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minilibrarian · 1 year

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Been super interested in reading more about how more established librarians view the future of our work and spaces.

~Including a picture from working at the public library the other day, which I should do more often~

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jstor · 6 months

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Searching best practices on JSTOR

Hi Tumblr researchers,

As promised, we're going to dive into some best practices for searching on JSTOR. This'll be a long one!

The first thing to note is that JSTOR is not Google, so searches should not be conducted in the same way.

More on that in this video:

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Basic Search on JSTOR

To search for exact phrases, enclose the words within quotation marks, like "to be or not to be".

To construct a more effective search, utilize Boolean operators, such as "tea trade" AND china.

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Advanced Searching on JSTOR

Utilize the drop-down menus to refine your search parameters, limiting them to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.

Combine search terms using Boolean operators like AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator finds keyword combinations within 5, 10, or 25 words of each other. It applies only when searching for single keyword combinations, such as "cat NEAR 5 dog," but not for phrases like "domesticated cat" NEAR 5 dog.

Utilize the "Narrow by" options to search for articles exclusively, include/exclude book reviews, narrow your search to a specific time frame or language.

To focus your article search on specific disciplines and titles, select the appropriate checkboxes. Please note that discipline searching is currently limited to journal content, excluding ebooks from the search.

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Finding Content You Have Access To

To discover downloadable articles, chapters, and pamphlets for reading, you have the option to narrow down your search to accessible content. Simply navigate to the Advanced Search page and locate the "Select an access type" feature, which offers the following choices:

All Content will show you all of the relevant search results on JSTOR, regardless of whether or not you can access it.

Content I can access will show you content you can download or read online. This will include Early Journal Content and journals/books publishers have made freely available.

Once you've refined your search, simply select an option that aligns with your needs and discover the most relevant items. Additionally, you have the option to further narrow down your search results after conducting an initial search. Look for this option located below the "access type" checkbox, situated at the bottom left-hand side of the page.

Additional resources

For more search recommendations, feel free to explore this page on JSTOR searching. There, you will find information on truncation, wildcards, and proximity, using fields, and metadata hyperlinks.

#happy researching!!!#jstor #research #academic research #academic writing #academia #academic database #searching #higher education #students #colleges #university #learning #teaching #librarians #libraries #Youtube #studyblr #ref

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thebookewyrme · 3 months

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Ok academic tumblr, I need some good reading materials on why “thought crime” isn’t real and why consuming problematic media does not make you a bad person, preferably suitable for someone with religious trauma. I’ve done a little digging and not yet encountered anything that really fits what I’m looking for (aside from predictably, tumblr posts because we have this discussion so often in the fandom sides of tumblr). Preferably without paywalls please, neither I nor my friend can afford them.

Help me Obi Wan Ketumblr!

#academia #academic writing #media consumption #media analysis #morality and media #library #librarians

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hiringlibrarians · 2 years

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We often have tight scheduling for interviews and wasting 10 mins while an applicant gets their microphone to work is problematic

Esther Johnson. Arbor Day Celebration – 1984. Photo by Norden H. (Dan) Cheatham From UC Berkeley Library Digital Collections. This anonymous interview is with someone who hires for a: √ Academic Library Title: User Experience Librarian/Head of Access Services Titles hired include: Library Assistant, Student Assistant, Research & Instruction Librarian, Systems Librarian Who makes hiring…

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#academic librarian #jobhunting #Librarian #librarians #libraries #library careers #library hiring #library interview

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nando161mando · 3 months

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“As librarians, we’re not here to judge, we’re here to help.”

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darkacademianew · 7 months

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Mood

#dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #academia #dark academism #dark academia memes #dark academia movies #dark academia books #library #bookstore #libraries #bookshelves #books #librarians #book blog #book quotes #book recommendations #gardening #pansexual

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0liver-hope · 1 year

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if you love books, save a library!

I hear people on Tumblr talk a lot about the importance of libraries; now’s your chance to help save one!

At Vermont State University is a newly merging Uni in so-called North America, pushing together three previously separate universities: Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, and Vermont Technical College.

Just last week, the new VTSU administration sent out an email to faculty, staff and students announcing that all the libraries at each of the 5 campuses contained within these universities would be moving to an ‘all-digital’ model. Librarians will lose their jobs if this plan goes ahead; in fact, librarians were only informed of this change 11 minutes before the email was sent out.

We have come to understand that this means that all physical material will be removed from the library. They seem to want to do other things with the space, such as set up ‘a coffee or smoothie bar’ and determine ‘what students want’ to do with the space. This plan would go into effect on July 1st, 2023.

