WEBVTT 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:07.927 I started when I came to do that has something to do with a sus. I was in 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:15.960 office here right. I didn't no almost anyone on campus at the beginning of 00:00:16.230 --> 00:00:22.396 and and my colleagues at the library so and from my studies in 00:00:22.429 --> 00:00:27.706 Czechoslovakia had a very good mentor. It was an engineer by the way also 00:00:27.739 --> 00:00:32.347 but it taught what was at that time called automation and libraries and 00:00:32.380 --> 00:00:39.906 people like that but he was my personal manner mentor and he 00:00:39.939 --> 00:00:45.446 taught me, he worked in industry and some research institute also. He said 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:49.506 you have to know your audience, you have to know what your what they want 00:00:49.539 --> 00:00:54.116 when we are a service profession we are providing literature or other 00:00:54.149 --> 00:00:59.086 resources you know please stay online injury associated by the then it 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:04.307 wasn't online very much and they need help. 00:01:04.340 --> 00:01:09.736 Some professors here or researchers were not bad, they knew how to go 00:01:09.769 --> 00:01:15.736 around even without computers then but there were some who couldn't 00:01:15.769 --> 00:01:18.757 believe it at all you know and when I mentioned to them have you been 00:01:18.790 --> 00:01:22.596 using injuring index? And he would say huh what injuring index? I said 00:01:22.629 --> 00:01:30.217 well that's an index for engineer. Uh so what did I do? And this mentor of 00:01:30.250 --> 00:01:38.206 minor in Prague taught me this so I became very good at 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:42.227 helping servicing the audience, not only students of course students 00:01:42.260 --> 00:01:48.566 usually undergraduate. So you were educating faculty. Right. And so when I 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:54.926 first came and I'm borrowers had to hold the catalogs and look what they 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:59.167 are teaching especially in those areas. Science engineering had also 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:05.016 nursing under my wing so to speak because that's part of the sciences in a 00:02:05.049 --> 00:02:09.707 way that medical literature and so on. Then even psychology for a while. 00:02:09.740 --> 00:02:17.740 And uh then I realized that there's a lot of research going on and more 00:02:18.590 --> 00:02:25.406 and more of course here. Eventually we became Richard wants university. 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:29.427 So I got acquainted with the vice president for research office. Do you 00:02:29.460 --> 00:02:35.277 remember Harold handicap? Yeah, yeah you don't do it right. He was kind of 00:02:35.310 --> 00:02:42.846 a my help. I went to see him and he was a professor of education remember 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:49.006 correctly. But he did that research for a while and oh Bill Burke 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:54.876 chemistry. His was his boss. Since I was handling chemistry we became also 00:02:54.909 --> 00:03:00.527 very friendly and he was very supportive. So from Harold was getting all 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:05.367 the new information, all the new research or new grants or whatever or 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:12.307 extension of research. So I started with my students I said look 00:03:12.340 --> 00:03:17.277 make me cards for the faculty member. And then first we will put you know 00:03:17.310 --> 00:03:21.617 whatever I'm teaching from the catalog and then we will start adding the 00:03:21.650 --> 00:03:25.756 research interest or then I contacted some form, you know, it's into 00:03:25.789 --> 00:03:30.156 faculty. Not everybody responded. But most of them did. And those who 00:03:30.189 --> 00:03:37.006 really were interested in improving their chances let's say were very 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:45.039 cooperative. And so we had card file for us and we had an arrangement to 00:03:45.539 --> 00:03:51.416 subject areas. I mean one subject area which was by for instance, I don't 00:03:51.449 --> 00:03:55.207 know fluid dynamics. 00:03:55.240 --> 00:04:01.006 Okay, so look who is doing flight down, you know the names and then we had 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:07.027 headed by names of faculty. So if I look like what then Jankowski was 00:04:07.060 --> 00:04:13.467 doing, I knew what he was doing. Sometimes we got to request for refer 00:04:13.500 --> 00:04:19.687 people to faculty consulting and things like that. So it was good to know 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:27.217 what we could afford could offer them. And I remember when Dean Haydon 00:04:27.250 --> 00:04:33.486 came after lee Thompson retired, I was, I mean I met Dean Thompson 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.786 introduced myself to him and he said well he will be working with the 00:04:36.819 --> 00:04:41.556 department. So I knew all the department had 00:04:41.589 --> 00:04:47.527 ties and and gradually I was invited to the departmental meetings and 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:51.916 again some people didn't give a damn. So I said, okay, well some of them 00:04:51.949 --> 00:04:58.926 were just teaching, I guess not, it's bad but they were not that much 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:03.806 interested. I think they were doing there, I think, you know how it is. 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:09.666 Exactly right using textbooks. Those are the complaints I was getting 00:05:09.699 --> 00:05:17.699 England. I got in Prague 1990 one for my sabbatical. They told me 00:05:18.740 --> 00:05:21.697 Technical University, they said you know, some of these guys have been 00:05:21.730 --> 00:05:27.176 using the same text books that I wrote about the last 15 years. Well, some 00:05:27.209 --> 00:05:30.187 of the things don't change, physical laws usually don't change. That's 00:05:30.220 --> 00:05:36.967 true. But in engineering, I mean there is this is not totally unable, this 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:42.937 is more applied Science. So we started and we called them, I called them 00:05:42.970 --> 00:05:48.846 faculty profiles. That's one of my article somewhere that we knew quite 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:55.906 well about the faculty chairman Hayden came Dean Haydon. 