Selinda Adelle Berg is Librarian and Heidi LM Jacobs is Information Literacy Librarian in Leddy Library at University of Windsor; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]; Dayna Cornwall is at Windsor Public Library, e-mail: [email protected]. © 2013 Selinda Adelle Berg, Heidi LM Jacobs, and Dayna Cornwall, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by...

THISARTICLE REVIEWS THE BRIEF HISTORY OF Chinese Americans in the United States and their contributions to librarianship. Despite the hardships and challenges they faced, Chinese American librarians made great contributions to the building of East Asian libraries, to the cataloging of East Asian and Chinese collections, and to the development of library automation. They have advanced informatio...

Distance education has presented several new challenges to information facilitators. Providing quality distance library services in small states has it own unique set of issues, which are as yet unreported in the literature. This paper examines the concept of small states and how this impacts on providing distance librarianship to persons resident in such states. Also examined are strategies th...

A career in librarianship may start a library science master’s program, but the path to and/or between opportunities builds and shifts with time. This commentary discusses paths followed by two librarians who each attended same program are currently both health at institution. While these similarities exist, unique journeys have helped shape their approaches current jobs, roles within careers, ...

Examining international teacher librarianship enables school library researchers and practitioners to continue uncovering the institutional factors that impact librarianship; further strengthening case for cross-cultural partnerships. In 2015, conducted an ethnography confirmatory study of in Moscow, Russia. Emergent themes culled from previous research confirmed this new were: collaboration, l...

The pandemic and resulting shift to remote work stressed the importance of distance library services. As librarians explored different modes engagement, embedded librarianship became increasingly important but also more complicated than before. While there is a wealth literature on librarianship, few authors agree how define it or discuss its specific challenges during pandemic. This paper will...