From the monthly archives: February 2012
In my Edgy Librarian webinar on Culture Shift in Libraries, I asked the question “Does it feel like, all of a sudden, everyone is talking about the need to be creative and innovative?” Most of the people on the webinar responded “yes.” Much of the webinar covered why this is so, and what to do [...]
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I was reading the SF State University Magazine today. There’s an article about an historian who wrote a graphic novel about a court trial of a slave woman named Albina in late 19th century West Africa: the kind of history that’s hard to find because of the dearth of records kept. He wanted to make [...]
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In this podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart reports on the appointment of America’s new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Walter Dean Myers. He also looks at some new words and phrases that entered our vocabulary in 2011, and talks about the great mystery writer Agatha Christie!
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Yesterday’s Edgy Librarian conference brought several refreshing ideas into focus for me: the ever-increasing requirement that libraries and library staff forego developing expertise for developing flexibility, the role of libraries in making the National Information Standards Organization‘s theoretical decisions both practical and forward-looking, and the teamwork approach taken to [...]
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