tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post2781701050904952778..comments2024-03-27T05:00:00.090-04:00Comments on Letters to a Young Librarian: 10 Things I Didn’t Learn in Library School as a Then-Future Cataloger, by Jessica SchombergJessica Olinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00282500023825318766noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-25234098782464075272018-03-20T12:11:20.027-04:002018-03-20T12:11:20.027-04:00Knowing how to write grant proposals and develop b...Knowing how to write grant proposals and develop budgets are such great skills! I'm lucky to work with people who have those skills, because it definitely takes support.schomjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06522376717704217029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-79850080581204425672018-03-20T12:09:21.253-04:002018-03-20T12:09:21.253-04:00Hi! Now that you remind me, I do remember Terry wa...Hi! Now that you remind me, I do remember Terry warning us that much of the information we learned has a short lifespan! Good points about how pedagogy has changed a lot over the years. Being willing to engage in ongoing learning is so important!schomjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06522376717704217029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-74483718584343542312018-03-20T11:08:04.692-04:002018-03-20T11:08:04.692-04:00Great post! I went to library school around the sa...Great post! I went to library school around the same time (Pitt). I was forced to take a management class and I've always been glad that I was. I had no intention of being a manager, but 20 years later I'm starting my first non-management job! In addition to preparing me a little bit for being a manager, the course taught me things like how to write a grant proposal and develop a budget.Tarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113933659867651218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-12595365663574843922018-03-19T18:19:57.680-04:002018-03-19T18:19:57.680-04:00HEY! Fellow first year Ischooler and Carlyle stude...HEY! Fellow first year Ischooler and Carlyle student! I also had Allyson and graduated from the ischool in 2001. (Is an antelope a document?) She used to have this cartoon on her door - Catalogers from Hell or something like that. I *did* take the Management class from Terry Brooks. All I remember from it is some lecture about "is a library a church or a widget maker". Did not really help when I stepped into a management position 6 years later. Nothing for that but to read read read, take a class, go to a leadership conference, then read more. So many things I had to learn about good communication, listening, progressive discipline, emotional intelligence, setting an standard, advocating for your reports, etc. Not sure that could have been taught in class. Managing a large department taught so much about myself that I couldn't have learned in class. Terry always did tell us that the tech / policy lifespan for our MLS was about 6 months, and that they were teaching us how to work to keep ourselves current after we left. I took his WebTech Essentials also. It taught me about patience. LOL Same for teaching and pedagogy - a lot of the attention to flexible teaching, attention to outcomes and assessment that I'm asked to learn now didn't exist then. Has it improved my teaching and made my teaching more useful for student success? I think so.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15049190242471796434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-15105473179196955792018-03-16T19:59:23.229-04:002018-03-16T19:59:23.229-04:00Thanks for sharing! I will take a look at it 😊Thanks for sharing! I will take a look at it 😊schomjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06522376717704217029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061870849031468581.post-61717475594886310382018-03-16T16:02:58.126-04:002018-03-16T16:02:58.126-04:00I look a management class that used this textbook:...I look a management class that used this textbook: http://amzn.to/2piwKIb and I loved the course and the text because it taught a modern management style that is circular in design as opposed to the traditional top-down triangle management model. I longed to actually see this new management style implemented in the places I have worked, but haven't yet, except until now, where I am a solo librarian, so it doesn't really apply.A Texas Artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04682356194041895326noreply@blogger.com