I made a somewhat cryptic reference to a special project I'd been given in a previous post on My 10 Favourite Things About My New Job. At the time, I said “I'm not going to talk too much about it here yet but I've been given a special project to work on that is about […]
…and it just might be Evergreen. The University of Windsor is listed as one of the organizations involved with this open source ILS so if anybody who did a co-op there has thoughts (or anybody else who's familiar with Evergreen via other channels), I'd love to hear what you think. Useless trivia of the day: […]
A couple fun visual sites…The Most Unusual Books of the World Fifteen Word Illusions And a bonus deep thought for the day: “As a librarian, you can be idealistic. As a manager, you must be pragmatic.”
When my boss came to Southeast Regional Library as their new director fifteen years ago, one of the first things he did was go out and work an actual front-line shift in a few of our branches to get a sense of the workload, what was effective in how our system operated, what wasn't and […]
At work, I was asked to do some advocacy work on behalf of the Saskatchewan Library Trustees’ Association in advance of the upcoming provincial election which happens on November 7.(Okay, I didn’t get to have any actual input myself – I was mainly doing the grunt work of setting up a mailing list and coordinating […]
Here's an announcement that went out today about a project I've been volunteering on for the last six months or so. There's always going to be small things you'd change but overall, the new site is a big improvement on what the CLA had before and I'm proud to have been a part of this […]
Librarian Chick provides an exhaustive list of online resources for students and librarians in the academic environment – from audio books to test taking and everything in between. She also has a Learning Center that lets you search for free educational information, sites, games and software online. Finally, to complete the trifecta of excellent resources, […]
Inventory control is a huge issue no matter the size of your library. But if your library is one the world's largest research institutions with 135 million items in its collection, the problems of the typical library get multiplied at an exponential rate. According to the article linked to above, the Library of Congress has […]
One of the big ways that librarians amuse themselves is debating whether to call the people who come into their buildings “patrons”, “clients” or “customers”. (I wish I was joking about this. I'm not.) I happen to be firmly in the “patron” camp but do recognize that each term does have reasons why librarians choose […]
Would you work for this library? I would in a heartbeat. (See the end of the post for the Internet company I cribbed this hiring manifesto from. I've re-worded it so it sounds like a library wrote it.)Our Library delights peopleIt is satisfying to work at a company that people love. When you wear Library […]
