Last weekend was the busiest one I’ve had in a long time – the culmination of about two years’ work with a group of colleagues in organising the 5th New Librarians’ Symposium. The weather last weekend was uncharacteristically wet, wild and woolly (for a Perth September), but happily the symposium itself went off really well. [...]
In which I discover yet more things to learn, and realise how much I take the written medium for granted, and how utterly comfortable I am with it. Mal Booth has blogged about librarians’ strong affinity for print/text, and our traditions getting in the way and holding us back (how much can we drag along [...]
The other day I read something that I have been mulling over ever since. This is from the piece contributed by David L. Calhoun, chairman and CEO of the Nielsen Company in Katie Couric’s The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives (Random House, 2011). “…self-confidence is the most important characteristic of successful [...]