Starting a Circulating Board Game Collection: Things to Consider
There’s been a lot of buzz in the past few years about libraries starting or refreshing circulating board game collections for their patrons. (Check out a previous HLS post from […]
10 Ideas for Building Libraries of Things
Libraries have long claimed that they’re not just warehouses for books, but many have been increasing their circulating collections of non-traditional library materials–otherwise known as “Library of Things”—in the past […]
The Hats We Wear
The capstone course of my dual degree in Children’s Literature and Library and Information Sciences is on “positionality.” Half the the students in the class been in the dual degree […]
Board Games in the Library
Sometimes, you just need a game night. Last week, my boyfriend and I had a game night with a friend (who just finished her MLIS!!) and her husband. My friend […]
[Series] So What Do You Do? Historical Collection Evaluation
This post is part of a new series called “So What Do You Do?” in which LIS students talk about their experiences as interns. We want to showcase the wide range of things people are doing in the world of library and information science. Tell us a bit about yourself. […]
The Diverse Knowledge of Librarians
In This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, Marilyn Johnson says that she first became interested in writing about librarians while researching a book about obituaries. She noticed that librarians always had the most interesting obituaries she read, ranging from a librarian who sailed the […]
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