Interesting piece in the Chron about how “Library Renovation Leads to Soul Searching at Cal Poly.” A lot of libraries are looking for ways to add more space for students to do the multiple things they want to do in libraries – study, socialize, write papers, do homework, daydream, and even occasionally use library materials. [...]

There’s a good read in the Wall Street Journal today (free access – yeah!) that will catch the attention of any blogger – and I know we’ve got a fair number of bloggers among our readers. It’s about the vacation dilemma. What do you do when it’s time to get away for a week or [...]

The Internet is full of time-wasters, and repeated studies have pointed to the Internet’s negative impact on workplace efficiency. If employees want to do their online shopping during work hours or wile away the hours on YouTube or game playing, that’s not of much concern to our profession. But when I read that professionals are [...]

I have often been puzzled by conference or workshops speakers who recommend techniques for optimizing the academic library web site so as to increase the likelihood that search engine users would find the library home page. Why would a student or faculty member use a search engine to find my library’s web site? Shouldn’t they [...]

I keep noting interesting things to read, and all of them appear to be about one of two things: this intriguing new digital world of ours holds all kinds of exciting potential – or digitization is fraught with moral, economic, legal, and cultural risk. On the positive side, there’s Richard Ekman’s editorial in the Washington [...]