00:05:55.939 --> 00:06:02.377 Um That was, I had to sell a meeting with him and he said hey that's a 00:06:02.410 --> 00:06:07.236 good idea, can I have a copy of that? I you know more about my family, you 00:06:07.269 --> 00:06:15.207 know because he must do so Hayden wanted this information and 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:19.507 over your long career what advice would you give to young people who are 00:06:19.540 --> 00:06:24.647 thinking about entering this library science 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:32.116 If they are entering um the sciences and engineering or like sciences or 00:06:32.149 --> 00:06:37.746 whatever I would advise them. Usually hear the requirement is a bachelors 00:06:37.779 --> 00:06:42.366 degree in this area. There are not very many engineers actually but there 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:47.757 are some but life sciences is very common that people have biology degree 00:06:47.790 --> 00:06:52.777 And you know in this country in order to get this uh master degree, 00:06:52.810 --> 00:06:56.916 Library information science which qualifies you to be a professional 00:06:56.949 --> 00:07:04.106 librarian. You have to Have obviously bachelors and then you go 1-2 years 00:07:04.139 --> 00:07:08.457 programs are now changing usually two years now. But it used to be one a 00:07:08.490 --> 00:07:15.447 year getting masters degree. Sometimes they call it masters of arts in 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:21.527 library and shape something. Master of science in libraries. An engineer, 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:23.676 librarian 00:07:23.709 --> 00:07:28.337 information studies you're always teaching. We don't have that program. 00:07:28.370 --> 00:07:33.277 Well we thought some of mostly school librarian ship within the college of 00:07:33.310 --> 00:07:39.176 education that was with my first boss. Alan was I think teaching the 00:07:39.209 --> 00:07:43.647 librarians of the education who went from that. They were degree in 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:47.846 education and then they became the librarians, elementary or secondary 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:54.306 schools. I would advise these people to get acquainted with these 00:07:54.339 --> 00:08:00.067 resources. And I think it's easier today because everybody searching 00:08:00.100 --> 00:08:03.507 already at least 00:08:03.540 --> 00:08:08.457 so if they become acquainted with these multiple databases that still 00:08:08.490 --> 00:08:16.337 exist chemical abstracts and during index the british sources, german 00:08:16.370 --> 00:08:22.616 sources, there are quite a few. So that language would help a little bit 00:08:22.649 --> 00:08:29.439 in Czechoslovakia. They put an emphasis. We had to study three languages. 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:35.327 Yeah, especially in the library field. Well the check is like touch or 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:42.896 something. There are not very many people. Mm hmm use it right. And or the 00:08:42.929 --> 00:08:47.917 skinny name and languages. So automatically during the war I learned 00:08:47.950 --> 00:08:52.967 german and I think I was very good at the end I would Doris with the 00:08:53.000 --> 00:09:00.707 german soldiers. When we occupied us at the end of the war S. S. 00:09:00.740 --> 00:09:06.136 And then Russian came on. But I immediately started studying english in 00:09:06.169 --> 00:09:10.626 that particular school I mentioned during the Commercial Academy because 00:09:10.659 --> 00:09:17.266 there was always leading to some foreign trade, foreign business jobs and 00:09:17.299 --> 00:09:25.299 so on. So and then when I was in the university college I had to pass two 00:09:25.669 --> 00:09:33.669 languages. So No 3, 3 Russian was part of the curricula and the other mind 00:09:33.990 --> 00:09:39.276 were english and german And I passed those they were like four semester 00:09:39.309 --> 00:09:44.947 courses and I those I passed in one semester because I probably was better 00:09:44.980 --> 00:09:51.217 than the teacher sometimes. Sometimes I'm not saying I learn more with the 00:09:51.250 --> 00:09:57.626 american english. Thanks to the military, us military radio. If you know 00:09:57.659 --> 00:10:01.947 what, I've heard a lot of Europeans, that's how they learned. English 00:10:01.980 --> 00:10:09.307 armed forces radio and I listened to it Since 19 like 47, 00:10:09.340 --> 00:10:14.337 every day. So when I came here, some people say, what do you know about 00:10:14.370 --> 00:10:18.327 hillbillies? I said, well I was listening to the hillbilly music on the 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:23.437 radio, but now they wouldn't be allowed to do it right using the name, 00:10:23.470 --> 00:10:26.807 right? 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.817 That was not involved country, country and western, right? But I I like 00:10:31.850 --> 00:10:39.850 that. It was kind of a no room for me. And when I came my assistant said, 00:10:39.940 --> 00:10:43.846 what do you know about hillbillies? I said, well I know there are songs, 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:50.457 hank, snow, hank Williams, little Dominicans name immediately she says, 00:10:50.490 --> 00:10:58.490 wow. And then of course I was a big band fan and and what have you did I 00:10:59.649 --> 00:11:07.067 answer a question, I would recommend it's a good field and if you, because 00:11:07.100 --> 00:11:13.506 people have their specialties or whatever science engineering architecture 00:11:13.539 --> 00:11:21.539 , everybody has their kind of, I think it's good when the profession is 00:11:22.029 --> 00:11:28.207 your hobby at the same time. In many ways I'm still connected. I don't 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:33.917 contribute. I think the last article about 4, 5 years ago. And then I said 00:11:33.950 --> 00:11:38.639 why I'm busting my job. I don't need any promotion.