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For twenty years, I’ve been teaching library staff best practices in reference and information and referral interviewing. It’s been way longer that I’ve been practicing reference work, and “practice” here comprises both repetition for the sake of skill building and working with comers who want and need the service (think medical or legal “practice”, just [...]
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There is no longer any credible argument that a range of tech skills aren’t important to 21st century literacy. Yet one worry/concern/unhappiness I often hear from public library staff is frustration with trying to teach folks how to navigate various databases and distinguish the user’s perceptions of databases from the World Wide Web. Maybe reviewing [...]
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Over the weekend, I spent a couple hours in discussion with three lawyers, one practicing, one retired from an academic career, and a third disillusioned and in the throes of considering other vocational options. At some point, the talk turned to classification–within library systems of materials and, in hyper-contrast (?), by the Nazis of populations–and [...]
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Here at Infopeople, the new year brings a generous buffet of free webinars, high ROI online courses, and a variety of special projects. You’ll continue to hear about these from time to time right here on the Infoblog.
This blog, of course, is one form of social media we use to spread news, ideas and [...]
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I’m excited to be attending the R-Squared conference in Telluride! I have been trying to write about my expectations for this conference but while I am excited, I also don’t have any expectations so I’m going to write about what I’m excited about.
Location
This will be my first visit to Telluride and my [...]
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Readers of the London-based Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s online factsheet “Aligning learning to the needs of the organization,” written by Valerie Anderson, will miss plenty of training gems if they don’t follow some of the links to earlier papers on related themes.
One, for example, leads [...]
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It’s no surprise to trainers that aligning strategic plans with training plans makes sense; the real news is that the London-based Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has released a detailed factsheet which, through a series of links imbedded in the text, serves as an easy-to-read primer useful to trainers, learners, and [...]
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Carole Leita’s Infoblog post earlier this week draws attention to a myth-breaking report from University College London (UCL), the British Library, and the Joint Information Systems Committee: Information Behavior of the Researcher of the Future. Her post also makes me think about the current behavior [...]
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One of the more innovative efforts at attracting new, ethnically diverse groups of employees to libraries will formally end in Spring 2008, but plenty of online documentation will remain for those interested in trying this successful model.
Initially started in 2003 by the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) with Institute of [...]
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