tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post2541373112075337121..comments2024-03-27T05:00:00.090-04:00Comments on Letters to a Young Librarian: Welcome to Our WorldJessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-90851148192782951472015-05-13T13:11:37.219-04:002015-05-13T13:11:37.219-04:00Figuring out the best hours to have a reference pr...Figuring out the best hours to have a reference presence is something I'm currently wrestling with for next semester (especially with the added complication of losing a person--the director!--between now and then). Having evening hours until 9 pm has been our practice and maintaining that is supported by our ref stats. When to staff the desk during the daytime is my current dilemma (since I'm going to have to work around as-yet-unscheduled committee meetings!).Cynthia Bowen (calimae)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10835271035647322485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-90453517721945441442015-05-12T15:34:44.574-04:002015-05-12T15:34:44.574-04:00Good point about people who don't come in unti...Good point about people who don't come in until late. I'm here at night sometimes, but not regularly and almost never that late.Jessica Olinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-49746561546400426252015-05-12T12:42:46.177-04:002015-05-12T12:42:46.177-04:00Hm. I was really underprepared (for a different se...Hm. I was really underprepared (for a different set of reasons) as an undergrad, and for me the library didn't represent struggle so much as...just not really anything at all, since I'd never had coursework before college that required me to use it, so I had no idea what it offered (other than books). And then since I was pretty much incapable of starting a paper earlier than 10pm the night before it was due (my underpreparedness included *awesome* study skills), I would never have had the opportunity to encounter crazy hats - I'm not sure I was actually physically in the library at a time when it was likely to be staffed by anyone other than student workers.<br /><br />Aside from study skills, my critically missing skill was *research* - I'd never written a research paper before college (which would be how I never did anything in the library), so I didn't know how. College *assigned* a bunch of them but never *taught* them, I guess assuming we'd all gone to high schools that didn't drop that ball? So for me, the place where library presence would have been most useful & welcome was in partnership with one of those freshman writing seminars I had to take (and in a redesigned version that actually taught research skills ;). Librarians could have been a really critical, welcoming component for *helping me build the skills I knew I was missing*.<br /><br />Instead the library was basically an awesome quiet place for me to do all my take-home tests. From 8 to 11pm. When there probably weren't librarians. :/<br /><br />I suspect my campus would have responded really positively to the library displaying stuff students made, though.Andromedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570669960490418748noreply@blogger.com