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Librarian, or museologist?
Prepared by L Ruus,
University of Toronto Data Library Service
For the OLITA session: Librarians and technology
OLA Superconference, 22/01/99
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A copy of this presentation can be accessed at:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~laine/ola99.ppt
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Overview
• Introduction
• The problem as I see it
• Attitude is everything
• Practicalities
• Planning for the future
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Introduction:
• Serendipity: “the faculty of making happy & unexpected discoveries by accident”
• And the blame goes to:– my mother– Pierre Trudeau– Stein Rokkan– Basil Stuart-Stubbs
• Morale: volunteering isn’t always bad
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The problem as I see it:
• lack not of change but of anything new:– a career path with nothing new– a job with little/nothing new
• lack of interest/challenge– a job containing little/no interest
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Attitude is everything
• Recognize what you don’t know– and resolve to change that lack
• It’s ok to say “I don’t know” if you also say “ but I will find out and let you know”– and do so
• Put responsibility for CE where it belongs– not on BB
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Practicalities
• Identify a niche– generalists vs specialists– rare skill sets– e.g. statistics, GIS, management– it has to be of interest to you
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Practicalities (2)
• Train yourself:– adult ed courses at universities, colleges,
community centres, the ‘Y’, etc.– WWW-based courses (CAI, distance learning):
free or for fee– WWW-based textbooks, FAQs, etc.– lurking on listservs, Usenet news groups
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Adult ed courses at universities, e.g..
• Sheridan College. Continuing Education
http://www.sheridanc.on.ca/learning/courses.html
• University of Toronto. FIS
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/conted/
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Finding WWW-based courses
• Magellan Home > Education > Continuing Education
http://magellan.excite.com/education/continuing_education
• Yahoo : Education : Distance learning
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Distance_Learning/• World Lecture Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
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WWW-based textbooks, FAQs, etc.
• Electronic statistics textbook./ StatSoft Inc. 1998
http://www.statsoftinc.com/textbook/stathome.html • HyperStat online: an introductory-level
hypertext statistics book
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/hyperstat/index.html • Statistics: the study of stability in variation
[textbook]./ De Leeuw, Jan
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/textbook/
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FAQs etc.
• List of Usenet FAQs
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html
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Identifying listservs, Usenet news groups, etc.
• Liszt
http://www.liszt.com/
• Tile.net/lists
http://www.liszt.com/
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Practicalities (3)
• Self-motivation– e.g.: what tool would make your life easier?
• find it?
• make it?
• share it!
– Hint: don’t do what a machine can do better.
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Planning for today
• focused WWW cruising
• focused lurking
• conferences, seminars, etc.
• active participation in listservs, etc.
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Planning for the future
• Plan for obsolescence