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Librarian, or museologist?

Librarian, or museologist?. Prepared by L Ruus, University of Toronto Data Library Service For the OLITA session: Librarians and technology OLA Superconference, 22/01/99. A copy of this presentation can be accessed at:. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~laine/ola99.ppt. Overview.

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Librarian, or museologist?

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  1. Librarian, or museologist? Prepared by L Ruus, University of Toronto Data Library Service For the OLITA session: Librarians and technology OLA Superconference, 22/01/99

  2. A copy of this presentation can be accessed at: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~laine/ola99.ppt

  3. Overview • Introduction • The problem as I see it • Attitude is everything • Practicalities • Planning for the future

  4. Introduction: • Serendipity: “the faculty of making happy & unexpected discoveries by accident” • And the blame goes to: • my mother • Pierre Trudeau • Stein Rokkan • Basil Stuart-Stubbs • Morale: volunteering isn’t always bad

  5. The problem as I see it: • lack not of change but of anything new: • a career path with nothing new • a job with little/nothing new • lack of interest/challenge • a job containing little/no interest

  6. Attitude is everything • Recognize what you don’t know • and resolve to change that lack • It’s ok to say “I don’t know” if you also say “ but I will find out and let you know” • and do so • Put responsibility for CE where it belongs • not on BB

  7. Practicalities • Identify a niche • generalists vs specialists • rare skill sets • e.g. statistics, GIS, management • it has to be of interest to you

  8. Practicalities (2) • Train yourself: • adult ed courses at universities, colleges, community centres, the ‘Y’, etc. • WWW-based courses (CAI, distance learning): free or for fee • WWW-based textbooks, FAQs, etc. • lurking on listservs, Usenet news groups

  9. Adult ed courses at universities, e.g.. • Sheridan College. Continuing Education http://www.sheridanc.on.ca/learning/courses.html • University of Toronto. FIS http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/conted/

  10. Finding WWW-based courses • Magellan Home > Education > Continuing Education http://magellan.excite.com/education/continuing_education • Yahoo : Education : Distance learning http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Distance_Learning/ • World Lecture Hall http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

  11. WWW-based textbooks, FAQs, etc. • Electronic statistics textbook./ StatSoft Inc. 1998 http://www.statsoftinc.com/textbook/stathome.html • HyperStat online: an introductory-level hypertext statistics book http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/hyperstat/index.html • Statistics: the study of stability in variation [textbook]./ De Leeuw, Jan http://www.stat.ucla.edu/textbook/

  12. FAQs etc. • List of Usenet FAQs http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html

  13. Identifying listservs, Usenet news groups, etc. • Liszt http://www.liszt.com/ • Tile.net/lists http://www.liszt.com/

  14. Practicalities (3) • Self-motivation • e.g.: what tool would make your life easier? • find it? • make it? • share it! • Hint: don’t do what a machine can do better.

  15. Planning for today • focused WWW cruising • focused lurking • conferences, seminars, etc. • active participation in listservs, etc.

  16. Planning for the future • Plan for obsolescence

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