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Next month, from 19-20 May, I'll be hosting FanLIS, an online symposium about the intersections between fandom, fan studies, and Library & Information Science. We'll be talking about a range of fan practices from fan-tagging to fan-binding, and discussing fandoms from Blaseball to Down to Agincourt!

We're welcoming people from all walks to attend - fans, acafans, librarians, students, information pros, and anyone who has an interest in the liminal spaces between these areas. The great thing is, we'll be hearing from people just like you! 😊

You can register for free here, and see our programme here.

Hope to see you there, and please feel free to share this so other interested peeps can join us if they want! 💖

Hello!

Well, I think it’s a little hard to know exactly what they’ll ask, and I think it might depend a lot on what kind of collection you’ll be developing, and the kind of library you’ll be working at. But stuff they may well ask are things like:

1) How do you envision the future of the collection, and how it fits in with our mission?

2) How will you develop the collection to best serve our community?

3) Take us through how you’d go about choosing and purchasing an item?

They may also ask questions related to budget management, collection management, any experience of working with vendors and procurement (if you have any), and any experience working on collection development policies (or any policies you may have worked on, if any at all). 

If they ask you if you have any questions for them, do ask them what they hope you can do for them, the collection, and the community.

Also, I think you’re doing the right thing in researching the institution, because it always helps to know whether the collection is more traditional or dynamic and forward-thinking, and what kind of users they serve. The questions they ask, and they’re expecting from you, may well be influenced by those factors.

Good luck!

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On Hyperauthorship @ConversationUK #HigherEd

I‘ve neglected this blog of late, but there’s been lots of activity elsewhere (don’t miss the latest posts here).

Today in The Conversation UK, my piece on hyperauthorship… what happens to the concept of ‘author’ when articles creidt thousands of authors? Read here.

If you find it interesting, please share the link! ;-)

Follow-up answer for #citylis

At yesterday's workshop @miss_tabetha was asking if there was a way to be notified of new tweets (hash)tagged with #citylis rather than having to search & check from time-to-time.

Live notifications

It is possible with some tools to be notified thru' pop-ups/sounds in real-time. For example if you are using Tweetdeck desktop tool you can add a #citylis column and then turn-on notifications for that column so that you are alerted on the screen:

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