Lisa Chen is a second term MLIS student. Her interests are in special and academic libraries. She also enjoys playing pokemon, reading, writing and watching anime in her free time. You can read about her journey and thoughts on librarianship.

Why libraries still need books on shelves. I grew up in libraries. Summer days were spent blissfully in the mobile library that came to my neighborhood every week. So when I heard about an article that advocated retaining the stacks in a campus library in lieu of moving them offsite, I was intrigued.

While I was still enrolled at Western this summer, completing Collection Development with Cameron Hoffman which I adored, incidentally I was also working. And a lot of tightly-plotte.

A while back, I had an interview for a Librarian I position at one of my local libraries. The interview started off well enough, but I was asked some pretty unexpected questions. Continue reading Cultural Fit and Bias. Cultural Fit and Bias Reblog.

Participant Experiences of MOOC Noncompletion and Librarianship Recruitment. Researchers are seeking participants aged 18 or over, who have enrolled in at least one MOOC, for which they did not complete all course requirements. You would be asked to participate in one interview session, either by phone or Skype, lasting between 30 minutes and 1 hour.