It's training week as a Graduate Academic Assistant at the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at UBC's Koerner Library . My i...

The recent announcement of the dissolution of the School of Informatics at the University of Buffalo is another example of the marginaliz...

If there's but one business book you ever read in your life, Good To Great should be on the shortlist. Jim Collins , a former Stanford...

Things are coming together. And a session for UBC Pharmacy residents titled, Search skills for UBC pharmacy residents:Appraised tools, PubMe...

What makes a “good” post-secondary institutional library? Is it the collections? The atmosphere? Or the photocopiers? Unfortunately, student...

Jeannette Woodward's Creating the Customer-Driven Library: Building on the Bookstore Model offers fascinating insights into the emergin...

"Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing," says Rosalind in As You Like It . How true Shakespeare's words still ring...

It's summer, and with the heat, ideas too can melt and meld together into a mishmash of incoherent mess. Recently, I've been introd...

Before entering the MLIS program at UBC, I had never realized how important teaching is in librarianship. Today, I had the chance to see on...

Recently, a librarian manager discussed with me his managerial philosophy. Managing people has always piqued my interest, as I see it as a ...

In refuting the findings of Bergman’s size of the unreachable areas of the internet called the “ invisible web ,” Exploring the Academic In...

One thing I learned about librarianship is the amount of responsibilities and different roles required for this profession. Recently, I read...

I recently came across Phillip Jones and Jamie Stiver’s Good Fences Make Bad Libraries: Rethinking Binary Constructions of Employment in Aca...

I followed up on Google Scholar with an article I came across by James Caufield, Where did Google Get Its Value , which is not only fascina...

As fodder for future discussion, BMB Librarian Dean Giustini suggested that I read Neuhaus, et al.’s “The Depth and Breadth of Google Schola...