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In this podcast George and Joan put on their futurist hats and ponder the question, “How would a library accommodate a post-print culture in the future?” Is a library without books still be a library? What defines a library? Is it the books and materials that make the library, or is [...]
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In the spirit of the season, and giving credit to Francis Pharcellus and the New York Sun, George and Joan offer this holiday podcast and answer the question, “Is there a future for libraries?” with a resounding “YES!”
Happy holidays from Infopeople!
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This podcast idea came about as a result of consulting work George and Joan recently did in Northern California. The library system they were working with was at risk of closure due to county budget issues. As they worked, George and Joan started to ponder what services MUST remain for a [...]
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In this latest edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan riff on a topic that came to George’s mind after reading an article in the New Yorker entitled The Next Level, by James Surowiecki (October 18, 2010). The article looks at what happened to Blockbuster and how they [...]
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In this special extended edition of George and Joan, Thinking Out Loud, we share George and Joan’s closing talk at this year’s Eureka! Leadership Institute. While the talk was aimed at the departing Eureka fellows, the message was important enough to share as an extended podcast. What is the [...]
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George and Joan are involved in lots of library projects that require evaluations of one sort or another. And in their opinion, some are better than others. What are the best ways to measure, among other things, the community impact of a library project? Rather than look at traditional outcome measures, in
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan and their guest Paula Singer talk about the nature of library employer-employee relationships in the 21st century. Their discussion comes out of an article Paula wrote for her newsletter (PDF format) on How Human Resources Makes Your [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss the role libraries should be playing in the care and maintenance of Wikipedia. George heard Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit charitable organization that operates Wikipedia), speak at the Canadian Library Association. She related [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take on what they call “the classic objections” – things that libraries say to avoid taking risks or making changes. Why? Joan says it stems from a lack of confidence in their area(s) of expertise, and the dreaded “What if it [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan talk about cycles, as in the ebb and flow of various things (good and bad) that happen in libraryland. Everything changes, everything evolves, and things inevitably move forward not back. I’m not doing the topic justice: you’ll just have to listen [...]
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