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Category Archives: workplace
Is the Writing on the Wall?
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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 […]
The People Have Chosen
Monday, November 6, 2006
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!
Stumbling Towards Growth
Friday, October 27, 2006
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 […]
Patrons are the Funniest People
Friday, October 20, 2006
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), […]
Like a Dog
Monday, October 16, 2006
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 […]
Libraries Unlimited
Friday, October 6, 2006
At this point, I’m sure everyone who reads this blog is aware of the opinion piece “Libraries are limited, obsolete” in the Lawrence, KS, Journal-World. The piece breaks my heart and angers my soul. But, honestly, talking about it in blogs doesn’t really do much good. (It’s not “strategic,” to quote Karen G. Schneider.) This […]
OPL Blogs are Go!
Sunday, October 1, 2006
It’s been more of a wait than impatient l’il ol’ me would’ve liked, but the public blogs for MPOW are officially open! The main blog is called “Hoopla,” and we also have a Children’s Department blog (”Around the Corner“), a Young Adult blog (currently called “Teen Blog” until the winner of the YA contest names […]
Lemme Hear Some Chatter Out There!
Friday, August 25, 2006
My supervisor, the branch manager, is very very cool and a great boss for any number of reasons, but one of the reasons is that she’s very supportive of my efforts to bring current tech into common use at the library. However, she is admittedly easily overwhelmed by a lot of new tech. Bringing in […]
Moving Slowly to Instant
Thursday, August 24, 2006
A while back, I was griping about not being able to chat via IM at work. Well, the times they are a-changin’ at MPOW. Thanks to one of my coworkers, we’re starting to use IM at work. It started with the adult reference staff at the main library, then I jumped on, and now they’ve […]