I know nobody will read this until my blog's bandwidth resets on August 1 but that's still enough warning if you're a Regina and area librarian about our next informal social gathering which will be held on Friday August 8 from 5-7pm at Beer Bros Bakery & Cuisine (1801 Scarth St). We'll be in the […]
From the “no duh!” files, the Library of Congress has come out officially as saying that Digital Rights Management is a serious obstacle to archiving materials.But copyright law also hampers important work being done at places like the Library of Congress, and a major new report on the issue from the Library points out the […]
…you volunteered to write a government brief about the value of libraries in your province. What would you include? What approach would you take? In this hypothetical example, let's say the sucker volunteer already has a draft with some statistics and facts relevant to libraries, both in general (the one from the 2004 Florida study […]
In the midst of a massive weeding project at work and I've come to a realization – you can have all the rules, guidelines and criteria you want. You can base your decisions on number of circulations in a given time frame, most recent circulation date, condition of the book, number of other copies in […]
Tomorrow is my YouDay. Since the government hasn't officially declared it a statutory holiday as per my recommendation, I am taking it off using one of my earned holidays as per my personal YouDay policy. Having Friday off, along with the recent news that the State of Utah is moving 20% of government employees to […]
(Er, except this list is for the United States) Still interesting though.(via MetaFilter)
An open source, collaborative Dewey replacement? That sounds pretty cool…The Dewey Decimal System® was great for its time, but it's outlived that. Libraries today should not be constrained by the mental models of the 1870s, doomed to tinker with an increasingly irrelevant system. Nor should they be forced into a proprietary system—copyrighted, trademarked and licensed […]
One of the tools that HR departments use these days is the 360 Review where, instead of the traditional performance review by your superior, feedback about your performance is solicited from everyone you work with – colleagues, co-workers, people you supervise, etc. We don't do 360 reviews at Southeast Regional Library but after talking to […]
One of the smaller jobs I do in my position of Branch Supervisor is review the local library board minutes that are sent in by each of our 47 branches after every one of their meetings (which can be anywhere from 4-12 times per year depending on the size of the branch.) I have to […]
I'm not sure if I put Pace to sleep tonight or he put me to sleep but at 8pm, we were both in bed, crashed out. So that means I wake up now and am going to be completely messed up tomorrow. Oh well – the same thing we always say when he naps at […]
