Hi all,
A slightly off-beam question to suit it being Friday afternoon...
A friend of mine has just taken a position at a small specialist humanities/social sciences academy. She's an archivist by training (we are allowed to talk to them - honestly... ;-), and is predominantly managing their archives and records, but the role also includes the management of a small (teensy tiny) library and its collections.
I'm aware that the situation is often reversed, whereby people managing a library find themselves looking after archives 'by mistake', and I know that there a fair few 'Basic Archives Skills' courses and resources for people in that sort of situation. I'm less aware, though, of resources to support people in my friend's position; certainly within the spheres of information that I've worked in the requirement is that library managers have the sort of qualifications that have formally taught them stuff like principles of collection development, taxonomy, information sources and retrieval, the best type of blu-tac to use so that your posters stay up, and suchlike.
I'd be interested to know whether anyone can recommend anything that might help her learn and develop the 'day-to-day' skills we draw on. Formal LIS qualifications aren't an option, but if you know of anyone who organises training or courses, any web resources, or even, dare I say it, any good books, do tell. Or even - has anyone here actually been in that situation?
Cheers,
Tom.
Tom Bishop | Head of Library and Surgical Information Services
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