50+ Articles Every Librarian Should Read

A few days ago I was putzing around on r/Librarians and I came upon the following:

“Just wondering if anyone knows of any books / articles / websites that are essential, or at least very useful, for anyone who wants to know the field?”

I went about my day helping patrons, attending meetings and working on promotional materials and yet all the while I was thinking about what I had read regarding librarianship. Throughout the day I spoke with my coworkers, asking them what they had read while pursuing their MLS/MLIS and even what they would recommend to me as an aspiring librarian. After collecting a fairly extensive list from coworkers, other blog posts and my own experiences I decided to post the collection I put together*.

A Data Management and Data Sharing Bibliography for Librarians | Kevin the Librarian. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://kevinthelibrarian.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/a-data-management-bibliography-for-librarians/

ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee. (2013). Environmental Scan 2013 (p. 45). Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/whitepapers/EnvironmentalScan13.pdf

Anderson, Rick. (2011). The Crisis in Research Librarianship. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. doi:10.1016/jacalib.2011.04.001Are Librarians Still Important? | Scholastic.com. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3757441

Ashbrook, Tom. (2013, May 7). What Can Libraries Do To Survive in the Digital Age? On Point with Tom Ashbrook. Radio Station Blog. Retrieved from http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/05/07/future-of-libraries

British Library, & Joint Information Systems Committe of the Higher Education Funding Council. (2009). Researchers of Tomorrow: the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students (Cohort study No. 1) (p. 85). United Kingdom: Reasearchers of Tomorrow. Retrieved from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2012/researchers-of-tomorrow.aspx

Browne, R., Lasserre, K., McTaggart, J., Bayley, L., McKibbon, A., Clark, M., … Murphy, J. (2012). International trends in Health Science Librarianship: Part 1 – the English speaking world. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 29(1), 75–80. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2011.00973.x

Burton, Gideon. (2009, August 24). Scholarly Communications Must Transform. Academic Evolution. Personal Blog. Retrieved from http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/08/scholarly-communications-must-transform-1.html

Bush, V. (1945, July). As We May Think. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

Casey, Michael E., & Savastinuk, Laura C. (2006, September 1). Service for the next-generation library. Library Journal Archive. Archival Blog. Retrieved from http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6365200.html

Cox, Elizabeth J. (2007, July 1). I’m a New Librarian!… Now What? Retrieved from http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=morris_articles

Digital Ethnography. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch

Dr. David J. Staley. (2012). Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Scenarios for the Future of the Book (p. 34). United States: Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/value/scenarios2012.pdf

Friedman, B. (1996). Value Sensitive Design. Interactions, (Nov/Dec), pp. 16–23.

Gardois, P., Colombi, N., Grillo, G., & Villanacci, M. C. (2012). Implementation of Web 2.0 services in academic, medical and research libraries: a scoping review. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 29(2), 90–109. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2012.00984.x

Glassman, Penny. (2012, December 20). Health Literacy. National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Organizational. Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/hlthlit.html

Gleick, J. (2012). The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. Vintage.

Godin, Seth. (2011, May). The future of the library. Seth Godin. Personal Blog. Retrieved from http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/05/the-future-of-the-library.html

How OPACs Suck, Part 1: Relevance Rank (Or the Lack of It) | ALA TechSource. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2006/03/how-opacs-suck-part-1-relevance-rank-or-the-lack-of-it.html

How OPACs Suck, Part 2: The Checklist of Shame | ALA TechSource. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2006/04/how-opacs-suck-part-2-the-checklist-of-shame.html

How To Become a 21st Century Librarian. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/03/careers/how-to-become-a-21st-century-librarian/

Hull, D., Pettifer, S. R., & Kell, D. B. (2008). Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web. PLoS Comput Biol, 4(10), e1000204. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204

Information as Thing – JASIS 1991. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/thing.html

Johnson, M. (2010). This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (1st ed.). Harper.

Kelley, Michael. (2011, April 26). Geeks Are the Future: A Program in Ann Arbor, MI, Argues for a Resource Shift Toward IT. Library Journal Archive. Archival Blog. Retrieved from http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/890328-264/geeks_are_the_future_a.html.csp (this link no longer works)

Ken Chad, & Miller, Paul. (2005, November). Do libraries matter? The rise of Library 2.0. Retrieved from http://www.capita-libraries.co.uk/downloads/white_papers/DoLibrariesMatter.pdf

Kirsch, Breanne. (2011). How to Become an Essential Librarian. The Journal of the New Members Round Table, 2(1), pp. 1–17.

