Sentences with phrase «there as a librarian»

G. E. Lessing (1729 - 81), a leading figure in the German Enlightenment, found the manuscript in the library at Wolfenbüttel, on his appointment there as librarian in 1770, and published parts of it as «Wolfenbüttel Fragments by an Unnamed Author» between 1774 and 1778.
«I had the feeling that what was I doing there as a librarian was important,» he said in The Current's [a CBC radio show] documentary «Shelf Life,» adding, «I don't how many inmates have told me that they have never read a book
«I had the feeling that what was I doing there as a librarian was important,» he said in The Current's [a CBC radio show] documentary «Shelf Life,» adding, «I don't how many inmates have told me that they have never read a book before they were incarcerated.

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I am a librarian at a University Library and found a lot of the articles actually had some very good advice that I found to be applicable to my work with dealing with the users, and there was good presentation / speech advice that was very informative as talking up the front of groups of studentsand staff is a key part of my job.
31 March 2014: As part of the AAAS Annual Meeting program each year there is a dedicated session for Science, Medical, and Engineering Librarians.
«If you are published in a journal that publishes every other month or quarterly and there is mandatory open - access in six months, then, as a librarian, you are going to cancel it,» notes Martin Frank, executive director of the American Physiological Society (APS), which publishes 14 journals, including the American Journal of Physiology (started in 1898).
There's the great use of veteran character actor Benedict Wong as an acid - tongued librarian who is also a selflessly determined soldier in the fight against evil, the transformation of his character from the comic books to be enthusiastically celebrated.
There is peer - reviewed research (as opposed to propaganda) out there, which you, as a librarian, should be able to There is peer - reviewed research (as opposed to propaganda) out there, which you, as a librarian, should be able to there, which you, as a librarian, should be able to find.
On the flip side, partly as result of the new contract the district signed with the teachers union, UTLA, there will be 96 more school counselors, 12 more nurses and six more librarians.
She remained there for twenty - five years, working as a librarian at the Biblioteca Nationale by day and cooking sumptuous meals alone in her small apartment at night.
As a high school librarian, I can tell you there isn't a great demand for ebooks among high school students (across the U.S.).
There are many different e-readers out there and some read different formats and librarians are unable to keep up with all of the new innovations such as HThere are many different e-readers out there and some read different formats and librarians are unable to keep up with all of the new innovations such as Hthere and some read different formats and librarians are unable to keep up with all of the new innovations such as HTML5.
There was a minor online kerfuffle over one librarian describing as a «design flaw» the absence of a glossary for Isabel Quintero's brilliant Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (2014), which makes extensive use of Spanish without italics or insta - translations.
Fortunately, there's a solution to this problem and as it happens it comes in the form of a program called Calibre, which might turn out to be your best librarian friend.
If you are considering contracting out some of the cataloging for your indie titles, I would be happy to help out there, as I am a Cataloging Librarian with extensive experience.
«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.
And the distribution is inequitable - there are many fewer librarians on the South and West side and in High schools as oppose to ES.
«There aren't as many librarians as there used tThere aren't as many librarians as there used tthere used to be.
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.
There will also be a list of additional tools to try, as well as «voices from the library» explaining briefly how librarians use these tools, with comments from their students and colleagues.
«There is a sense that a brief plateau has been reached as they await more comprehensive device adoption; school librarians are not seeing the overwhelming demand from students that public libraries have been seeing, nor do they have the budget to invest as heavily as they might like in new technologies,» the report explains.
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.
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.
Obviously trying each out over a couple of decades isn't possible, and as you quote Buffett «if past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians».
According to the librarian there is no such thing as a «Met Office annual year book» that he has seen in the library.
There are huge opportunities for librarians to take a leading role as publishers of both primary and secondary legal information, or at least as facilitators of publishing.
At Law Librarians News / House of Butter we don't believe as Above The Law do that the layoffs are only due to the fact that there's a squeeze on law firms once again and that «big law» as the say in the USA has had to shed jobs in 2013.
The challenge for law society Librarians is budgetary — we do have our budgets from the Members» fees and as such our collections must support their work, there isn't the money to have a general public collection of materials that those not trained in the law can use and databases comes with licenses that prevent us from allowing the public to use them.
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.
But in my French law librarian researcher experience, there are some clear drawbacks right now: — young users use less of their legal mind to search, they search with keywords, less with their lawyers» minds — also, the ease of use of online databases tend to make them forget traditional but efficient tools such as annotated Codes, and indexes and TOCs in books (be them print or e-books).
And as we stood there in the exhibit hall, the first librarian to come by and actually purchase a subscription on the spot was Genie Tyburski, a law librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia.
If an institution has good copyright guidelines, such as U of T (yes, I was involved), there will rarely be any need for a librarian to consult a lawyer about copyright.
I have not performed in - depth comparisons of its efficacy against other citation services, but I suspect there are any number of law librarians who are sharpening their pencils as we speak to perform such comparisons.
As a legal research educator and a librarian who has worked with law students and attorneys as well as judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need iAs a legal research educator and a librarian who has worked with law students and attorneys as well as judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need ias well as judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need ias judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need it.
In case there are any Slaw readers who have not yet learned of it, I thought I'd point you to some posts about Edwin Mellen Press «s lawsuit against McMaster librarian Dale Askey (and against McMaster University as well).
As a librarian, I feel a certain responsibility to be a generalist, but as a law librarian, there is pressure to be hyper - aware in my specialtAs a librarian, I feel a certain responsibility to be a generalist, but as a law librarian, there is pressure to be hyper - aware in my specialtas a law librarian, there is pressure to be hyper - aware in my specialty.
Calls to the Australian Law Librarians Group listserv will usually be answered very quickly (as many have found) and in the event that more indepth and specialised assistance is required, I would recommend Moninfo, an information broker based at Monash University, which words in conjunction with the staff of the Law Library there.
For those who claim that «first years can't possibly be worth the amounts they're paid,» MacEwen responds that comparative pricing, such as comparing the cost of a first - year at a large firm versus a law librarian, «confuses the presumed social benefits conferred by a slice of the labor market with what society at large ought to be willing to pay those who have chosen a career there
While there were doctors» notes which recommended that the applicant be assigned duties as a teacher / librarian, they did not state that the applicant had disability - related needs that prevented her from participating in the TPA process or from fulfilling her regular teaching assignment.
Mr Borovy has been at one with the Canadian library community, whose core values include a strong commitment to intellectual freedom, a freedom under continual challenge and frequently unpopular to defend Mr Borovoy's voice has always been there with the Canadian library community's to combat both censorship and episodic public apathy enabling it, and he has referred to Canada's librarians as «the Clark Kents of political action.»
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.
Senior law librarians who have long term relationships with their firm lawyers are in an excellent position to shepard the process — and as you mention — calling it KM or not, it's time to get in there!
There must be more to academic law librarianship than teaching legal research; if not, I've spent 35 years wasting my time as a law librarian.
And, finally, depending on the answers here, is there more that specialized legal researchers (such as research lawyers and law librarians) can or should do?
Connie, I subscribe to «on firmer ground» and have on many occasions found there a lot of useful information in my job as a librarian.
There are many kinds of librarians such as college librarian, academic librarian, children's librarian, public librarian, etc..
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