Wordles have exploded in popularity over the last couple of years. Everyone from digital humanists to academic technologists and librarians are utilizing them to convey information in a concise way. Here in Instruction & Outreach we have used them for post-library instruction assessment by compiling student comments and creating a word [...]

David Carr and I worked as reference librarians at Rutgers in the Dark Ages, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the card catalog and printed reference books held the answers.  David went on to a distinguished career as a library educator at Rutgers and recently retired from UNC’s School of [...]

A recent Chronicle of Higher Ed post by The Ubiquitous Librarian discusses the journey to “becoming a scholar”. It encouraged me to reflect on my own experiences in this realm-particularly with respect to the organization of information and goods. As a young student I was an avid organizer-my books were in order, as was [...]