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Definition of a Librarian and 11 Excellent Infographics About The Librarian

 Definition of a Librarian and 11 Excellent Infographics About The Librarian highlighting their duties, functions, roles, responsibilities, worth, and importance, with interesting facts and figures. ********************************************************* A librarian is a person who is in charge of or works professionally in a library and is responsible for its management and services. The librarian takes care of the library and its resources. Typical job of a librarian includes managing collection development and acquisitions, cataloging, collections management, circulation, and providing a range of services, such as reference, information, instruction, and training services, etc. Librarians are trained in library and information science and are engaged in providing library services, usually holding a degree in library science. In the United States, the title Librarian is reserved for persons who have been awarded the ALA-accredited Master of Library and Information Science or MLIS d
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Visions of Success: Academic Libraries in a Post COVID-19 World

Visions of Success: Academic Libraries in a Post COVID-19 World by..Christopher Cox and Elliot Felix Academic libraries have been undergoing transformation. In response to student and faculty needs, libraries have moved from physical spaces valued for their collections and research support to full-service research and student success hubs. COVID-19 has both accelerated these changes and, in some cases, upended them. The pandemic has resulted in increased use of, and reliance on, digital collections, and more interest in self-service and online programming. The in-person reference interview and the learning commons as a physical one stop shop are on hiatus, though the need for those services remains. How will COVID-19 change how libraries offer their collections and services in the long term? How will it change the nature of our work? This article provides a vision of the future in which libraries become true connectors of people and catalysts for discovery. To see into the future of li
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Ten Stories That Shaped 2020

  #closethelibraries due to COVID-19 Misinformation Endangers Lives, Democracy Bookstores Challenge Amazon Vaccine Hunt Fraught with IP Issues The Internet Archive's National Emergency Library Proctorio's Bonkers Surveillance Practices Scandals Roundup The USPS Slowdown More Elsevier Cancellations News Flash: Prejudice Still Exists http://lisnews.org/node/45358
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The new IFLA Namespaces now includes the LRM

The new IFLA Namespaces now includes the LRM.... by Joseph Hafner The LRM (Library Reference Model) is the latest standard to be included on the new IFLA Namespaces site. Visit the site at: https://www.iflastandards.info/lrm.html The IFLA Namespaces is designed to promote IFLA standards using linked data and is a project from the LIDATEC subcommittee of the IFLA Committee on Standards. https://www.ifla.org/node/93279
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Literacy Cannot Wait: How Libraries Have Continued to Fulfil their Mission to Promote Literacy during COVID-19

Literacy is a foundational skill. With it, doors are opened to countless other opportunities to learn and grow. Without it, people struggle to find work, to make the most of the internet, or to gain new skills. Libraries traditionally have a key role within the infrastructure of any country for promoting literacy. From providing opportunities for pre-schoolers to maximise their exposure to language, to complementing the work of teachers in schools, to allowing adults to continue to hone their skills through access to books, and through offering a gateway to further learning for those who need it, libraries are often recognised in national literacy strategies. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruption in teaching and learning in general, including of course to literacy-promotion. Yet simply suspending work here is not an option. Without opportunities to build these skills, people with low-literacy risk falling behind. In schools, less well-off children can see the gap between th
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Libraries In Movement

One of the that pique the interest of the most curious minds in the Library & Information Sciences “universe“ is that of mobile libraries. These nomadic, wandering, itinerant units —with as many shapes and appearances as potential names— are devoted to taking books from the safe comfort of their shelves and moving them wherever they are needed or appreciated — which, for many cases, are the same. Such a curiosity is probably provoked by the handful of “exotic” experiences that are generally used as illustrative examples when describing that particular section of the library universe. https://princh.com/libraries-in-movement/#.X1c_LdxKiM8
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Which Generation Reads The Most?

Have you ever wondered which generation reads the most? Are tech-obsessed Gen Z’s and Millennials actually reading less than Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation? Best By The Numbers set out to answer this question by creating a great new infographic. They compared the reading habits of the 5 generations—Gen Z, Millennials, Gen Y, Baby Boomers, and the Silent Generation—using publicly available statistics and studies from the past few years. Here are the main highlights from the infographic: Gen Z has increased their reading more than any other generation since coronavirus struck. Millennials read more books than any other generation. Physical books still pack a punch, with every generation preferring them over digital ones. Gen Z are using social media to find their books, while Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation go to bestseller lists. Public libraries are the domain of the Millennials. Gen X are pure “news junkies”—reading the most online news daily, compared to all other gene
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