Reading corner

Sometimes you can't get all the information you need just by asking questions, doing library visits, or even through hands-on experience. Sometimes you need to crack open a book or two. Here is a list of the books I have read and my thoughts on them. Some I am still working through so there is not much to say, but I'll let you know what I think of them eventually.

Essential cataloguing : the Basics

Bowman, JH

(This was an excellent intro to cataloguing. I had not yet done any cataloguing myself so I could not use the specifics, but I was able to take away a general idea which I could use eventually. This book covers AARC2 and MARK21.)

Librarianship : an introduction

Cowdhury, GG

(I can't reccomend this book enough. I knew much of the day-in and day-out work of being a librarian, but had little overview of what librarianship is really about. This book covers all aspects from types of libraries to collection development, from classification, to promotion and layout. The only thing it did leave out was the difference between subject indexing and ontologies and that is why I needed to find an article on ontologies specifically.)

Using ontologies for knowledge management : an information systems perspective

Jurisica, Igor et al

Published in:

· Journal

Knowledge and Information Systems archive

Volume 6 Issue 4, July 2004 Pages 380 - 401

Building your portfolio : the CILIP guide

Watson, M

(I have mostly only used this book to understand what is meant by reflective practice. It's a bit outdated and I haven't really needed most of it.)

Research Methods in information

Pickard, A

(I wish i had had this book back when I was doing my thesis. I have had many classes and read several texts on research and none of them has been as clear as this one. More people should learn about research from an information professionals' perspective, I think. Learn to do research from a librarian!)

A Handbook of ethical practice : a practical guide to dealing with ethical issues in information and library work

McMenemy, D

(I have yet to finish this book. The Librarianship book covers ethics as well, I just felt that I wanted to go a bit more in depth.)

Interactive information seeking, behavior and retrieval

Ruthven, Ian

(I am about to start this book this week. I have been working to catalogue the ebooks I selected from EBSCO. Normally one would not catalogue them since we don't actually own the copies (they are a PDA), but having them in the OPAC seemed essential for readers to be able to find them. I am now looking into Primo to see if there is a better way for our readers to find out electronic resources, however. It does seem that even the journal articles are way too difficult to source at the moment. But I need to know more about how readers search for information before I can say that something like PRIMO can help one way or another.)