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Research: The good, the bad, and the anxious
In research and in life, human beings are prone to uncertainty and susceptible to the circular thinking of worry. According to the DSM-5, anxiety is anticipation of future threat. Sometimes that threat comes in the form of an overlooked article … Continue reading
Collaborating with public relations students to promote library subject specialists
In fall 2015, a group of librarians, who are members of the Library West Creative Team at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF), sought new methods for effectively reaching undergraduate students. Previous internal studies showed … Continue reading
Becoming a librarian BFF
At the ACRL 2017 conference in Baltimore, Maryland, we presented a poster on a program called, “The Librarian BFF Program for Distance Graduate Students.”1 The title is a tongue-in-cheek way of framing librarians to be students’ and faculty’s “best friend … Continue reading
A Reference for That: Six Words
Now, what I mean is that we are no longer able to think like regular members of the population when it comes to searching. We have come, more and more—over years on desk—to think like the indexer or taxonomist of … Continue reading