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 [...]
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. … This type of frustration I heard echoed in almost every [...]
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 Stephen’s [...]
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 of change are [...]
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 Song. I [...]
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