Hi! We are the Kathryn & Shelby Cullom Davis #Library of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, aka #IHEID / #GVAGrad.
We specialise in international affairs (history, politics, economics, sociology, law) and publish news and updates from our blog. Feel free to ask us questions! #Introduction #AcademicLibrary #HigherEducation

Asking again if anyone out there in #library land has experience setting up #WebBridge? I’m trying to figure out how to resuscitate our lapsed installation from old (Innovative) documentation and a list of inactive resources.

#libraries #academiclibrary
#sierraILS

The campus has really been alive with the surge of new and returning students for the Fall semester. I've been getting wild questions like "What's so special about Special Collections?" and "Why do we even have this department if we can't browse your collections?" #LibraryLife #AcademicLibrary

Do the "informational interview for this position" webinars really work? I'm seeing more of them and I guess for a cluster hire that might work but for a single niche librarian role it seems excessive. Does it reduce enough of the hidden curriculum of academic hiring or just reinforce access barriers by privileging those who can randomly attend midday?

Student: Someone defaced this book.

Me: Oh yeah. That's common. Students tend to write marginalia and underline passages.

Student: That's not that. You may want to take a look.

Me: (embarassed as fuck because I WAS NOT expecting to see THAT!) Oh geez. Yeah. No. Ok. Was not thinking I was gonna... Ok yeah. Totally not a note I was expecting to see. Thank you.

#MetaIsDown for the count this morning. I'm sipping my coffee while writing a reflection on #GloriaAnzaldua's #BorderlandsLaFrontera. A student is here researching. The #library is quiet.

I'm trying to make sense of something. #SpecialCollections isn't a browseable(sp?) department. We have some unique items that are often one of a kind, original #historic documents. Not to mention centuries #OldBooks that are worth thousands of dollars. So we have stanchions out to deter people from exploring the department. Also one of us is usually "on guard" (aka reference desk duty).

Part of my job is caring about these #RareBooks. They suffered a lot of damage from years of surviving in the wild. If I had the skills to #restore these #OldBooks, you bet I would being that.. But I was only tasked with boxing them to give them that extra fighting chance.

Forgive that copy of Bunyan's Complete Works on the second shelf there. It decided it no longer wanted to stand on its own.

#LibraryLife #SpecialCollections #AcademicLibrary #Archives #Bookstodon
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So I was making something on #Canva today for work. And I shared it with my colleagues without changing the name of the template to suit the project. What I didn't realize was the original designs name: Online Dating Tips.

Something I forwarded to my entire team!

Did you know that our first library catalogue is 405 years old?

In 1619, the first librarian of the University of Groningen Library, Nicolaus Mulerius, compiled a list of all books then available in our library.
Mulerius and his successors kept adding acquisitions to this Librorum Academicorum Syllabus. It's available online, including transcriptions.

https://syllabus.ub.rug.nl/english/index.html

Today 4 weeks ago we quit. Thank you for the warm welcome here and your interest.

We're curious to hear from you: How are we doing? What content do you expect a university library (like us) to share here? How can we (better) contribute to the community here?

Farewell, ! After 14 years on Twitter/X, we feel it's time to part ways.

Recent developments there do not align with our core values. We stand for trustworthy information provision and are committed to open science.

Follow us here for open science-related updates and news on our services and support for the academic community.

#OpenScience #AcademicLibrary
#GoodbyeTwitter #ResearchSupport #EducationSupport

Now that I've been lurking a bit, an #introduction...

I'm Cindy, a #SystemsLibrarian at a DC #AcademicLibrary with an interest in #privacy in #libraries. Formerly on Twitter as @calimae

Other stuff: Longtime #fanfic writer, currently inactive. Owned by two #cats, who help me #CrossStitch. #Episcopalian. Play viola, sing alto, #BoardGames enjoyer, Yoga with Adriene devotee. Aromantic asexual, don't really care about pronouns so I default to she/her.

Today's "Anonymous Survey" asks for

Years in an academic setting (5 year ranges)

Area of Work (notably no option for digital/data/systems work --- which puts me in other and more identifiable)

Academic Rank
Geographic Region
Carnegie Classification (Enrollment)
Carnegie Type (R1, R2)
How many libraries does your institution have
Please list all the library types
How many professional librarians are your institution

Why are work-related books so expensive? I'm trying to learn to grow in my job and this sorta makes it hard. I could probably ask them to buy me books, but that means they have to stay here and I can't mark on them.

Even the used copies are pricy. Why?!

Asking the important questions.

The book (Narrative Expansions: Interrupting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries edited by Jess Crilly & Regina Everitt) doesn't really focus on the #SpecialCollections & #Archives aspect of the #AcademicLibrary. I was interested in #reading it up until that part. Still might, but it's pricey.

Interesting to see how other academic #libraries are #decolonizing their collection.

It occurs to me I haven’t done a formal introduction on here, so…hi! I’m a #librarian and director of an #academiclibrary, and an #adjunct #professor, all at a small #university in the South. I have #cats and #dogs, read a lot of nonfiction, watch too much #truecrime, and am an overall #geek. Mom to a college student, wife to a fellow geek. She/her.