YouTube's accessibility, ease of use, and depth of content are strong lures for music students. But do music teaching faculty and librarians encourage this and do they use it in their own research, teaching, and work? This study surveyed over 9,000 music faculty and over 300 music librarians in the United States. It discovered that faculty rank is at times a factor in faculty use of YouTube for...

With biomedical information widely accessible from anywhere at any time, health sciences libraries have become less centralized, and they are challenged to stay relevant and vital to the mission and strategic goals of their home institution. One solution is to embed librarians at strategic points in health professions' education, research, and patient care. This article discusses a proposed fiv...

School librarians play a pivotal role in facilitating learning of all subjects in primary and secondary schools in the United States, but their potential contributions to science have not been explored. In this paper, we show how school librarian practices can directly enhance aspects of science education by providing concrete examples from a study where we engaged school librarians to co-desig...

This article intends to discuss Information Technology diploma programs as an alternate means of educating systems librarians and preparing them for the new challenges faced by library systems offices. The first section outlines my own experience marrying an MLIS with a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology as a means of moving into systems librarianship. The second discusses the applicati...

The library and information profession in Australia, and indeed throughout the world, is rapidly aging. In the United States it was recently predicted that, by 2017, some 68 percent of today’s librarians will have retired (Lynch, 2002). The demographics of library and information professionals in Australia mirrors this situation, where 52 percent of qualified librarians are over the age of 45, ...

In the real world of library service, librarians have to keep up with change by answering specific questions. They need training because technology, the character of populations, and local economics all are changing. Recognizing that technology is a catalyst of change, the author shows how librarians can and do work to help libraries harness the power of technology to navigate the changing read...

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History tells the stories of queer punk, primarily in North America from 1969 1999, by constructing narrative movement’s media (zines, records, and films), personalities, politics, activism. The book is snapshot voices many perspectives across this period imagery are as graphic, explicit, colorful you might expect. Queercore springs hours interviews ...

What, if any, are the benefits of having librarians attend lectures and seminars? In the midst of a start-up program, the librarians at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar were challenged to test new models of active participation while demonstrating positive outcomes. This paper describes the setting, methods, and outcomes associated with having librarians attend courses as active membe...

This article describes how librarians created a Wikipedia article on cultural competence in health care to support the medical school's curriculum. Wikipedia, often considered not as reliable as scholarly articles, continues to be popular. Rutgers librarians conducted a Wikipedia project to improve its content to benefit students. The importance of cultural competency in health care is widely r...