Comments on: C’est ne pas une Bibliotheque

By: Un certain Plume

Un certain Plume — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:03:09 +0000

The title of this post annoys me.

Why did you, the Annoyed Librarian, annoyed when others make mistakes like this, not do this right? Radieux already told you, so just change it now.

Maybe you wanted to show how much you know about art and hinted at the classic ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’ by Margritte. Alas.

Keep up the good work. Regards. P.

By: Kaylin Boehme

Kaylin Boehme — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:43:12 +0000

I think whether students and educators think of the library as outdated or not, the majority of work is being done online. I know some people who didn’t enter the library for their entire undergraduate degree until it came time to write their capstone paper.

If the library is incorporated with other services the students are interested in and is located in a place they frequent, at least the university has a driving chance that they will wander in there now and then!

By: Librarian1

Librarian1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:44:57 +0000

Thanks for the laughs! This was hilarious! And insightful, as always.

By: Goucher-foe

Goucher-foe — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:13:41 +0000

“U.S. News and World Report ranked Goucher college #111 in its annual rankings of national liberal arts colleges, down from #93 a year ago.”

Nice work, Dean Peterson. Maybe next year you’ll be down to #150.

By: NotMarianTheLibrarian

NotMarianTheLibrarian — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:28:26 +0000

Well, I Like Books, it was an administrator type who thought faculty and staff should be muzzled. A notable idiot here and roundly ignored.

By: Cincinnati NAMjA

Cincinnati NAMjA — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:16:11 +0000

Did they ever hear the old addage, “If you build a library, they will come”?.

By: Post Postmodern Librarian

Post Postmodern Librarian — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:15:43 +0000

I am sure we all get the feeling that something is going terribly wrong. I think the scary thing about this whole mess is we know the school is not going to support the library. my biggest fear still is what happens when the google generation becomes the professors, administrators and city managers. This is one libraries will be doomed.

By: I Like Books

I Like Books — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:43:05 +0000

No freedom of speech for fear of offending a student? Are they the same people who give everyone A’s for fear of making a student feel bad?

I started using the scholarly journals as an undergraduate physics student. My thermal physics text had a good number of homework problems taken from the literature, and provided references. And it’s quite a difficult subject, so I was happy to look up whatever help I could find. In retrospect, the author had a wonderful tactic.

By: Poisson Radieux

Poisson Radieux — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:01:57 +0000

Hello AL,

Thanks for your blog. I enjoy it for a really long time.

However, as a French native speaker, I would object to
“C’est ne pas une bibliothèque”
and would suggest the correct sentence
“Ce n’est pas une bibliothèque”.

Regards,

By: NotMariantheLibrarian

NotMariantheLibrarian — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:36:07 +0000

At least here faculty got fed up with shoddy research. More and more provide explicit guidelines as to what can or cannot be used in a paper. And some (even those without tenure) are giving failing grades to the papers of little snots who think they can ignore the guidelines. They’ve come down hard on plagiarism, too, and they often ask library staff to help track down the students’ sources.

If your faculty aren’t backing the library and its staff, your library may well become an “Athenaeum.” Get out there and round up some faculty support – it’s not as hard as you think. Many cannot abide the administrative types and their stupidity. We actually had one speak out in a faculty forum about freedom of speech – we shouldn’t have it because we might inadvertently offend a student.