He has worked as a manual laborer, is
trained as a librarian, spent twelve years as a bookseller, and was a translator and literary critic before becoming a full - time writer.
This comes from
my training as a librarian and information scientist, where the role of the user is key.
Not exact matches
An innovative approach introduced in Scotland is countering the teacher recruitment crisis by
training librarians, classroom assistants and school administrative staff
as teachers.
The very nature of a
librarian's service role within the school and community, helping students learn in any and all subjects, and using the best tools for the job, makes them the perfect person to ask about what tools are the most efficient,
as they can provide
training and guidance.
At Mt. Holyoke College, she served
as a reference
librarian and
as a
training coordinator responsible for curriculum support, instructional technology and
training.
With funding from major foundations and with state and district efforts to
train teachers to become content curators,
as opposed to content consumers, OER is helping to mobilize educators and
librarians to bring quality, curated content to school and college classrooms in ways that students learn best.
This skill is most often relegated to
librarians, and
as we have witnessed the digitization of modern libraries — the opportunities for
training in information literacy has rapidly declined.
When adjusting for enrollment and inflation, school funding has been cut in the following areas since leadership of the General Assembly switched hands in 2010 (a time period in which the state was already struggling to find resources
as a result of the Great Recession): classroom teachers, instructional support personnel (counselors, nurses,
librarians, etc.), school building administrators (principals and assistant principals), teacher assistants, transportation, low wealth schools, disadvantaged students, central office, limited English proficiency, academically gifted, small counties, driver
training, and school technology.
Like most school
librarians, Ms. Hearne has been
trained both
as a teacher and a
librarian, a combination she thinks is perfectly suited to helping students and teachers
as the Common Core http://goo.gl/JBja3
Because book buyers, booksellers,
librarians, even some savvy consumers are lead and «
trained» to think of professionally published books
as the standard.
Training programmes focused on providing blind and partially sighted participants with all the information on how read digital books complement these activities
as well
as for other supply chain participants, such
as librarians.
Imagine all the new possibilities for highly
trained librarians and family literacy workers in general if we want families to discover, enjoy and absorb books despite such obstacles
as e-book price gouges by big publishers.
Librarians collaborate with teachers to provide background information and curricular support,
as well
as training on new technology and initiatives.
Teachers may need to be shown that
librarians can serve
as instructional partners, and both
librarians and teachers need
training in collaborative instruction (Montiel - Overall & Grimes, 2013).
Keeping in mind that no other educator receives
as much
training in selection, evaluation, and integration of educational resources, one cost - effective and efficient way to send a message that the
librarian is a resource for everyone is by thinking of the
librarian as a chief information officer (CIO).
As more books go digital,
librarians will occupy more of the
training and coaching role.
The auction catalog was
as fascinating
as the sale itself, featuring rigorously researched lot descriptions,
as well
as essays about the LA artists and Miriam Matthews (1905 - 2003), the first professionally
trained African American
librarian in California.
Our justice departments, attorneys general, law societies and bar associations must not overlook the potential of courthouse libraries
as the space where their access to justice initiatives connect with the public, with the courthouse
librarians acting
as the
trained ambassadors.
As online legal research resources become more personalized and sophisticated, it is increasingly important that lawyers outside of major urban centres be offered such
training and have access to the reference services of a
trained law
librarian at the local level, especially if they are to be expected to offer competent and competitive legal services to their clients.
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.
It is helpful for law firm
librarians and academic law
librarians to talk about student
training, whether in a formal setting such
as a conference or something more informal.
We're starting to see a lot more information being conveyed with less reliance on text — a challenge for
librarians and lawyers, who are
trained as «word people».
Most
training in my shop happens
as librarians areinvited to attend practice gr meetings.
One of my favourite tasks
as a firm
librarian is to provide
training (formal) and mentoring (informal) to articling students on gathering materials to answer legal research problems.
The duo already have played matchmaker to numerous couples and are now
training librarians from
as many
as 300 facilities to set up their own dating service.
I also am no expert on grey literature, but I think due to the difficulty in categorizing (and finding) it (especially for law - related GL), and due to its relative importance, I wonder if this
as a small example that illustrates the important role that MLS / MISt / MIS -
trained librarians can play (compared to a non-
trained information seeker).
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.
If you have a HND or foundation degree, it may be possible to enter
as a library assistant and then work up to a full
librarian position by gaining extra qualifications and undertaking further
training.