The fact is, students want to keep the library as it is. Quiet, and full of stacks and stacks of physical books. The administration cannot claim they are listening to students when we have demonstrated, via hundreds of emails and impassioned testimonies in front of the administration at a forum last week, that we hate this plan and oppose it vehemently. And the faculty and staff are with us, and they too have been speaking out. Not only that, the communities that surround these colleges greatly value having access to a research library, particularly in rural Vermont, and are opposing the plan as well, because, as far as I know, they will completely lose access to these resources if everything goes digital.

The image of the books above are what I just checked out today. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed browsing the stacks, in one case (not pictured above) finding a tiny book of Milton’s poetry inscribed with a reader’s name and the year 1865. So many important and precious books like that one are to be found in our library. Each book I checked out hasn’t been checked out for at least 10 years, and that’s one of the administration’s excuses for taking all our books away: that circulation is down, and that, somehow, it costs money to let books sit on a shelf. As many people have rebutted, though, just because books aren’t being checked out doesn’t mean they aren’t being read within the library and, most importantly, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have value.

Below I will post some links to various local news article on this subject as well as one radio broadcast that will probably be able to articulate this situation better than I can.

I’m just so angry and upset about this. I’ve seen students and faculty alike crying about this situation, and an old lady braver than me telling the administration that maybe they should consider lowering their own salaries before taking away our books. I think everyone here feels powerless, because the administration isn’t backing down, despite all our protests, because ultimately their goal is profit and to make sure that this new ‘equitable’ University makes as much money as possible.

At the Castleton forum, the president of the University said he was ‘deeply humiliated’, by the outrage, by the heckling, the ‘throwing of verbal tomatoes’ as I have taken to calling it, by having his and his fellow’s bullshit exposed and questioned.

Please, please, if you care about books, about libraries, about the problems with big tech and the way it continues to invade all our lives, replacing physical experiences with their more hollow, less engaging counterparts; if you care about the interests of the people triumphing over the interests of capital, about students, about education, then please -- help save our books by spreading the word however and wherever you can, by flooding the inboxes of the capitalists below; tell them how you feel about this decision and its larger implications for books and libraries in general! Not so much to convince them that they’re wrong (they already know that and don’t care), but to make going forward with this plan more of a nuisance and a PR nightmare than cancelling it would be.

I don’t know if anyone will read or see this post, but please if you do and you care, reblog, educate yourself on what’s going on, and take action if you can.

A few disclaimers:

Any specifics I mention pertain primarily to what I, as a student at Castleton University, have either heard via word of mouth or seen with my own eyes. I am not officially speaking on behalf of anyone but myself.

The only exception to all the physical materials being removed from the libraries seem to be the books deemed ‘most used’ and some valuable historical collections. This was not clear from the beginning and not yet fully clear in any further specificity.

please try not to use violent rhetoric - as much as I’m not into policing people’s speech and anger, I don’t want this to backfire and I don’t want them to crackdown harder on us or make a big stink about it if they receive those kinds of messages

Email addresses of administration officials responsible for this decision:

VTSU President Grewal: [email protected]

VTSU Provost Atkins: [email protected]

VSC Chancellor Zdatny [email protected]

VSC Board of Trustees Chair: Eileen “Lynn” Dickinson [email protected]

News articles + broadcast:

https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2023-02-10/vermont-state-university-president-on-move-to-all-digital-libraries-changes-in-athletic-programs

https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/local/castleton-community-protests-vtsu-library-cuts/article_100d9539-c6ca-569e-a9b9-ecd6b3cef0ad.html

https://vtdigger.org/2023/02/08/vermont-state-university-to-close-libraries-downgrade-sports-programs/

http://www.castletonspartan.com/2023/02/12/vtsu-library-plan-sparks-outrage-and-emotion/

#signal boost #save libraries #books #total liberation #my post #anarchism #public services #capitalism #fight back #boost #please help #mutual aid #libraries #libraries are the best #support local libraries #academic libraries #school libraries #librarians #workers rights

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ancientsstudies · 2 years

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library.

ig credit: danielapardor.

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bebagerie · 1 year

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a very shaped mr. conlan

#I like to think being sober and years of friendship w ricky bulked him up a bit #and you cant tell me hes not always a bit of a figure to behold as an educator-academic-barista-librarian #i know hes working on his posture but we all know how that goes #i just had an urge to draw wide pete. i believe in wide pete supremacy #little sticky twig pete in s1 is valid but let him become wide in his health #its getting late i gotta stop talking #the unsleeping city #pete conlan #dimension 20 #my art :)

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mortispoxi · 1 month

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Pratchett trying to shoehorn in a romantic partner for Drumknott at the end of Unseen Academicals is honest very funny in retrospect because the lad shows up two more times before the series concludes and is still romantically unattached which implies that despite Vetinari and Margolotta’s best efforts to play matchmaker something must’ve gone so wildly wrong that it made the two of them not want to engage with each other any further.

