Best of Fall Semester 2011

Carrying on the tradition of past end-of-semester wrap-up posts, we’ve pulled together some articles from Fall Semester, 2011 for your viewing enjoyment. Some of you may be in your last semester in library school (congratulations!) or maybe you’re still in the first year (hang in there!). Either way, to keep you busy we’ve compiled some reading lists you can return to over the next few weeks and get caught up. Think of it as HackLibSchool 101.

Our Top 10 Posts (by hits):

• A Well-Kept Secret: How to Become an International School Librarian
• How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Love Library School
• Hack Your Program: San Jose State University SLIS (Online)
• Say What? Things I Haven’t Learned in Library School
• HackLibSchool on Occupy Wall Street: How do Libraries Fit In?
• Quality Control
• In Defense of Online LIS Education
• Work/Life Balance in Library School
• What Does Your Degree Mean to You?
• A Cool Fundraising Idea…or Maybe Just a Shameless Plug

Top Post per Writer (by hits):

• The Digital Public Library of America – Micah Vandegrift
• Quality Control – Zack Frazier
• What Does Your Degree Mean to You? – Annie Pho
• A Well-Kept Secret: How to Become an International School Librarian – Laura Sanders
• How to Spend Your Winter Vacation – Rebecca Halpern
• Say What? Things I Haven’t Learned in Library School – Rose L. Chou
• HackLibSchool on Occupy Wall Street: How do Libraries Fit In? – Julia Skinner
• Internship Tips and Insights – Lauren Dodd
• HuffPo: Helping or Hurting? – Turner Masland
• The Elevator Speech – Ashley Wescott
• Hack Library School: Fall 2011 Kickoff! – Britt Foster
• iPads, and Kindles, and nooks! Oh, My! – Teresa Silva

Best Comment Conversations:

• HackLibSchool on Occupy Wall Street: How do Libraries Fit In?
• In Defense of Online LIS Education
• Quality Control

Catch Up on Our Series:

• Library School Starter Kit:
  • The First Term
  • A Class Checklist
  • Questions and Advice
• Declassified: Reference
• Hack Your Program: San Jose State University SLIS (Online)

Weirdest Search Terms That Led Someone to Our Blog:

• cartoon library
• how to hack firstclass
• i hate school logo
• how to dress like a librarian
• handsome businessman
• heroes to look up to
• glasses for reading in bed

Recommended by Your Humble Writers:

Rose

• Stuchell, Lance. (November 17, 2011). Wanted, Free Labor: The Impact and Ethics of Unpaid Work
• Clancy, Kate. (December 14, 2011). Networking, Scholarship and Service: The Place of Science Blogging in Academia
• Manjoo, Farhad. (December 13, 2011). Independent bookstores vs. Amazon: Buying books on Amazon is better for authors, better for the economy, and better for you

Annie

• Bondfield, Bret. (January 11,2012). Perspective and Doing Good Work via In the Library with a Lead Pipe
• Meyer, Katie. (January 20, 2012). Branding Yourself: Not as painful as you think via Gradhacker
• Yelton, Andromeda. (October 31, 2011). The two most important things I know about public speaking

Rebecca

• Dorney, Erin and Eric Frierson. (November 9, 2011.) Renovation as a Catalyst for Change  via In the Library with the Lead Pipe.
• MacColl, John. (2010). Academic Libraries and the Challenge of Abundance.

Micah

• ACRL College and Research Library News Scholarly Communications Column Article: The Inevitability of Open Access
• The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus - Daily Email is invaluable
• A Literary History of Word Processing – NYT
• A Digital Public Library for America? – NYPL
• Has ‘Indie’ become ‘Adult Contemporary’? – NPR
• The Hipsterification of America – NPR
• Excerpt: Take This Book – The Peoples Library at Occupy Wall Street

And for good measure a few digital books that I’ve seen develop from nothing that came out this fall:

• Hacking The Academy - a collection of essays on the (re)evolutions occurring in higher ed.
• #alt-academy - community-building and networked scholarly communication around the theme of unconventional or alternative academic careers.

While we’re at it, two videos:

• Taran Killam/Robyn Dance off 
• 8 Hours in Brooklyn

Zack

• Occupy Librarianship: 5 Variations on a Theme

Teresa

• #Occupy : The Tech at the Heart of the Movement-The Atlantic

Julia

• Review of The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam–David Banash
• 10 Social Networking Posts that Sink Careers
• Turn Any Surface into a Touch-Sensitive Instrument with a $20 Microphone
• Early 1900s in Color–photos
• MIT Open Courseware

Ashley

• Is The Internet Awake? – Edlundart.com
• Future of Bookstores – Chicago Tonight
• Detroit Libraries Closing: Protesters Stage Sit-In at Lincoln Branch – Huffpost Detroit

Chris

• Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research – The Atlantic
• The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities – Christine Borgman
• The Lifecycle of a Dataset – MIT
• Recommendations for Independent Scholarly Publication of Data Sets – Jonathan Rees

Joanna

• Pearl Harbor Iconic Photo Found not to be from Dec-7 - msnbc.com (“Librarians are Amazing”)
• What “Read it Later” Data Might Mean - Nieman Journalism Lab
• A Girl You should date (the ones who read) - Nona Merah
• 7 Important Digital Humanities Projects - Maria Popova of Brain Pickings
• Todays-digital-documents-are-tomorrows-dinosaurs (on US Gov’t Digitization initiative) – The Washington Times
• Which e-books Are Most Borrowed from Libraries and Why
• (for the Brits out there and yes, this is technically out of “Fall” but it was before this semester started) The Demise of the Public Library (including one opened by Mark Twain) – NY Times / International Herald Tribune

Best of Semester One

Hi,

Since we are all still students, or very VERY early career LIS pros, this time of year is especially full of things to do. That said, you’ll see new content slow down here, for at least the next week or two. We’ll be planning the summer semester’s worth of writing, recruiting new Editors/contributors, and generally resting after an amazing kick-off semester this Spring.

