phrase within the library community to refer to a library's level of preparedness (or lack of preparedness) for an anticipated shortage of library workers as the baby boomers retire. Though succession planning began as a response to the ...
Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute - Some Personal Reflections
Jan 01, 2005; ... Over the years there has been reasonable commentary about the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute (NELI). This literature has been generated almost solely by those who have experienced the Institute as either participants (recently graduated librarians) or mentors (identified library ...
Manual Matters: Developing Successful Guidelines and Losing Priceless Boredom
Jan 01, 2005; ... Is there a classic treatise on boredom? There must be. Doubtless it first appeared as a weighty Latin codex by an anonymous author, with sections on the physical sensation of boredom, its long-term effects and its incidence in social settings. The opening passage, a magnificent description of ...
Librarians with Guns: Guadalajara's Military Public Library
Jan 01, 2005; ... Canadians are not accustomed to seeing uniformed librarians with guns, but in Mexico there are four military public libraries. I toured one of these, the Biblioteca publica del ejército y fuerza aérea mexicanos (Public Library of the Mexican Army and Air Force), during the annual International ...
Good Question!
Jan 01, 2005; ... To people who come from fields other than IT, technology often seems to be full of mystery with a strange language of acronyms. Chances are most board members and many managers feel this way about a necessary but confusing resource. A number of professional associations try to illuminate the ...
Library Education at 100: Still Hazy after All These Years?
Jan 01, 2005; ... In case you missed it, a belated Happy Birthday to us! One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1904, the first formal library education program began at McGiIl University. The Ex Libris Association marked the occasion by publishing a special issue of its newsletter, ELAN, with an article on the ...
Education for Librarianship: Intersecting Perspectives from the Academy and from the Field
Jan 01, 2005; ... Much has changed in librarianship, according to some. Little has changed, according to others. Much needs to change, opine still others. Perhaps all three are right. The issues facing the profession appear to me to remain pretty much the same, although the context may vary. The ...
The Evolution of Library Technician Programs in Canada
Jan 01, 2005; ... Since Canada's first program for the education of library technicians was launched at the Manitoba Institute of Technology in 1962, 29 programs have been established in seven provinces. Of these, only 16 programs were available in 2004- How have these programs changed in the intervening years? ...
Ready and Waiting for the Future: New Librarians and Succession Planning
Jan 01, 2005; ... The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Twelfth Night, Act V, sc. I Getting your first position as a librarian is very exciting. Once you have completed your master's you are ready to conquer the information society with your superior knowledge and intellect. Or reality ...
Incitement to Advocate: Advocacy Education of Future Librarians at University of Toronto's Faculty of Information Studies
Jan 01, 2005; ... Shouldn't tomorrow's librarians be equipped to lead effective advocacy for libraries - knowledgeably, skillfully and passionately? In the fall term of 2004, the Faculty of Information Studies (FIS), University of Toronto, broke new ground in education for librarianship by offering a ...
Student Information Research Skills: Report on a Quebec Study on Information Literacy
Jan 01, 2005; ... Information literacy teaching and practice within the curriculum improves student research and critical thinking skills, promotes lifelong learning, enhances etnployability, and prepares students to live as informed and responsible citizens. In an effort to better equip university students with ...