ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 410 / C&RL News ■ June 2002 In t h e news A com m on com m ent from librarians w hen faced with the unexpected challenges of a mul­ tifaceted, sometim es fly-by-the-seat-of-your- pants, position is, “They didn’t tell us about this in library school.” Jina Choi Wakimoto returned to library work as a cataloger expecting to brush up on AACR2 and MARC formats. She ended up creating a new role for herself developing Korean exhib­ its at her library. “From cataloger to curator: the Korean exhibits of an accidental ethnic li­ brarian,” describes the path she took to end u p in this unlikely position. Despite the fact that w e are not taught in library school how to run exhibits and other special programs, m any in the profession take on this role. Steven R. Harris provides another example of this in “Writers in the library: liter­ ary programming on a shoestring,” w hich d e ­ scribes the University of Tennessee’s success­ ful Writers in the Libraiy project, a unique pro­ gram in the realm of academic libraries. In “Boosting libraries at university orientations,” D. Brett Spencer, provides helpful tips for de­ signing a booth to prom ote your library. “Subject access in an interdisciplinary e n ­ vironm ent” explores the possible options for dealing with interdisciplinary studies on cam­ pus. Anthony Vaver has discovered that stan­ dard subject headings seem to simultaneously help and hinder interdisciplinary w ork and comes to his ow n conclusions as to the best w ay to handle this. So, they didn’t tell us about all of this in library school, yet librarians m anage to suc­ cessfully m eet new challenges regularly. Most will attest that the support of colleagues, li­ brary directors, and administrators across cam­ pus has been crucial to their success. W hen you com bine this support with personal cre­ ativity, drive, and commitment, the possibili­ ties are endless. — Stephanie Orphan, Editor-in-chief sorphan@ala.org mailto:sorphan@ala.org