Wayne Bivens-Tatum, a Princeton librarian and the blogger of Academic Librarian, wrote a post “Nothing is the Future” a few days ago, which resulted in many comments including the very excellent one from Tim Spalding at LibraryThing. In his comment in Thingology, Tim Spalding warns about a potential misreading of Bivens-Tatum’s post suggesting that people [...]
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Praise for Librarians?
I was reading this book review by ricklibrarian today morning. The review was about Marilyn Johnson’s new book, This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. In the book review, it was stated “most librarians knock themselves out serving their clients regardless of pay, institutional support, or appreciation from society at [...]
Libraries – Organizational Culture
Libraries often talk about changes. But for an organization that aspires to achieve a significant transformation from a real-time learning and information center, there seems to be not so much discussion about the change of organizational culture. Even at libraries where librarians are appointed as faculty rather than staff, there is often a strict hierarchy [...]
If the Help Desk thinks your question is stupid,
This is so totally hilarious, it deserves to get its own blog post I think. Enjoy!!! Source: http://digg.com/d310et4 ; http://imgur.com/E9ppQ.jpg