Librarian in the US

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Presentation to staff at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on librarianship in the US.

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Sharing the Library experience abroad

Experiencing librarianship

Salem State UniversitySalem, Massachusetts

Library Education

Librarians Expected to have MLS (Masters in Library Science)

Good or Bad?

Subject Masters Degree

Subject Masters becoming requirement Professional Development activities

necessary

Humanities Librarian: Liaison Art Foreign Languages Music Philosophy Theatre/Speech Communication

What is Liaison?

Work with departments to Teach Information Literacy

Collection Development Specialized Reference for Classes

Collection Development

Shared Collections through a Consortium

WorldCat

Digital Development

Still Learning about Digital Books

Making Collection Development Difficult

Order digital copy? Or print copy?

Information Literacy?

Working with classes that come to the library

How to find material for research (paper)

New ways to engage students on how to use the library

Ethics of Information: Beyond Databases How does Google Work? What is plagiarism? What is visual literacy?

What to know about managing image online

Visual Literacy

Internet vs. Databases

Nothing Really Visible• Invisible Web

– Databases, subscription Based• Visible Web

– On the Internet

Mediating the Two

• Working with new, updated collections• Finding reliable resources and using

them ethically online– Challenges of music, artworks, video,

articles

Some New Items

Films on Demand Thousands of streaming videos on a wide

variety of academic topics. Oxford Digital Collections Theater Full-Text

Thousands of Plays Available in Full-Text

Oxford Online

Notable Collections

Naxos Music Full Streaming of Music Albums

ArtSTOR Millions of High Quality Images

Films on Demand Thousands of streaming videos on a wide

variety of academic topics.

Naxos

ArtSTOR

Films on Demand

RefWorks

An online research manage-ment, writing and collaboration tool

LibGuides

Libguides: Example

Online Tutorials

Mobile Technology

Mobile Library

Using iPads, iPhones, Androids and e-readers: Kindle, Nook for books

OverDrive

Digital Books available through consortium

Reference Desk

Old Library = Staffed the Reference Desk Liaison Model = Moved Away from

Reference Desk New Library = No Reference Desk

The “Old” Library

Interim Library

Interim

New Library and Learning Commons

Library and Learning Commons? Library as Place Enhance Social Interaction Cross Disciplinary Learning