29 Web Apps For Students and White Collar Workers – lots of cool sites here, many of which I'd never seen before.In other news, I had a surreal moment today: I was at a branch near my house today and got talking to a clerk. When I mentioned my new position with RPL, she said […]
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I'm Going Home
The announcement went out to the staff at Regina Public Library today so I can now officially talk about my new job. I have accepted a position as RPL's Organization Development Specialist! “As a what??? I never took a class on that in library school,” I hear you saying and I have to admit, I […]
I Have A Job
Well, having managed to convince myself that I would likely be sitting on EI for a month or two this fall waiting for some pending jobs to be posted, there was a small flurry of Regina-based library jobs posted in the last month. I went for three interviews early last week, had two offers by […]
Hypothetical Reality Question
A bit of hypothetical reality question for you – what is the single most important thing you should do as a manager to help staff accept institutional change?
LibrarianGear Is Back
Canuck Librarian recently posted that the Librarian Gear store is back in operation as well as listing a couple other places to get library-related swag. I'd also add CafePress to the list although I'm not sure how good of quality their stuff is – I've never ordered from them but have heard mixed reviews. Hmm, […]
Link Dump
I'm getting so many tabs open in Firefox that it's time for a patented Jason Hammond Link Dump. (That sounds awful. I should come up with a better name for it!)Er, here's the accumulated shit…“The Road” tops EW's list of 25 New Book ClassicsSkip the MBA program and get your personal MBA by reading these […]
What Proportion of Academic Library Books Never Get Read?
AskMetaFilter recently featured an interesting question about how many books in a typical University library rarely or never get used.It was timely for me because, although I'm in a public library setting, I'm in the midst of a major weeding project so I've had occasion to look at the usage statistics for over a thousand […]
Author Offers IPO
Author offers IPO to raise funds to help him write his second novel with 60% of royalties as the reward. The story also contains a link to an oldie but a goodie that I posted last July – “If libraries didn't exist, could you start one from scratch today?”
Books to Beers & Stacks to Snacks: Folkin' Librarian Edition
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 […]
E-Books, DRM and Other Things That Suck
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 […]