If you're a nextgen librarian, this clip will likely make you feel all tingly! (See also: Web 2.0 – The Machine Is Us/ing Us)
Today was our library region's AGM and, though it fell on a different day (April 5 this year, March 31 last year), in my mind this marks one year that I've been with Southeast Regional since that was the day that I officially started. It's funny to think back to that first day – just […]
Part of the reason that some librarians prefer to call patrons “customers” is that they believe in ideas such as “the customer is always right”. But here's a good list of Five Reasons Why “The Customer is Always Right” is Wrong. We run more than 3 million people through our books every month. One or […]
Amy Buckland (who was recently named a 2008 Library Journal “Mover and Shaker”) has passed along the following notice which is also a great opportunity to highlight some of the emerging leaders in the library community. Why not take a moment to nominate someone you know who fits the following criteria? LAST CALL for emerging […]
A recent post on Librarian.net reminded me that this year's list of Library's Journal's 2008 Movers & Shakers is now out. Congrats to Amy Buckland for getting the nod! (<old man voice>I remember when Amy was just a wee lass, firing off e-mails to library school-focused blogs asking about the merits of various schools.</old man […]
The Globe and Mail recently had an article on the benefits of reading and good literacy to your health (PDF). This is probably not a huge surprise but lines like “While we obsess about our weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, the single best predictor of good health and longevity is probably literacy.” are pretty […]
Each year, our library system gives out four awards to our branches – one for Service, one for Programming, one for Branch Development and one for Branch of the Year which incorporates elements of all three plus more. Right now, I'm working through nearly 200 quarterly reports (48 branches x 4 reports per year) to […]
LibraryThing is already a wicked cool service but it's getting better all the time. One of their latest features is LibraryThing Local which is “a new [LibraryThing] sub-site devoted to finding, mapping and describing the world's bookstore, library, book fair and festival—as well as all the readings, signings, lectures and other events they host.” Here […]
MetaFilter has a good discussion on the death of libraries, this time about a library in the UK. “Hendon's library's opening hours have been cut, a cafe has taken the place of part of the fiction section, and a computer learning zone has replaced the periodicals room. When I complained, a local councillor wrote back […]
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that I've been on the road for the past two months doing computer and Internet training at our various branches around SE Saskatchewan (for anyone who doesn't know about our territory, if you draw a straight line from Regina east to the Manitoba border and […]
