Best of Fall Semester 2011

By Christopher Eaker on January 31, 2012 • ( 5 Comments )

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

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