Category Archives: Research

Aaron Swartz and Too-Comfortable Research Libraries

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Bohyun (Library Hat)

*** This post has been originally published in ACRL TechConnect on Feb. 11, 2013. *** *** Update: Several references and a video added (thanks to Brett Bonfield) on Feb. 21, 2013. *** Who was Aaron Swartz? If you are a … Continue reading →

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Enabling the Research ‘Flow’ and Serendipity in Today’s Digital Library Environment

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Bohyun (Library Hat)

*** This post has been also published on ACRLog on Oct. 29, 2012. *** Today’s library users do not carry pencils and notebooks to a library. They do no longer want to be isolated to concentrate on deep study or … Continue reading →

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Usability in Action (1) – Don’t Offer Irrelevant Options in the First Place

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Bohyun (Library Hat)

Many assume that adding more information would automatically increase the usability of a website.  While there are cases in which this would be true,  often a better option is to make that needed information not necessary at all for a … Continue reading →

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Published! Chapter 8. Mobile Use in Medicine: Taking a Cue from Specialized Resources and Devices

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Bohyun (Library Hat)

The presentation that I gave with my colleague, Marissa Ball, at Handheld Librarian Online Conference II (February 17, 2010.) is now out as a book chapter in the new book published by Routledge, Mobile Devices and the Library: Handheld Tech, … Continue reading →

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Research Librarianship in Crisis: Mediate When, Where, and How?

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Bohyun (Library Hat)

*** This post has been originally published on ACRLog *** The talk about the crisis of librarianship is nothing new. Most recently, back in May, Seth Godin, a marketing guru, has written on his blog a post about the future … Continue reading →

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Getting Published in a Peer-Reviewed Journal

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Bohyun (Library Hat)

My very first scholarly article in a LIS journal is about to be published in the fall issue of the Journal of Web Librarianship!  And I have two more articles submitted to two other journals, the Reference Librarian and Technical … Continue reading →

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Academics and Web 2.0

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Bohyun (Library Hat)

I was reading an interesting article from Research Information the other day, “Web 2.0 fails to excite today’s researchers” by David Stuart.  My job as a librarian is to help researchers at my institution do their research more efficiently and … Continue reading →

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Academic Librarians and Library Scholarship

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Bohyun (Library Hat)

What would be the difference between librarians classified as faculty and librarians classified as staff?  The first thing that comes to many people’s mind would be that faculty librarians are promoted based upon their scholarship/research outcome and are often given … Continue reading →

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Academic Librarians and Getting Published

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Bohyun (Library Hat)

When I was in a MLIS program, I was only vaguely aware of the fact that some academic librarians are appointed as faculty while some are not.  Now that I work at a library where librarians are considered to be … Continue reading →

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