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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss a couple of pieces of information that they have recently encountered. The first item is an article from The New Yorker about Clayton Christensen’s explorations into why big businesses fail. The other is the announcement of a new service from [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan talk about bosses. While it’s easy to gripe about bosses, George and Joan take a deeper look and explore the idea that the problem isn’t always just the boss – it can also be the employee and/or the workplace. Are you [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss (in their own inimitable way) and article that appeared in Time magazine on March 17, 10 Ideas That Will Change the World.
Looking at trends, they agree, makes us look at how we do things and [...]
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For this installment of “George and Joan Thinking Out Loud,” Joan was unable to make the recording session, so George interviews a veteran librarian.
George makes reference to this site and to this site during the podcast.
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss an article that George recently read in the magazine Fast Company, The Great Tech War of 2012. The article predicts an upcoming battle for supremacy among Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook in the markets for smartphones, [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take a look at IT in libraries – more specifically, about the relationship between library culture and IT culture. What do libraries look for when hiring IT people? What sorts of skills are needed? What might be reasonable expectations for libraries [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, Joan starts things off by relating her experience at a recent League of California Cities conference. A panel she moderated got on the topic of underutilized library skills and this topic provides the grist for a lively discussion.
Among the underutilized library [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan suggest that librarians devote less of their energy to formatting the “right” answers when writing requests for proposals (or requests for information) and more care and thought to asking the right questions.
During the podcast, they mention a Wayne County Library [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan (in the same location for once!) discuss the realities of circulation statistics. What if customers could define their own loan periods? Do shorter loan periods artificially inflate circ stats? How good a measure of library usage are circulation statistics? How much [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take on the issue of staying motivated. It’s a problem we all face at various times in our lives. They explore several things that can help us all stay engaged in all aspects of our lives. Among them: feeling connected, feeling [...]
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