Stories by This Author
First Person
Why librarians shouldn’t act like dragons guarding the hoard.
First Person
What can you do to ensure that students are actually learning something online?
First Person
Why online teaching isn’t as easy or as bad as you think.
Advice
Just because your students are computer-literate doesn’t mean they are research-literate.
Advice
Recent job postings and hires suggest that many academic libraries are losing interest in hiring humanities Ph.D.'s
First Person
Many young Ph.D.'s, frustrated by the teaching market and considering a career change, are curious to know what rank they would hold as an academic librarian.
Advice
A list of four traits that would not only make librarians more effective, but happier and more productive, too.
Advice
Many academic librarians feel unloved and underappreciated on their campuses, and the main reason is that they sense they are viewed as second-class citizens by members of the teaching faculty.
Advice
An opening is posted for an academic librarian. Applicants promptly and eagerly forward their materials. Then they hear nothing. For months and months, they are trapped in -- to paraphrase the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser -- an “endlesse searche.”
Advice
If you’re a Ph.D. in the humanities, do you need a master’s degree in library and information science to pursue a career as an academic librarian or as a curator of special collections? That question has lately generated impassioned arguments among Ph.D.'s who seek to enter the field of…