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Every week, I have the opportunity–often the opportunities–to provide on-the-spot reference services at a local coffee shop. Among other morning caffeine inhalers on hand as I make use of my own most portable electronics, some shyly ask about the rudiments of choosing and/or using specific creation-enabled tools (iPad, smartphone) . Others ask for help altering [...]
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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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Thanks to the California State Library’s Rush Brandis, many of us received this presentation in email form today. The story told by these new figures, and suggested applications for creating a responsive information future, include an array encompassing health, education and much more besides commerce and entertainment.
In one interesting section of [...]
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Keeping your community on the move and engaged can’t happen if you stick to the planning stages of whatever strategic changes you know are necessary to keep development a reality. Yes, careful planning is important; but there comes a point when “careful” gives way to a kind of scrupulosity that means “stalling.” You and/or the [...]
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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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In this podcast, George & Joan conclude their three-part series discussing a checklist they’ve developed on strategic thinking.
The first podcast addressed the question, “Will it show?” The second podcast asked, “Can it grow?” This third podcast addresses the question, “Does it flow?”
Questions asked in this podcast:
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In this podcast, George & Joan continue a three-part series discussing a checklist they’ve developed on strategic thinking. The first podcast asked the question, “will it show?” This second podcast asks the question, “can it grow?”
How do you decide what activities have a future? And once you make that determination, [...]
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Two of the library community’s leading consultants and thinkers, Joan Frye Williams and George Needham, will be providing guidance on how all of us can better understand and respond to the goals and priorities of our communities, employees, and colleagues through the latest offering in Infopeople’s “Building [...]
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