Lanier, Jaron. (2013) Who Owns the Future?

Lankes, R. D. (2011). The Atlas of New Librarianship (1st ed.). The MIT Press.

Lankes, R.D. (2008). Credibility on the internet: shifting from authority to reliability. Journal of Documentation, 64(5), 667–686.

Latest Study: A full-time school librarian makes a critical difference in boosting student achievement | School Library Journal. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.slj.com/2013/03/research/librarian-required-a-new-study-shows-that-a-full-time-school-librarian-makes-a-critical-difference-in-boosting-student-achievement/

Lebert, M. (2009). A Short History of EBooks. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29801

Libraries Matter: Impact Research | American Library Association. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.ala.org/research/librariesmatter/

Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web

Mayer-Schonberger, Viktor. (2013). Big Data: A revolution that will transform how we live, work and think.

McCann, S. (2011, April 4). Sources for Disruption of Library Services. A Digital Outrigger. Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://librarydigitalprojects.com/2011/04/04/sources-for-disruption-of-library-services/

n.a. (2008). Better Than Free. The Technium. Organization/Personal. Retrieved from http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php

Nourbakhsh, E., Nugent, R., Wang, H., Cevik, C., & Nugent, K. (2012). Medical literature searches: a comparison of PubMed and Google Scholar. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 29(3), 214–222. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2012.00992.x

Pariser, E. (2012). The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think (Reprint.). Penguin Books.

Patricia Watkins. (2011, November 16). Future of Academic Libraries. Technology. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/PrescottPati/is100ppt-rev2

Pressley, L. (2009). So You Want To Be a Librarian. Library Juice Press.

Recommended Reading. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet23

Rubin, R. (2010). Foundations of Library and Information Science, Third Edition (Third Edition.). Neal-Schuman Publishers.

Siliogni, Lynn, & Dickey, Timothy. (2010). The Digital Information Seeker: Report of the Findings from Selected OCLC, RIN, and JISC User Behaviour Projects (No. 706). London: Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) on behalf of JISC. Retrieved from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2010/digitalinformationseekerreport.pdf

So DO You Want to be a Data Scientist? (n.d.). A Librarian by Any Other Name. Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://librarianhats.net/2013/03/28/datascientis/

So You Think You Want to Be a Librarian? (n.d.). PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/57090-so-you-think-you-want-to-be-a-librarian.html

Standards Toolkit. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.ala.org/acrl/issues/infolit/standards/standardstoolkit

Statement of Principles on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives (2009) | IFLA. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.ifla.org/publications/statement-of-principles-on-copyright-exceptions-and-limitations-for-libraries-and

Sullivan, B. T. (2011, January 2). Academic Library Autopsy Report, 2050. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Library-Autopsy/125767/

The Librarian Doesn’t Exist | Peer to Peer Review. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/04/opinion/peer-to-peer-review/the-librarian-doesnt-exist-peer-to-peer-review/#_

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml

Thomas, S., Joseph, C., Laccetti, J., Mason, B., Mills, S., Perril, S., & Pullinger, K. (2007). Transliteracy: Crossing divides. First Monday, 12(12). Retrieved from http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2060

Transformation Lab – Prototyping the Future. (2007). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpFO_L_jA1c&feature=youtube_gdata_player

VALUE OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES TOOLKIT. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.ala.org/acrl/issues/value/valueofacademiclibrariestoolkit

What do Librarians Need to Know About MOOCs? (n.d.). D-Lib Magazine: The Magazine of Digital Library Research. Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/wright/03wright.html

What is a document? JASIS 1997. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/whatdoc.html

Willen-Brown, Stephanie. (2008). The Reference Interview: Theories and Practice, Stephanie Willen Brown. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. University Website. Retrieved May 16, 2013, from http://unllib.unl.edu/LPP/willenbrown.htm

*Pardon the APA formatting, I will come back and clean these up as I have time. Also, please let me know is any of the links don’t work so I can fix them.

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