Becky Givens is a Technical Services Librarian featured in the book Careers in Library and Information Services, which includes a section on careers in special libraries where librarians describe the work they do in various settings. My interview with Becky is below.
Resources to help you think about intellectual property when you use AI, plus links to repositories of AI-generated images from a library expert.
17 actionable methods for marketing libraries of all types, sizes, and budgets from a library expert and instructor
Ilaria Scaglia and Valeria Vanesio argue that emotions matter both to people whose histories are documented by archives and to archivists/librarians
New book for librarians on conducting original research offers detailed research methods and shows how to run and interpret statistical tests.
Interview with the editors of Introduction to Law Librarianship, the first and only open source textbook for the profession.
Interview with the editors of a new book that offers insight into information literacy needs in the workplace as technology evolves
Interview with the authors of A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship, with a view to the future of the profession in the digital era.
Preferred resources for instructional design in special libraries, from library expert and instructional technology professor Lauren Hays
Special librarians create instructional materials, lead workshops and training sessions; it’s important to know about instructional design strategies
Google Bard and ChatGPT are similar tools, but they have significant differences to be aware of; detailed analysis
Copyright Best Practices includes chapters on fair use, music, images, data mining, and other topics relevant to special libraries and academic ones.
Librarians need to consider whom their collections represent and develop collection management policies to create equitable and inclusive collections
