Library science

at times they can make more familiar components of our lives, such as libraries, seem outdated and antiquated. However it is the pairing of the two, technologies with the library, which have made the pair even more relevant in the evolving information landscapes that we modern humans find ourselves in. This continually changing landscape can be a daunting thought when just starting out in library school, but when I take a step back and think about it, when have humans ever been in a world that wasn’t changing? When writing this reflection paper this constant change, the evolution of librarianship, equitable access, and an ever present need to balance old with new are some of the ideas that I have found to be repeated in our readings and class discussions. Moreover the changing information landscapes that information professionals find themselves in, drives home the requirement of lifelong learning as an absolute necessity. Constant Change and Evolution of Libraries As overwhelming as the idea of continual change might be, we, as information students and…

The Nathalie Wolfe Pediatric Sciences Library In 1949, a group of women realized there was a great need for a ‘hospital for children only’ (Valley Children Hospital, n.d). By 1952, the hospital opened and served its first patient. With the success of the hospital, a larger facility was necessary. After a decade of planning and building, the hospital finally moved to its new facility in Madera County. One minute after midnight on August 31, 1998, the move to the new facility began and the…

notes are taken or used to prepare for some sort of presentation of the information gathered. At this point users may finally feel a sense of relief or disappointment, depending upon their confidence in the information that they have found. This stage is the organization of the gathered information into relevance and redundancy and determining the best way to present the information for the chosen topic. Many other information professionals have taken Kuhlthau 's process and expanded upon it…

narrowly based than public and school libraries, special libraries limit their scope of expertise to serve particular requests of their clients. “The special library offers information access and specialized custom service to ensure rapid delivery of information to meet customers’ unique information needs” (82). Special libraries can be found in any number of places such as corporate, law, or medical offices, as well as in museums, news rooms, and in non-profits, and it is a small non-profit…

Library has always been a magical place to me since I was five years old, and it played a compelling role in my childhood development. How librarians know where to find what information from the temple of mystery was amazing to me at that time, and I get to understand comprehensively of library’s vital value to people and community when I studied in universities and visited libraries around the world, especially after few years’ involvement in library as a volunteer. A library is a place where…

graduate schools there, I was browsing the internet when I landed on Simmons’ nutrition program, a field I’ve been toying with since college. But when the nutrition program didn’t strike a chord, I thought, “why not examine what else Simmons offers?” And that’s when the connection was made. As I browsed Simmons’ library and information science classes, my excitement bubbled: history of the book, cataloging, book publishing and librarianship, metadata, visual communication. This is what I’ve been…

The UIC University Library is central to the intellectual life of the University. The Library supports the research, education, service, and patient care activities of the University by ensuring that faculty, students, and other users have access to a broad and diversified range of scholarly resources, both through its own rich collection of materials and through its collaborations with other institutions. The UIC Library is one Library collection in four cities, and includes the Richard J.…

I wanted to see what the library had to offer as a patron, not a researcher. This could be considered a social anthropological approach by first getting a library card and checking a book out as a customer of the library during a field visit. I got a feel for the process and what the library had to offer the public. Similar to what Stoddart (as cited in Berg and Lune, 2012) described as covert ethnography. No one at the time knew what I was there for, so I could observe the library…

Importance of a stronger relationship between students and library A college library is one of the most important assets students will need to succeed academically. With library support, students have access to good resources to complete the assignments given to them. The books in college and university libraries are divided by subject, using the Library of Congress system, therefore, it does not matter if a student transferred from a community college to a university, they will be able to find…

The Queens Borough Public Library (also known as Queens Library) is one of the three library systems operating in New York City. The library has 62 locations all across Queens. Volunteering at the library for the past two summers has allowed me to further understand how Queens Library operates. I have always been curious about how the library system is able to be interconnected with all 62 branches. As a kid, I always wondered how they were able to keep track of everything. I could return and…