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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 [...]
Inspired by David Lee King’s series of posts on “Inviting Participation,” I wrote a post for MPOW’s public blog in which I raised issues about our library and libraries in general, openly inviting people to respond. Being the hotspur that I am, I went ahead and published the post…and then thought, “Maybe I should’n’a done [...]
I was going to call this post “Knee Deep in the Hoopla,” but decided a Starship reference would be a crime against good taste. Anyhoo… MPOW’s general public blog has gotten a couple of comments. From patrons. Yes, patrons are actually reading our blogs and making comments. This makes me very very happy indeed, because [...]
I was sitting at my desk, minding my own business, when one of the Library Assistants came back and told me a man was asking for me. Was one of our regulars looking for me? Had a friend of mine stopped by to say hi? Nope. I walked out to the front and the LA [...]
On the eve of Election Day, MPOW’s teen blog has had a patron-submitted name chosen by patron vote. The blog has been dubbed “OPL Teen Hot Spot” and the YA librarians are now soliciting logo designs from our teen patrons!
The wiki taskforce we assembled to get our subject guide wiki up and running is made up of Library Assistants and Associates with little or no knowledge of HTML, wiki syntax or web design (except for one LA who is currently taking a class on web design). So, this has been a learning process for [...]
A woman asked me for help with the computers this afternoon. She was trying to apply for a job online, and the website wasn’t cooperating. While she wasn’t an internet whiz (she didn’t know she could tab from one field to the next, and instead would move the mouse to click on the next field), [...]
I’m feeling awfully puny (as my branch manager would say), but I’m here at work anyway, because Mondays are the days when I have to most time on the reference desk, and there’s no one else to cover it (what with other staff taking days off and people in training sessions for our big ILS [...]
