Your Paper Sucked but it will Change the University
Returning to university for grad school is so intimidating, especially after you’ve been out of school for several years. The worst part? That first essay. In this podcast, university and college administrators discuss what they learned when they wrote their first term paper in the Master’s of higher education program at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
Your Paper Sucked but it will Change the University
S01E12: James Roussain - Academic Librarians and the Fight for Legitimacy
In this episode, we talk with James Roussain, the William D. Sharpe Chief Librarian and Director of Special Collections at the John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto. In both his paper and our discussion, James critiques the invisibility of academic librarians and explains the barriers faced as they sought to professionalize their field, helping us understand the complexity of information sciences and how universities really can’t function without librarians.