The Kept-Up Academic Librarian

Want to stay up-to-date on all things academic? Then visit the blog of The Kept-Up Academic Librarian.  Founded by Steven Bell, the Kept-Up Academic Librarian is filled with all of the latest information on academic libraries and higher education.

ALA Core Values

The foundation of modern librarianship rests on an essential set of core values that define, inform, and guide our professional practice. These values reflect the history and ongoing development of the profession and have been advanced, expanded, and refined by numerous policy statements of the American Library Association...

Read the entire webpage here: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/statementspols/corevaluesstatement/corevalues.cfm

Ferriero is first librarian in charge at National Archives

Deep inside the gray stone fortress of the National Archives building downtown, amid dimly lit stacks protected by locked doors, the new archivist of the United States takes down a box containing a document dating back almost 200 years...


Read the entire article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/12/07/ST2009120701406.html

JD's Book Recommendations

What's better for a Librarian to do than to curl up with a good book and relax?

Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Authors on Good Time

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks (hey, you never know)

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Stephen King (in general)

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

And remember....tell 'em JD sent ya!  :)

UB Student Survival Guide Online Book Club Begins 12/7/2009

Welcome to the UB Student Survival Guide's Book Club!  Since the semester is winding down and we will all have a little extra time on our hands (finally!) - why not read a book with your fellow classmates?! 

For our inaugural book, we have chosen Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.

We have also included a children's book for our SLMS students (and all others who are also interested!) - December's book is Neil Gayman's The Graveyard Book.

You may begin posting questions and comments about either book immediately.  Links to book resources, websites, etc. are also welcome.

Each month we will chose a different book - so if there's a great book you would like to share with your fellow LIS classmates, please post it here!

Welcome to the UBSSG Book Club!!  Pull up a chair and read with us!
 
Aimee, Amanda, Dan & JD

Welcome!

Welcome to the UB DLIS Student Survival Guide Blog!  Here you can post questions or respond to posts by fellow students.