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VOLUME 37, NUMBER 2
APRIL 2025 TM
ISSN: 1043-2094
“Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians”
Non-MLS Library Careers: What Other Backgrounds Bring to Libraries
Non-MLS Library Careers: What Other Backgrounds Bring to Libraries...................... 14 An Interview with Marianne Siener, Library Accountant, Lamar Soutter Library.............. 15 Out of Circulation: Reflections on Nontraditional Librarianship.............................. 17
REGULAR COLUMNS
Guest Edited by Marci Cohen
(Head, Music Library, Boston University, Retired) Begins on Page 14
If Rumors Were Horses
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WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THIS ISSUE:
here’s a lot happening in the library and information science world — some good, some bad — but we’re moving forward against the tides. Let’s get into it!
Bet You Missed It....................... 10 Reader’s Roundup..................... 19 Booklover.................................... 23 Questions and Answers............ 24 And They Were There............... 26 Libraries, Leadership, and Synergies.................................... 33 Wandering the Web.................. 36 Biz of Digital............................... 38 The Digital Toolbox.................. 40 Both Sides Now: Vendors and Librarians............................ 41 Back Talk..................................... 54
LUMINARIES
Conference News and Travel Updates Spring conference season is drawing to a close, and there have been some excellent industry gatherings lately! Caroline Goldsmith and Liz Weiss attended ACRL on behalf of the Charleston Hub and reported a great mix of presentations and networking there. And (not to toot my own horn, but TOOT TOOT!) my book launch was held there at the University of Michigan Publishing booth. Doing the Charleston is now available to read for free online or order a print copy at https://services.publishing.umich. edu/Books/D/Doing-the-Charleston. Here’s a picture of Charles Watkinson and Martha Kyrillidou “Doing the Charleston” at ACRL! A note from Charles: “I’m learning that if you hang out even with a *picture* of Katina Strauch at Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in Minneapolis, you hear some great stories about Charleston Hub and what has happened around the edges of the conference ... both business and (very) social. Thanks for coming by and #doingthecharleston, Steven Sutton, Mark McBride, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, continued on page 8
Isaac Gilman............................... 43 Theresa Quiner.......................... 45
INTERVIEWS Elisabeth Bik.............................. 47 Rachel Borchardt, Andrea Hebert and Camille Gamboa................. 49
PROFILES ENCOURAGED People, Library and Company Profiles........................................ 53 Plus more...................... See inside