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I haven’t done a formal count or anything, but my gut tells me (sotto voce) I posted more about the fun things I did on the job at my former place of employment than I post about the place I currently hang my derby. I’m not interested in posting all the gorey details of my [...]
It’s a funny ol’ world, isn’t it? Just when you think an idea has run its course or become so commonplace that it’s nearly invisible, it comes back into the spotlight, like John Travolta. There seems to have been a resurgence of blog posting and discussion on Library 2.0–what is it? is it meaningful or [...]
It is a terrific bit of synchronicity that the same week MPOW has it’s big web launch, Unshelved features an hilarious storyline about redesigning the library website. I loved the entire week’s worth of strips.
Ladies and gentlemen, the day has arrived. May I humbly present to you the all-new, all-different…Johnson County Library website! (Humbly presented because I honestly had little to do with it besides giving a thumbs-up to various design factors and adding some content here and there. The lion’s share of the credit goes to the other [...]
So, do I really think public libraries are doomed? No, not really. “Doomed” is too strong a word for it. Or to be more precise, if libraries don’t change with the changing times, I think they’re doomed, but I have every reason to believe they will change. But as both a library employee and a [...]
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Looks like I’m not the only one. Maybe it’s a (dare I use the word?) zeitgeist thing*. On the very same day, Skagirlie laments that her OPAC sucks because it doesn’t do what Amazon, iTunes and LibraryThing do and Libraryman wonders why libraries don’t do what Pandora [...]
Michelle Boule brilliantly sums up Roy Tennant, John Blyberg, and Nicole Engard: Lip service is not the same as service! In other words, actions speak louder than words. Don’t talk the talk if you’re not willing to walk the walk. And y’know, as far as I’m concerned, that goes for ILS vendors and libraries. It [...]
Q: Josh, why are you excited to start your new job? A: Because, this is the kind of atmosphere I’ll be working in. How could I not be excited?
This has been preying on my mind for some weeks now, and I feel it’s finally time to get it off my chest: I hate the Dewey Decimal System. Wait, let me be more precise. I think the Dewey Decimal System works just fine for cataloging materials in a library. From a librarian’s point of [...]
My library was busy this afternoon. Mondays are usually busy, and today was no exception. The circulation desk had a crowd massed around it, and every station was staffed. Our regular middle schoolers were congregating around the computers and study tables, laughing and chatting. Little kids were milling around with their parents, who were conversing [...]
