Presentation to staff at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on librarianship in the US.

1. Sharing the Library experience
abroad
Experiencing librarianship

2. Salem State University
Salem, Massachusetts

3. Library Education
 Librarians Expected to have MLS (Masters in
Library Science)
 Good or Bad?

4. Subject Masters Degree
 Subject Masters becoming requirement
 Professional Development activities necessary

5. Humanities Librarian: Liaison
 Art
 Foreign Languages
 Music
 Philosophy
 Theatre/Speech Communication

6. What is Liaison?
 Work with departments to Teach Information
Literacy
 Collection Development
 Specialized Reference for Classes

7. Collection Development

9. Shared
Collections
through a
Consortium

10. WorldCat

11. Digital Development
Still Learning
about Digital
Books
 Making Collection Development
Difficult
 Order digital copy? Or print copy?

12. Information Literacy?
Working with classes that come to the library
How to find material for research (paper)
New ways to engage students on how to use the
library

14. Ethics of Information: Beyond
Databases
 How does Google Work?
 What is plagiarism?
 What is visual literacy?
 What to know about managing image online

15. Visual Literacy

16. Internet vs. Databases
Nothing Really Visible
• Invisible Web
– Databases, subscription Based
• Visible Web
– On the Internet

18. Mediating the Two
• Working with new, updated collections
• Finding reliable resources and using them
ethically online
– Challenges of music, artworks, video, articles

19. Some New Items
 Films on Demand
 Thousands of streaming videos on a wide variety of
academic topics.
 Oxford Digital Collections
 Theater Full-Text
 Thousands of Plays Available in Full-Text

20. Oxford Online

21. Notable Collections
 Naxos Music
 Full Streaming of Music Albums
 ArtSTOR
 Millions of High Quality Images
 Films on Demand
 Thousands of streaming videos on a wide variety of
academic topics.

22. Naxos

23. ArtSTOR

24. Films on Demand

25. RefWorks
An online
research
manage-
ment, writing
and
collaboration
tool

26. LibGuides

27. Libguides: Example

28. Online Tutorials

29. Mobile Technology

30. Mobile Library
 Using iPads, iPhones, Androids and e-readers:
Kindle, Nook for books

31. OverDrive
Digital
Books
available
through
consortium

32. Reference Desk
 Old Library = Staffed the Reference Desk
 Liaison Model = Moved Away from Reference
Desk
 New Library = No Reference Desk

33. The “Old” Library

34. Interim Library

35. Interim

36. New Library and Learning
Commons

37. Library and Learning Commons?
 Library as Place
 Enhance Social Interaction
 Cross Disciplinary Learning