Library Literature/Books in Print competency

Library Literature/Books in Print Competency

Topic of Interest: archiving in academic librarianship

“naïve” question: What kind of information is available about archiving in academic librarianship, as this is the field I would like to work in someday?

I have a history background and would love to combine my two areas of study (history and librarianship) into a job, which means working in archiving in a special collections or university library.

Facets	Librarianship	Academic	Archives
My initial search terms	Library, librarian	School, university	Archives
Thesaurus	Libraries Library Service	Academic libraries	Archives

Boolean Logic statement (libraries or library service) and (academic libraries) and (archives)

Library Literature Database

SS1

1. Search Statement – Boolean logic statement
2. Results 268 records
3. Notes – there are too many results, using the “narrow by subject” search feature I narrow my results by electronic data archives/conservation restoration

SS2

1. Search statement – narrowed search results
2. Results 33 records
3. Notes – I look to see how many of these relate to what I am looking for, since my question is very generalized. I find an article I am interested in that explores the “significance” of what goes into preserved collections. It is titled “Building Collections for All Time: The Issue of Significance”

Books in print

There is no thesaurus tool in this database so I decided to use the original facets to begin my searching.

SS1

1. Search Statement( Subject-all) – archiving and academic and librarianship
2. Results 0 records
3. Notes - the words may be the problem here, I decide to use a variation of archiving and librarianship in order to see if my topic is even going to be in this database

SS2

1. Search Statement (subject - all)– archives and library
2. Results 151 records
3. Notes – this is too many records, I’d like to keep the number under 100, I decide to add a word from last weeks searching in order to see if this database will use similar search terms as the other

SS3

1. Search Statement (subject-all) – archives and library and collections
2. Results 7 records
3. Notes – this is a great number and I find a book I’m interested in from these results. It is a listing of articles about archiving and manuscript collections entitled “Articles Describing Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography”

I felt like I was able to find information easier for this competency, however I didn't feel that these databases held a lot of information for my topic of interest, last week I got thousands of results compared with this week where I got hundreds.

Tagging and Indexing competency

I searched librarything.com tags for academic and archives and the best option I found was Preservation: Issues and Planning by Paul N Banks and Roberta Pilette. According to the product description on amazon.com it is "A reference guide covering the repair, maintenance and preservation of library or archive collections, providing an analysis of how to plan for and ensure the long-term health of an institution's collection in this digital age." (amazon.com, 2010) The tags for this item are: 439 [Library] academic ALA American Library Association archival preservation archival science archives archives and preservation archivist at_home book conservation and preservation book studies books brittle books conservationcybulski disaster relief documentation documents essays grad school information science librarianship librarieslibrary library & information science library and archival preservat library and information science library materials - conservation and retoration - planning library preservation library resources library school library science LIS LIS 439manuscripts maryland MLIS MSLS non-fiction Northumbria Library Onuf own photographpreservation preservation. archives. archiving. library. historic assets. digitization. read read in 2006 read in 2009records reference restoration shelf 4 SU09 textbook textbooks texts theory work work reading

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worldcat and eric competency and rss

Eric/Worldcat Competency

Topic of Interest: archiving and history

“naïve” question: What kind of information is available about archiving in academic librarianship, as this is the field I would like to work in someday?

I have a history background and would love to combine my two areas of study (history and librarianship) into a job, which means working in archiving in a special collections or university library.

Facets	librarianship	academic	archives
My initial search terms	Library, librarian	School, university	archives
Thesaurus	Library science Library Research Library education	Academic libraries Archives College libraries	Library collections Records Management

Boolean Logic statement (library science or library research or library education) and (academic libraries or archives or college libraries) and (library collections or records management)

Eric Database

1. Search Statement – Boolean logic statement
2. Results 1,776 records
3. Notes – there are too many results, using a promising article as a jumping off point I refine my search to include just three of the search terms

1. Search statement – archives, academic libraries, library collections
2. Results 56 records
3. Notes – these results are actually pretty good, but they can still be narrowed further, I chose 4 articles and looked at their headings to refine my search.

1. Search statement – archives, academic libraries, history
2. Results 24 records
3. Notes – I found several articles that I liked, the best one was this: "Heritage through Oral History and Archival Images"

It’s the kind of project that I am looking to work on once I am finished with school.

Worldcat

1. Search Statement – Boolean search terms
2. Results 170 records in English
3. Notes - the results need to be narrowed, I looked at a few of the articles and chose new search terms based on them

1. Search Statement – archives, academic library, collections
2. Results 107 records in English
3. Notes – there are a lot of web results, I looked through to try and refine my search

1. Search Statement – archives, academic library, library collections
2. Results 78 records in English
3. Notes – this is a more manageable number, there are still a lot of web results, this is the one I like the best: "University of Huddersfield Library: Archives and Special Collections: Sources in Women's History"

Not only is this about archives, it also has to do with women’s history (which my M.A. is in) and it is located in England which is a place that I would love to work.

I noticed that the WorldCat produced a lot more web results and that Eric produced only articles. My search terms were slightly different on each, but they were very similar.

RSS Feed

I chose 2 RSS Feeds, one from the national archives and one the Library Journal about academic libraries as these are the two areas I am interested in. They are both showing on the side.

Competency 3

Because I can not do anything half-way (or maybe because I am so indecisive) I have chosen two podcasts. The first can be found here according to Itunes the description of ths podcast is "Thoughts on the field of library science, digitization of historic materials and information science..." I thought that sounded interesting and the guy talks about more than just libraries, but he does have some interesting things to say. I especially liked the one entitled Reclaiming Our Past. I am also including this link that is a project from 2008 from The National Archive. Not only is the history behind it fascinating, bringing the whole project online where everyone has access to it is amazing and is something that I would like to be a part of one day. I found both of these podcasts by searching in Itunes.