The Other Librarian

There have been a few, ahem, debates going around and I could make a post on each of them, but things have just been too much in my home life recently, so I’m going to chime in one on one.
MLS or non-MLS?
My favorite call on this issue is coming from Dorothea Salo, but there [...]

Heather Morrison discusses what she calls an “access gap” for scholarly journals in public libraries.   She claims:
The local public library will have interlibrary loan service; however, with limited staffing looking after everything from storytime for preschoolers to special services for teens, adults, seniors, and more, not to mention buying books and running the library, the [...]

From the Myths On My Shoulders blog, the National Film Board of Canada has opened a Twitter account.
I’m a big advocate at watching what other industries do with services to see what might work for libraries.   While in its infancy, I am pretty interested to see what the Film Board will use the account [...]

Too bad LISNews only mentioned 10 blogs in their list. 

TLA
What it stands for: Three-Letter-Acronym
What it should stand for: Lazy Coder’s Obfustication Device
How to recognize it: Three letters; used in place of actual words without explanation.
What it does: Makes computer geeks feel a little bit more sophisticated than they really are.
What a librarian needs to know [...]

There have been lots of exciting things happening in my life these days, which means I have backlog of the things I would most like to write about.    Expect January to be busier with my blog than December was.
But, to tide you over until then, I think these Kids Help Phone reports are invaluable [...]

I found this to be an interesting quote from Tim Sanders, who wrote The Likeability Factor, in a news article I read today.
“In this bloggable, cell phone camera world, your brand on the inside is going to be your brand on the outside. If you have a bunch of jerks, your brand is going to [...]

This is kind of like the “day in the life of” except it is a “night in the life of.” I can’t remember the times, but consider that most of this stuff happened between 8pm last night (Tuesday) until I posted the final blog post today.

I logged onto Meebo for fun.
I chatted [...]

 
Designing an organization is not something that managers should take on without a good deal of thought. Unfortunately, the coverage of organizational design in library management courses is often simplified to a toying around with two organizational dichotomies: flat or hierarchical; centralized or decentralized. The impression you get from such a surface [...]

Now that Microsoft has released a Surface based computer, I thought it was time that I thought about how people would actually use the thing. Sure the examples of moving pictures around and finger painting are kind of neat, but how does it get people to information?
Some of the things that immediately [...]