So because of this oversight, my headcanon is that when Drumknott and Miss Healstether had their little rendezvous they argued over who had the better filing method which ended in Vetinari and Margolotta having to physically separate and restrain them to keep them from killing each other. It’s the first and only time Vetinari ever had to reprimand Drumknott in his entire career all because he bit Margolotta’s librarian during the altercation. However, deep down he was more than a bit amused watching two mild mannered individuals throw hands over a ring binder so it was more of a halfhearted, “don’t do it again,” kind of scolding.

#discworld #unseen academicals #rufus drumknott #havelock vetinari #lady margolotta #miss healstether #gnu terry pratchett #Drumknott definitely got his ass beat by Healstether but he put up a valiant effort #lots of hair pulling/scratching/roundhouse kicking/biting #miss healstether doing more of the kicking in this instance #Drumknott’s fighting style is more screaming and flailing much to the chagrin of his boss #Vetinari probably ordered some of the dark clerks to start self defense training with Drumknott #meanwhile lady Margolotta is disappointed her librarian beat the snot out of another guy she tried setting her up with #miss healstether has no regrets #mp

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lesbianriverphoenix · 15 days

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anyone remember a month ago when i was going in person for a third round interview for the dream job? i have since gone through TWO more rounds and am supposed to hear back this week but since it's thursday i feel like pure shit and might kms 🥰

#in the fourth round one of the hiring committee members literally said something like. 'haha yes nice to see you again catherine its like #you already work here :)' so ummmmm if i don't get the offer i will be hunting them down specifically #also? FIVE ROUNDS? FOR AN ENTRY LEVEL ACADEMIC LIBRARIAN ROLE? what da hell

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intothestacks · 6 months

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Comic by Tom Gauld

#librarylife #libraryland #school libraries #school librarian #libraries #tom gauld #funny picture #librarianship #librarians #public libraries #academic libraries #lol

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jstor · 2 days

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🎨 📚 Instructors, librarians, and researchers—how do you use Artstor on JSTOR? From enhancing lessons to enriching research, we want to hear your stories about visual learning! Share your thoughts by filling out the Google Form. Let's celebrate the power of visual resources in education and research! 🌟 Image: Costa Rica, Diquís region. Lobster pendant. Cast gold. c. 1000–1500. Part of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

#jstor #artstor #research #instructors #librarians #art history #art #visual resources #academic research #academia #education #higher education

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janeofthornfield · 9 months

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"𝖳𝗁𝖾𝗒 𝗍𝖺𝗅𝗄 𝗍𝗈 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆𝗌𝖾𝗅𝗏𝖾𝗌 𝗈𝗎𝗍 𝗅𝗈𝗎𝖽; 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗐𝗈𝗋𝗅𝖽 𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗁𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗌 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆." —𝖲𝗁𝖺𝗐, 𝖡𝖾𝗋𝗇𝖺𝗋𝖽. 𝖢𝖺𝗇𝖽𝗂𝖽𝖺.

all pics are mine

ig: coffeeyre

#chaotic academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #chaotic academic aesthetic #dark academia vibes #dark academism #classic academia #academia aesthetic #bookworm #librarians

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trans-cuchulainn · 2 months

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Do you know anywhere I can read about parchment practices of the middle ages?

raymond clemens + timothy graham's introduction to manuscript studies starts with a section about writing supports that covers parchment manufacture and other writing surfaces before going on to talk more about how manuscripts and books were constructed and assembled

the irish hand by t. o'neill is a nice introduction to irish manuscripts but to be honest it's more focused on specific books rather than their production and on writing systems more widely. it's a nice one for seeing glimpses of marginalia and notes written inside books though

here's a blog post about decorating flaws in parchment to make them part of the page. the BL has a number of posts on their conservation blog about working with medieval parchment and the various preservation challenges it can pose. this is however mostly looking at them from a modern conservation perspective rather than a medieval creative perspective

here's a useful overview of parchment with close-up pictures. the other pages on this site look like a good place to start with learning about making and using manuscripts in general.

unfortunately this is primarily not a topic i learned from books/written sources so my reading recommendations are a bit thin on the ground

#i'm a triple threat of former calligrapher former librarian and former academic medievalist lmao i've learned shit from practice #probably the only topic where my knowledge significantly outweighs my ability to give book recommendations ngl #answered #dagmarsverker #parchment problems

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sarasade · 6 months

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The local librarian when they see the same fujoshi mf (me) filling out acquisition proposals for BL non-fiction lit once again.

#I love you libraries and librarians<3 #they actually had Erica Friedman's yuri book but nothing on BL #They actually got Queer Transfigurations after this! yay 'cause academic books are expensive AF #they could have more lit on yuri too hmm (thinking thinking)#sarasade text #shitpost

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