This afternoon on Twitter, I retweeted a link @clairebrooks shared, to an article entitled 100 Articles that Every Journalist Should Read. I don’t know all that much about journalism as a profession, but I do know that, like librarianship, journalists are facing paradigm-shifting times at the moment, where all the traditional, familiar and accepted practices [...]
Had coffee with my old boss the other day (he who got me looking into blogging), and was reminded of some of the things I have learned over the last ten or so years as a librarian. “No one’s going to die.” This was said to me by a very wise library technician who’d seen [...]
VALA2010: great conference. Stuff I am pondering: We in libraries need to learn from other organisations. What can we learn about the organisation of our service points from Apple stores, say? How does the Louvre make its amazing collections available to its visitors? Our library websites need major overhauls – and we need to think [...]