Are the most desirable reference and research librarians ones who are subject-experts, or those who have excellent broad knowledge in many areas (i.e. generalists)? Lately I’ve heard a number of opinions on the debatable impediments of subject specialization (see Pereyaslavska’s article in The Courier, re: “being overqualified”), along with the advantages of being a generalist [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
Re-evaluating knowing “too much about too little”
Posted in Libraries, tagged Academic Libraries, Collection Development, Jobs, Publishing, Stuff that interests me, Written work on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Published!!
Posted in Libraries, tagged Digital Humanities, ola.access, Ontario Library Association, Publishing, Written work on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
OLA.access has published an article that I co-wrote with Marian Davies, and is featured in the Winter 2010 issue!! This is the first time that something I’ve written has been published, and I couldn’t be happier. The short piece is entitled “Defining Digital Humanities” and serves as a general (but rather wordy) introduction to the [...]