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QR Codes At The Tipping Point?
This article about New York City putting QR codes on all of their building permits caught my attention. I found it interesting that a government agency was adopting this technology. QR codes are pretty...
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How Libraries Can Leverage Twitter
Twitter has been working pretty well at our library. It is coming up on two years since our first tweet. I have been thinking a lot lately about how we use Twitter and our successes and shortcomings...
View ArticleServing Users and The Element of Surprise
Every year we have a library retreat at the Inn at Shelburne Farms. It’s a really relaxing, reflective environment and it’s always productive. This week, one of the conversations that we were having...
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The Tao of Librarianship
Taoism is, among other things, a philosophy that originated in China in the 3rd or 4th century BCE. It began with Lao Tzu’s writing of the Tao Te Ching and is still around today. It is a philosophy...
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On Leadership in Libraries
photo by NELLS participant Kathleen Spahn This past week I attended the New England Library Leadership Symposium facilitated by Maureen Sullivan in North Andover, MA. She lead a challenging and...
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Our Questions Create The Future
image via greeblie on Flickr I read Brian Mathews’ new white paper Think Like a Startup on Friday, and it was an inspiring end to the week. If you haven’t read it yet, go do it (and I’d love to hear...
View ArticlePositive Vision and Questions in Libraries
“All we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” -Buddha “A vivid imagination compels the whole body to obey it.” -Aristotle I just began a 6 week...
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5 Ways to Start Leading Right Now
image via jaqueline-w on Flickr When I was at a session on leadership at the Rhode Island Library Association conference, someone in the audience raised a question that I’ve thought a lot about myself:...
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What’s Right With Libraries?
image via DyanaVphotos on Flickr There are no shortage of problems in librarianship. Publisher’s and libraries are wrangling over ebooks. Higher education and the academy is under siege. There are...
View ArticleGetting Started With Social Media For Your Library
I occasionally get emails from people who have seen my more popular posts about library social media including: Four Reasons Libraries Should be on Social Media, How Libraries Can Leverage Twitter, and...
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