Sentences with phrase «even as the librarians»

Even as the librarians were let go due to «budget issues» the superintendent was given cash bonuses, and the board acquiesced.

Not exact matches

But even as the major functions of scholarly publishing march on, scholars, publishers and librarians start to ask, «What does the future of the scholarly journal look like?»

As of this moment, I don't even have the first substitute librarian assignment, so I may not be going back - to - school for sometime!

As a longtime Colonia resident, it shocks me to read that eliminating librarians is even being considered.

Now we can be even more effective as we create new resources and services designed to position librarians as leaders in a digital transformation.»

The Tennessee Association of School Librarians (TASL) was ecstatic for AASL to offer a free ESSA workshop to our members, and we were even more ecstatic to host the workshop as part of our 25th annual conference.

Neil Gaiman has long been on record as a fan of libraries, sometimes even calling himself a «feral child» raised by librarians among the stacks.

Reviews are always difficult to get, but reviews for middle grade books have been even more important, because major review channels like the School Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist serve as social - proof to parents, teachers, and librarians, that middle grade books are good to pass onto their children.

Because book buyers, booksellers, librarians, even some savvy consumers are lead and «trained» to think of professionally published books as the standard.

Even as some schools move to virtual collections, the opportunities for school librarians to influence learning will actually increase.

We want to automate as much as possible so we can make it even easier for librarians and JukePop to maintain.

As a longtime Colonia resident, it shocks me to read that eliminating librarians is even being considered.

I work as a school librarian in Sweden and constantly meet the prejudice that listening to an audiobook is cheating, even though they are helping students with Reading disabilities significally.

An author of books for young adults points to research showing that strong school library programs led by a certified school librarian help ALL students do better in school, including students whose parents can't afford to provide all the resources kids need to do well in school: «[Research] tells us that even after adjusting for factors such as parental education, father's occupation, and social class, the impact of having books available in the home is as strong a predictor of school success as socioeconomic status.»

I never thought about becoming a librarian even when I started working at my university's library part - time for two years and then two years full - time as a library academic technician.

From a librarian perspective, such news is secondary to the ongoing battle to convince publishers such as Macmillan, which is the parent of Tom Doherty Associates, to make even DRM'd content available to the library channel.

That said, PW select is now free, though I've yet to meet a youth services librarian that takes the reviews as seriously from PW as they do from SLJ (even though PW will ding you if you have too many copy edits or a non-pro «looking» cover.

If we needed even more validation that comic books are once again vogue and that librarians and teachers these days aren't as shouty at kids as they used to be about reading the things, well, here we go...

Still, there was a strong sense in answers from librarians and users that significant change was inevitable, even as readers» romance with printed books persists.

Issues ranged from patrons» inexperience with technology (such as setting up and remembering their email address) to the shifting gadget landscape, which made it even harder for librarians to stay up to speed themselves.

Even as anxious publishers are hoping to increase friction in the ebook lending experience, librarians have been clamoring for vendors of integrated library systems (ILS) to make e-lending a unified, sleek experience.

I hope that we will never loose sight of our unique Identification as an Association of Caribbean Law Librarians, even though we have members from outside the Caribbean.

And in my new firm, there are areas where I have to start from scratch as well, even though the previous librarian did a much better job of leaving a trail than I did.

So, AALL, stay as you are and keep up the good work as the centre of gravity for law librarians (even those of us in Canada, and elsewhere outside the US).

As one respondent puts it, the profession needs to fight for «recognition that even with the Internet, librarians are still necessary; maybe even more necessary than ever.»

Large corporations such as Thomson Reuters, Elsevier, and Amazon have inserted themselves into, or even replaced, the librarian - patron relationship.

But even a pyramid of puffery such as law's needn't so rigorously consign law librarians to below - ground obscurity.

As Slawyers will doubtless know, Michel - Adrien is the Reference Librarian at the Supreme Court of Canada, and, perhaps even more important, Library Boy the blogger, at http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/.

Yet often to the frustration of even the big firm intermediaries such as law librarians and knowledge management specialists, they are obliged to deal with possibly questionable business practices and snake oil salespeople masquerading as trainers and technical advisers, when the need and desire is for expertise, experience and intimacy that are not made available, because they do not exist.

In addition to the traditional career working in a library, many librarians use their research skills in database development or even as freelance information brokers.

More important, whether you're a regular reader or just discovered us, we sincerely hope you read us as we intend — as a virtual mentor, diverse support group, a collection of amazing advice... and perhaps even as a knowledgeable reference librarian (sans the reading glasses and the «Quiet!»

Librarian may work in variety of settings such as schools, colleges, museums, law firms, government agencies or even ngo's.