To keep you busy we’ve compiled some reading lists you can return to over the next few weeks and get caught up on. Think of it as HackLibSchool 101.

Our Top 10 Posts (by hits):

• Job Tips for Future/Recent Grads
• Speak up! Advocating for the UW iSchool
• Non-Traditional Roles in LIS
• Volunteering in LIS – not what you expect
• Redefining Information Literacy for the Networked World
• How I Hacked Library School – WEB APPS!
• Twitter in Library School
• Peer Review in Library School: Helpful or Headache?
• [non]LIS Blogs to Follow
• The Road to ALA ’11: LIS Student Tips and Tricks

Top Post per Editor:

• Diversity in LIS – From My Perspective – Micah Vandegrift
• So, Why Do You Want a PhD? – Julia Skinner
• Someone To Look Up To – Finding Your Library Hero – Zack Frasier
• Non-Traditional Roles in LIS – Nicole Fonsh
• The Name Game – Heidi Kittleson
• From Print to Digital – The Future of the Book – Annie Pho
• Don’t Like Your Curriculum? Change it! – Britt Foster
• So You Want to Be a Special Librarian? – Lauren Dodd

Best Comment Conversations:

• What is there to argue about in Library Science? Well, how about everything!
• Online Presence, a.k.a. You 2.0
• Big Tent Library School

Catch Up on Our Series’:

Experiencing LIS – Posts about getting experience and/or what the experience of Library School is like.

LIS Blogs to Follow – Self explanatory.

To-Read Tuesday – Our (and your) picks for things to read, that we’re reading, or would like to read someday!

Declassified – Comparing curriculum and courses between two schools

TMI – (Two Minute Insights). Shortcasts where we post one question to a leader in the field and they have two minutes to respond.

Most Tweeted Article:

You’re Invited to #libchat

Weirdest Search Terms That Led Someone to Our Blog:

• “Fun things to mod or hack”
• “how to hack in to a university library computer”
• “katie long island library science masters -crook”
• “middle aged white man needs to change careers”
• “everything was better back when everything was worse cartoon”
• “hack librayr school”
• “what is a library”

Recommended by Your Humble Editors:

Micah

• Cohen, Dan. (March 1, 2011). What Scholars Want From a Digital Public Library of America
• Watters, Audrey. (February 28, 2011). Do E-book Users Need a Bill of Rights? (Librarians Think So.)
• Howard, Alex. (April 1, 2011). Congress Weighs Deep Cuts to Funding for Federal Open Government Platforms
• Reside, Doug. (April 4, 2011). What is a Digital Curator? (NYPL’s first digital curator)
• Holmes, Linda. (April 11, 2011). The Library Card as a Pop Culture Fiend’s Ticket to Geek Paradise
• Oswalt, Patton. (December 27, 2010). Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.
• Serrota, Maggie. (February 16, 2011). Academia, Girl-Style Now: NYU’s riot grrrl archives finally opens.

Zack

Barbakoff, Audrey , and Ferrari, Ahniwa (March 25th, 2011) – Filter This!

Annie

• Goodman, Amanda. (April 13, 2011). How I Job Search
• Potter, Ned. (Oct. 06, 2010). You want to work in libraries? Essential Careers Advice for New Professionals
• Rasmus, Daniel W. (March 31, 2011). 10 Lessons from Angry Birds That Can Make You a Better CIO
• Stephens, Michael. (Feb 15, 2011). Seek a Challenge | Office Hours
• Woodworth, Andy. (Feb. 10, 2011). Open Thread Thursday: Library School

Julia

• Dworak, Melody (Mar. 5, 2011) Diversity in LIS.
• In the Library with the Lead Pipe (Sept. 15, 2010) On Upward Mobility in Librarianship.
• Litwin, Rory (Feb. 26, 2011). Some Objections to Our Use of Library Statistics.
• Sellie, Alycia. (Mar. 5, 2011) Librarians Against DRM and This Post Will Self-Destruct After 26 Views.
• Smalter Hall, Rachel (Mar. 23, 2011) Librarians Taking Charge.

Nicole

• Abrams, Ingrid. (Apr. 9, 2011) The Agony and the Advocacy/The Advocacy and the Apathy.
• Kaszynski, Steven V. (Apr. 07, 2011) Exit the Echo Chamber.
• King, David Lee (Feb. 4, 2011) 10 Tips to Do Presentations Like Me.
• Newman, Bobbie (Apr. 18, 2011) My Favorite Tools in 10 Installments.
• West, Jessamyn (Mar. 22, 2011) Offline America.

Britt

• Abram, Steven (January 5, 2011) Innovation Questions
• Garbor, Marjorie, and David L. Ulin (April 6, 2011) The Use and Abuse of Literature
• Lankes, Dave (March 29, 2011) Journalism and Librarianship, AKA, The participatory, assertive, subversive, radically positive librarian via The Unquiet Librarian
• Pullman, Philip (January 28, 2011) Market Fanatics Will Kill What Makes Our Libraries Precious
• Woodworth, Andy (March 27, 2011) SunSpec: The Lending Culture

Lauren

• Dority, Kim (April 10, 2011) What Else Can You Do With Your LIS Skills? Identifying Job Possibilities.
• Deards, Kiyomi (April 14, 2011) Tales from the Tenure Track: Vol. I.I.
• Hardenbrook, Joe (April 20, 2011) Cover Letters, Resumes, and Interviews, Oh My!
• Kaddell, Marie, Ed. (June 3, 2010) Best Practices for Government Libraries 2010: The New Face of Value.