Archive for November, 2008
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
In fits of melancholy, I get up from my desk and pace in the stacks. I walk around the floor and try avert my eyes when I get near patrons at their computers. To distract myself, I look at books instead. I suppose it might be easier if I just ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Rachel said:
"So, yeah, when I hear all the stuff about trying to make our libraries more like businesses and trying to make our patrons more like customers it makes me despair. Despair because, for one, if we seriously think we can compete with commercial booksellers at their game we’re seriously ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
A few months ago, I went to a professional conference and was inspired, or at least interested enough, by the keynote speaker and conversations with friends that I went and placed holds on a pair of non-fiction titles at my library: Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational and Clay Shirkey's Here Comes ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Okay, so I had a version of this post all ready to go for a while. It was entitled "why i'm discouraged part 3". But, I'm really not discouraged anymore. In fact, I'm pretty much the opposite of discouraged. I feel energized to a degree that actually kind of shocks ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
I don't have many heroes and I lost one yesterday when Studs Terkel died. Good-bye Studs, who will tell our stories now?
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