Archive for November, 2008
secret library book: letters to children
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 went outside, but then, I [...]
discovery on the network level - it’s too messy out here for customers
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 effing deluded but more importantly, [...]
nanofiboprowrimo
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 Everybody.
I recently finished them both, [...]
why i’m not discouraged: on greatness
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 me.
So here’s some of what [...]
“Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.”
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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Command-F by Rachel Bridgewater, Anne-Marie Deitering, Caleb Tucker-Raymond is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. 2008 ⌘f.
