Useful Articles for Librarians

I'm receiving everyday e-mails with links to useful blog posts, reports. I don't have any more time to read, to bookmark them or just save. So today I just decided to post on the blog a few that of interest and I will remember at a later stage, where to find and read:

• Embedded Librarianship: new research is published by David Shumaker 
• LILAC (Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference) 2011 Presentations
• Reality-based Librarianship for Passionate Librarians
• Standards for Libraries in HE revised
• Research Supervisors and Information Literacy
• Student Induction, Libraries, Prezi, and Interactive Maps (blog post, practical examples)
• Latest Project Information Literacy Report Now Available (Oct 2011 report)
• Know Thine Audience. At Sustainable Scholarship Conference, academic librarians and publishers discuss why understanding readers is more essential than ever in the digital age.
• Marketing Academic Libraries, by Ned Potter.
• Guide to Reference Services
• Google Scholar Citation open to all
• Interview with Steven Bell — Keeping Up With the Things That Matter for Academic Libraries

Pavlinka Kovatcheva, UJ Faculty Librarian: Sciences
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Internet Librarian International 2011 Conference

Recently I attended the Internet Librarian International Conference in London, 26-28 October 2011. I also presented on the 28th October in C204: New Skills for the New Normal.

• New Roles & Skills for the New Normal: the multi-skilling academic librarian in action.

The presentation focuses on how the role of the academic librarians changes from traditional, to technological & social, to mobile and embedded librarian. To adapt to the changing environment the librarians need to adapt and develop new skills and play new roles. I'm providing some practical examples from my experiences.

Overall the ILI 2011 was a very successful and enlighting conference.

If you want to learn more about the ILI topics, discussions, links to presentations, etc. these are some useful blog posts, tweets, slide share presentations, statistics, etc.:

• ILI 2011 official presentations website


• The Library is everywhere: some key themes that emerged at ILI 2011 (2 pages)


• Technology Trends to watch (Brian Kelly)


• Thoughts from the ILI 2011 (blog post by Gary Green)


• Closing Panel: The new normal needs you (blog post by Emma Cragg)


• ILI 2011 presentations, blogs, etc. by scoop.it!


• ILI 2011: Lanyrd.com (The social conference directory)


• Networking at ILI 2011


• #ILI2011 Twitter archive (view what we talked & shared on Twitter in regard to ILI 2011)


• Visualising the ILI 2011: Twitter archive


• Librarians: agents of Social change (SLA Europe blog post)


• Productivity for Librarians (blog post by Jo Alcock)


• Evidence base blog post


• Internet Librarian International: Day 1; Day 2 (blog posts by Karen)


• Future Ready panel discussion at SLA Europe event, 26 Oct 2011


• Being Future ready in uncertain times (SLA blog)


• Academics do not have full understanding of Open Access

Those who did not attended the ILI 2011 Conference can have a good grasp of what was discussed, emerging trends, practical tips and new networking possibilities

Pavlinka Kovatcheva (pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za)