Last night I got to hear Stephen Abram talk about the future of SLA & librarianship. First (and most important) I have uploaded my pictures to Flickr.
Stephen started with a mini rant (a good rant) about the fact that there is no proof that the book is at risk. Reading stats are going [...]

Yikes!
Via LibraryBytes & Biocultural Science & Management

From Lorcan Dempsey:
OCLC distributed around 2 million printed catalog cards last year. They are still being used ….
I understand that there are some libraries that just can’t afford monolithic library systems - but there are so many affordable options out there today - why would so many libraries still be using cards?

Thanks to Judith for pointing out Kathy’s editorial from the most recent issue of CIL.
“In the library world, many processes are still done the way they were years ago. The old adage ‘because we’ve always done it that way’ still holds sway, and entangled layers of bureaucracy can make real change incredibly slow, if no [...]

This from a post on the NY Times Bits blog:
In less than 14 months, any traditional television set still connected to its antenna will receive nothing but static, as the broadcasting industry cuts over completely to its new digital frequencies.
A recent poll by the marketing arm of the cable industry shows that most people still [...]

I’m catching up on my podcasts (mostly because I had to take the train into the city today) and I got to listen to a great IT Conversation with Jeff Bonforte from Yahoo!.
Jeff starts out by telling us that anger is the most untapped emotion in start ups and innovation - and that’s unfortunate because [...]

Richard Wallis has a post at Panlibus about an article found via the BBC regarding the Open Library project.
My favorite quote:
As with the rest of society, the fear of something nasty happening can be far more corrosive that the possibility of it happening.
Maybe I should give you a little bit of background. This was [...]

Tim at LibraryThing has a short - and very to the point post at Thingology.
I have seen the future of libraries: It is to spend the future discussing the future of libraries.
I had to give a sad giggle at this post …
I don’t have much to add, but I do agree with commenter James:
Luckily I [...]

My first (official) book review has been published in Info Career Trends.
I read Managing Change: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians by Susan Carol Curzon. It was a handy guide and very timely considering the changes happening all around us. Read my review and if you like the way it sounds, read [...]

At CIL David Lee King gave an amazing talk on Guiding Information Pros Through Change.
I mentioned in my summary that David started out with a few questions for the audience:
First, I asked if attendees had learned something innovative or new at the conference that they'd like to take back to their libraries. Almost everyone raised [...]

Helene Blowers has a great post summing up what she learned at CIL - and it’s not pretty.
My CIL experience this year was bittersweet and I find myself personally leaving with a lot more unanswered questions and frustrations than new ideas and inspirations.
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This type of frustration I heard echoed in almost every conversation (but thankfully [...]

I’ve been writing about change a lot lately - and while at CIL this year I was informed of an article by Stephen Abram titled “Change - Arrghhhhh!.” I shared the article on my Facebook page and was promptly pointed to a post that links to all of the people who weren’t happy with [...]

David Lee King gave an amazing talk on handling change within our libraries. He started by asking a few questions and reading a few quotes. The first question was how many of us have had a hard time changing things in our libraries - lots of hands were raised. Then what kinds [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a Library Connect event hosted by PALINET. The topic was “What’s Next? - Embracing Change” - the perfect topic for me!
In his introduction, John Tagler, VP of Customer Marketing, Academic & Gov’t Libraries at Elsevier said we’re all dealing with change and we have to “face it [...]

Darlene Fichter added a new quote to her Facebook page - and I just love it!!!
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.
– General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
Awesome!

We all talk about change, but what encourages you to push through the pain and fear associated with change? I have a song by the Indigo Girls that got me through a lot of tough times when I was younger and has stuck with me through the years. The song is The Wood [...]