AN INTERVIEW WITH JEREMY UPTON We’re starting this New Year with a new series of interviews with Academic Librarians on Intellectual Freedom and Change, which we have conducted on behalf of De Gruyter.The first one was published today: Linda Bennett in conversation with Jeremy Upton, Director of Library & University Collections at The University of Edinburgh. To view the interview,ContinueContinue reading “ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS ON INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AND CHANGE, PART 1”
Category Archives: Learning from Libraries
Learning from Libraries: UK academic librarians support their teaching colleagues during Covid-19
Introduction “A man will turn over half a library to make one book.” Dr Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer, 1775 Dr Johnson’s words were more prophetic than he knew. He lived in an age which thought of libraries as storage houses for thousands of codex volumes. And that, of course, is what libraries continued to beContinueContinue reading “Learning from Libraries: UK academic librarians support their teaching colleagues during Covid-19”
Librarians: the quiet and unsung professionals battling Covid every day
We have heard a great deal about front line workers this year – nurses and doctors and all those working for the NHS and its counterpart national and medical organisations throughout the world; teachers; members of the armed forces; delivery men; and those who toil at jobs in retail when they’re allowed to go toContinueContinue reading “Librarians: the quiet and unsung professionals battling Covid every day”
Learning from Libraries – an interview with Roxanne Missingham
Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian and the Australian National University (ANU) describes what it means to her to be a librarian Tell us a bit about your career. Did you always want to be a librarian? Where was your first job? Where did you get your library qualification? My mother says that I wanted to beContinueContinue reading “Learning from Libraries – an interview with Roxanne Missingham”
Mrs Lee Cheng Ean: a profile
I first met Mrs Lee Cheng Ean in January 2013 at dual advisory board meetings which I facilitated in Shanghai and Beijing, but her reputation long preceded that. She is extremely well-known in both the East and the West as one of the world’s most competent and inspired librarians. I have since met her atContinueContinue reading “Mrs Lee Cheng Ean: a profile”
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