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?

Buying Biases

No matter how aware you are of them, inevitably when you are charged with buying non-fiction for your library, your personal preferences will creep through.  We had a

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

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

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

Pace's First Word(s)

We were at our family farm last weekend for a family reunion.  Shea was standing with Pace and one of my aunts.  “What's that?” the aunt said pointing

10 Questions That Every Intelligent Christian Must Answer

This video, from the web site “Why Doesn't God Heal Amputees?“, poses some provocative questions.  Or perhaps we should just be calling for a Truce on Religion?  (Oh,

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