Sentences with phrase «so as a librarian»

So as a librarian (or bookstore buyer) with extremely limited staff and resources, how do we choose?

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As a librarian, book jackets are a little annoying to add to the library, so it's so nice to have such a beautiful inside cover!

I would love to try the Eileen Fisher pants you love so much, but as an elementary school librarian who sits on the floor with little kids, I am not sure I want to spend that much..

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 the headline says, I love books, especially YA fiction, so much so that I'm studying to become a children's librarian.

My mom had volunteered as the school nurse and later the school librarian when I was young, so it seemed natural and right that I, too, would get involved.

As President Barack Obama told a group of librarians recently, «In this new economy, teaching our kids just enough so that they can get through Dick and Jane isn't going to cut it,» he said.

In our district, school librarians are the experts in finding and evaluating open educational resources — and helping teachers learn to do so as well.

On Thursday, May 28th, I was lucky enough to be released from my regular duties as a middle school librarian so I could hop over to the City and spend a day at Book Expo America.

Most of the librarians, Carolyn included, had come to think of this road as the Path of Tacos, so - called in honor of a Mexican joint they snuck out to sometimes.

I called my branch and a wonderful librarian called Baker and Taylor on my behalf — within 24 hours they had the option to download as epub file turned back on so I can resume sideloading onto my Nook via Adobe.

Now you want to be careful because you want to choose the subject categories that are relevant to your book, but we always talk here at Ingram about, we have so many wonderful librarians who are excellent at categorizing books into the specific category that's relevant to their title, but it is also a marketing play as well, and so you want to think about connecting with your audience.

Her job as a children's librarian only makes her love of books so much greater.

So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life — a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

Of these five winners, projects included making libraries more accessible to the public writer - editors of Wikipedia and building a community of librarians as Wikipedia contributors; three separate projects involved some form of historical perspective or community building through storytelling, including one that sought to connect children to their incarcerated parents; and one project — not so surprisingly — was designed around helping libraries find and receive much - needed funding sources.

The very nice and helpful librarian offered to help me check one of the CDs, but I explained to her that doing so was not necessary, as I now had lossless recreations of all of the music, and of course I would be rsyncing it to my school music server.

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

We encourage academic librarians interested in a library - wide subscription to first take out an individual subscription so as to ascertain if BookBrowse is right for your needs.

So begins an eventful odyssey peppered with a formidable dragon, recalcitrant gnomes, an inscrutable magic cat, a handsome librarian, a sinister sorcerer, and more than a few narrow escapes as fate draws Landover's intrepid princess to the last place she expected to go, and into the thick of a mystery that will put her mettle to the test — and might bring the kingdom to its knees.

«eReaders were very popular Christmas gifts this year, and now we're having people stop in to figure out how to use them,» stated the Librarian Jenelle Hutchens, who will be there at the workshop trying to make users comfortable with their e-readers and how best to use them so as to ensure they have the most hassle free e-book reading experience.

«So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life — a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time,» says the description on King's site.

While there are budgetary priorities that need to be advocated for in Washington DC, there are many states that lack complementary definitions in state statute about school libraries and librarians, as well as many states and Local Education Agencies (LEA) that have not been in the habit of funding programs or positions because there was no compelling reason in the law to do so.

One of the biggest issues IMO is that principals can't really tell if a librarian is good at his / her job or not, so that is the negative side to what you perceive as lack of accountability.

I'm a little puzzled as to why you're so resentful of school librarians specifically.

As a blogger, as a librarian and as an educator I'm so pleased to have discovered NetGalleAs a blogger, as a librarian and as an educator I'm so pleased to have discovered NetGalleas a librarian and as an educator I'm so pleased to have discovered NetGalleas an educator I'm so pleased to have discovered NetGalley.

It is precisely this responsiveness that has altered the landscape of the kinds of services and resources made available within the school library and stewarded by the school librarian, as so deftly articulated in a recent report published by ALA's Young Adult Library Services Association titled The Future of Library Services for and with Teens: A Call to Action.

