Tomorrow morning I’ll go to Denver to the Innovative Users Group conference. I’m learn a bit more about customizing our OPAC interface; meet some people to help me jack it up before I explode it.
I’ve been doing a bit of searching about non-conference activites and am particularly looking forward to Body Worlds at the [...]

What does a scholar do the day after they complete their MLIS coursework? Why, sign up for Library Thing, of course. It wasn’t, afterall, purchased by WalMart but it inspired this kiddo to start forming even stronger opinions about library OPAC functionality. Why, for instance, do we differentiate the OPAC from the [...]

Librarians are powerful people. We have skills that no other profession can boast. I’m sure we’ve all had that cringing, face-scrunching, apologetic look when we tell a new person we’re librarians, “Oh, I’m sorry… you’re going to be out of work soon, right?” Or, my favorite: “They still have librarians? That’s [...]

I have a close friend who’s a reference librarian in a public library. A patron recently asked who Carrie Fisher’s mother is. Well trained and skilled at choosing the most appropriate resource in all situations, he turned to Google. And queried: Carrie Fisher’s mother. While one has come to expect searches [...]

For a number of months, I’ve been talking to, although she would probably say AT, the director of my favorite public library, Cook Memorial in Tamworth, NH about social software, remote services, and the important opportunity that they have to be forward thinking. Being small makes rural libraries nimble and able to respond to [...]