CogSci Librarian

I am catching up on my blogs and just read Swiss Army Librarian's Sept. 29 post “ Cloud of Survey Comments from Library Patrons .” His l...

My thoughts on User Services, or providing services to patrons in an academic library are many ... and I've just discussed them with st...

A recent Library Hacks blog post at Duke's Perkins Library, Ever wonder what you can ask a reference librarian? prompted me to publici...

The librarians at UT Arlington are at it again -- if I were still teaching reference, I'd show this video to start a discussion of the r...

I'm teaching reference at Simmons again in the spring, and I am pulling together my reading list. (see the Fall 2007 reading list ). Tha...

I'm thrilled to link to my article on The Reference Interview: Theories and Practice , recently published by Library Philosophy and Prac...

A colleague (hi Terry!) asked me to speak on a panel in his class about the future of reference. I'm a poor prognosticator (tho' I ...

My thoughts on this topic are evolving, and there are so many related blog posts about it, that I've created a separate post for my link...

This is an informal poll, for the LIS crowd. If you were stranded on a desert isle, and you were lucky enough to continue doing reference fo...

Dodie Gaudet posts over at the Our Future blog about the terrific-ness of school librarians and is filled with Respect and Admiration for t...

Interesting article in this week's The New Yorker about how doctors think / make decisions. What's the Trouble , a medical dispatc...

Ah, the Statistical Abstract of the United States. 2007 edition is out, and the Times has a story about it: Who Americans Are and What They...

Carol Tenopir’s March 1 column in Library Journal describes research by Marie Radford Lynn Silipigni Connaway into the social dynamics ...

These two blogs are great for prospective reference librarians – they tell what reference library work is really like, as opposed to source...

Interesting article in the May 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology on linguistics ...