I (finally) subscribed to AIB

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I said it, and I did it: I finally subscribed to the Italian Libraries Association!

And now, let’s see how it goes :-)

Mendeley Advisor

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The Mendeley Advisor Badge

Since yesterday, I am a Mendeley Advisor.

This means that I will officially take care about the support and organization of events at my insitution, the University of Torino. Basically this leads me to go further into the knowledge of the product and the support I am willing to offer: lately I found myself giving some suggestions, and it was with great pleasure; now I will do it more often, and with even more pleasure.

For now, I enjoy the vanity aspects: here is a neat badge for my blog and my Mendeley public profile :-)

Library + science = CERN internship

So many things in this 2011 which, after the first 5 days, went better and better, a progression of memorable events. One of my goals since the beginning of the master program was to have my internship at CERN. Being here was a dream come true, the proper conclusion to a beautiful year dominated by the master months in Tallinn and Parma (and Firenze and Berlin).
The original, marvelous, library science! (photo source: Cern)

The original, marvelous, library science! (photo source: Cern)

I was here for just one month, but I know that I must say something about this awesome place, I know it deserves a lot of words, and beautiful ones, and I don’t know how to do because beautiful words about this very place were written by Aubreymcfato, so it’s better to just read those, since I 100% agree.

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New breed, new librarians

We are the new breed, we are the future!

I have almost finished reading The Atlas of New Librarianship by David Lankes – I am now on the final pages about education and training of the new librarians for the new librarianship. It may be the power of Lankes’ rethorics, or the fact that lately this is a very hot topic to me, but in a rapture of elation I felt just like this:

Lankes will be in Rome next november 18th, speaking at the National AIB Congress. I had the chance to read his talk, and I can confirm it will be very interesting to listen to him talking about change, mission, a new vision requiring responsibility and raising of expectations. I hope his words will help to take some italian librarians out of the quaint and static attitude that we often have.

I said that this is a hot topic for me now. These are the last days of my master: Parma semester is now at its ending. I still have a one-month internship, then 5 months to write my thesis, but the big deal is now behind me, and it’s time to say farewell to friends. Reading now these last pages I really feel like at the end of a cycle, one and a half year spent to think and learn about our profession, working on the training of a new librarian.

We are the new breed! We are the future!

Open Day Swets Italy 2011

Il 13 ottobre prossimo andrò a Milano per partecipare alla tavola rotonda dal titolo Collaborazione e condivisione: quali strumenti per fare scienza di qualità in occasione di Open Day Swets Italy 2011.

Sono stato invitato in virtù del mio interesse per i sistemi di gestione delle citazione e gli strumenti di collaborazione online. Non so ancora bene di cosa parlerò, a dirla tutta, ma sarà sicuramente un incontro stimolante e interessante. Modera Paola Gargiulo.

I dettagli si trovano qui: http://www.swets.it/node/961.

L’incontro si terrà alla Biblioteca Ambrosiana, e come si legge dal comunicato, sarà decisamente eco-friendly. Venite numerosi!

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