Last day of my apprenticeship in the University Library

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Today my last day of my apprenticeship in the University Library.
On this blog you have been reading about the things I’ve done this last three months.
Next monday my colleagues of the Library Faculty of Arts expect my back in the Harmonie building.
It has been a quite interesting period. Completely something else than in the Faculty of Arts.
My Estonian colleague Ain Uljas will continue a part of my project, the Groningen version of FeedNavigator. Good luck with it, Ain!

Yesterday we had the official presentation of the reorganization plan of the Groningen University Library. That is connected to my work in the Library Faculty of Arts.
At Faculty of Arts, again, I will have a lot of tasks, serving the staff & students of the Faculty: preparing library classes for the students of History, lending & information desk, helping & advising students with literature searching, database instruction, MS Office help, and computer problems. And more.

But, according to mr. Klugkist, the head librarian of the University Library in Groningen, helping students with computer & database problems, is not a task of library people. He thinks it is something for computer staff. I do not agree with him.
I think librarians can teach students more complete, than IT staff can.
It is not just solving printing problems! I think in our library (three computer rooms;about 70 computers) it is very helpfull to have at least one IT librarian, a specialist in helping students, and also staff, who have computer problems, advising in literature searching and database questions.

It think it is good for a library to give a complete service to their customers, advising, searching, problem solving, and more.

And not to be dependent on a computer helpdesk which is on a distance, and often only does react only after 24 hrs, or longer.
That is just a question of quality!

Okay, enough about this.

Now something else: since I’ll join my Arts colleagues again, I think of changing the name of this blog: Ubetom will become Elbetom (pronounce: “elbay” in dutch, short LB. LB is LetterenBibliotheek, that is the Library of Arts.
But the URL probably will stay: ubetom.wordpress.com.

Colleague MiTho proposed VeBeTom. VeBe = VakBibliotheek, that is Discipline Library, that will be the new name after the Library Reorganization.
Well, maybe it’s better to keep my name, in these uncertain times.

2 Reacties »

  1. michiel zei

    bravo!

  2. lupardi zei

    You’re spot on. A library does need an IT librarian. IT is here to stay and used in the library.

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