Virtually every “serious” place where professional astronomy is done has a librarian, even if shared with the physics or math department. Since its creation in 1994 of Departamento de Astronomı́a (DA) of Universidad de Guanajuato (UG) it was neither provided with a librarian, nor with proper space for its holdings, nor with a budget allowing institutional journal subscriptions. I describe my exp...

Librarian identity’ is a contested arena, seemingly caught up in a values-war between traditional principles of ‘citizenship’ and late 20th century’s shift to a democracy of consumerists. New professionals may be wary of associating with established systems of their own professional hierarchies when professional associations may be perceived as not having paid enough attention to how this shift...

This study examined the perceptions of 118 undergraduate information science students enrolled in three different higher education programs in Israel. The classical roles traditionally performed in libraries are still perceived as tasks of the librarian. Tasks related to information itself, such as information retrieval (building, operating, and managing Web sites), information filtering, and m...

Once upon a time there was an academic librarian at the University of Colorado who led a quiet librarian life until the day he noticed predators in the midst of scholarly publishing. Jeffrey Beall discovered, studied, revealed, and blogged about what he would eventually name Predatory Publishing. His Web site, Scholarly Open Access (http:// scholarlyoa.com), is an increasingly important source ...