Post a Comment On: A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette

Since there is so much dreadful stuff published in professional journals and presented at professional meetings, it's important to come up with a snazzy title for your scholarly endeavors. Below are some general guidelines, presented as potential article titles: The colonization of library literature: using punctuation to spice up your article titles. Proprefixualization: Using prefixes and suffixes to create new buzz words. Misutilization of the word utilize: Mangling the English language in the name of librarianship. Bland, boring, and banal: Alliteration as an alleviator for sub-par scholarship.