As economies grow tighter for book buyers and as professional librarians become endangered species it is so helpful to be able to read and review new titles without making expensive mistakes and doubly pleasing when I find a gem and am able to recommend it for purchasAs economies grow tighter for book buyers and as professional librarians become endangered species it is so helpful to be able to read and review new titles without making expensive mistakes and doubly pleasing when I find a gem and am able to recommend it for purchasas professional librarians become endangered species it is so helpful to be able to read and review new titles without making expensive mistakes and doubly pleasing when I find a gem and am able to recommend it for purchase!

Just as the vendors / manufacturers must market their wares, so must we librarians.

As you will see from the interview, Travis is an elementary school librarian; he also happens to be a pretty funny guy, so you won't want to miss the interview.

So there's a lot of librarians and book sellers on the panel, there's agents, there's people working all deeply inside traditional publishing, there are authors and experts such as yourself.

«Turning Pages was my first public commission, originally intended as a commemorative gesture to the retiring librarian at Margate library, so I am thrilled to revisit it over 40 years later and create this edition which will, I hope, support Turner Contemporary and its vital work in Margate today.»

At the time, i worked as a relief librarian, and i do have a love of books, so thought that this would be a good subject matter for the bathroom.

If you haven't found anything in the journals on linearity of the effect of those molecules at 10x concentration — assuming you've asked a good reference librarian for help and she's not been able to find anything to answer you — I'd speculate that nobody's published on that narrow question because all the other feedbacks at that point would be so complex as to muddy the waters, so to speak.

Law librarians can teach lawyers these necessary skills so as to maximize the cost - savings that electronic records management technology can provide to law practice management:

Throughout the entirety of my career as an Academic Law Librarian and Legal Research Professor, my colleagues and I debated with the question of whether or not we should be (1) tenure track and, if so, (2) considered part of the law school faculty and invited to participate in the governance of the school.

In fact, I would argue that as time goes on, universities will be hiring less and less law librarians (in fact librarians of any sort) because they cost so much more than library technicians or assistants.

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).

Until such time that these exist, more trips into the other camp need to be made — attend their conferences, publish in their discipline's journals: anything that will start to put human faces on the monolithic titles such as «librarian» or «publisher» so that we can get past the distrust and the disputes and move on to the more important work.

Rather be bold (i.e. take charge and lead the way), calm and carry out the task, and clear that it is our job as law librarians to do so.

So, just by virtue of us delving into recordings and podcasting, this in and of itself is changing our roles as librarians.

I entered the profession in the dog days of this law library Eden, but not so late that I wasn't trained to believe that all of us — librarians and publishers — worked best when we worked together; and that we, as law librarians, had a professional responsibility not only to our institutions but to society, too.

They might be unknown to many of my younger colleagues, so I'll take the liberty of naming a few (without details of their distinguished careers): McGill's Marianne Scott had just recently been appointed National Librarian of Canada; Diana Priestly was just finishing her tenure as founding Law Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at Osler.

I like to think of librarians as the original content curators, so I am curious to see this new perspective and what I can learn from it.

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

Perhaps it's only librarians who care as we spend so much time sifting and fossicking through un-useful results that searching inefficiently is something we do our best to avoid.

So often we see the application of technology solely from our own perspective — as lawyers, librarians, judges, IT specialists, etc. — without realizing that other perspectives exist within the justice community and that these perspectives must be recognized and accommodated before mutually satisfactory goals can ultimately be achieved.

I'm a librarian, so CPD requirements don't apply to me, but I have to say that my experiences over the years as a mentor have been a great development opportunity for me.

I have to say, as a law librarian, I rarely had the «luxury» of reading judgments so don't have any good ones to pull out of my arsenal.

A Librarian's resume should ideally be very clear and crisp in its approach so as to make the employer easily understand the his / her relevant education and experience in a glimpse.