In his essay in this week’s Chronicle, Todd Gilman shares his “Four Habits of Highly Effective Librarians“. Having followed some of Stephen Covey’s work the title immediately captured my attention. Gilman’s take on Covey’s advice suggests that by adopting four behaviors we can be more effective in the workplace. Those behaviors are openess, responsiveness, collaboration [...]

This past Friday I attended the LACUNY (Librarians Association of the City University of New York) Institute 2007. On hand were two speakers from the University of Rochester Library, Nancy Foster and David Lindahl. ACRLog has previously posted about projects in which both Foster and Lindahl are involved. Foster, as Lead Anthropologist at the River [...]

Mark Helprin has a truly odd commentary in the Times today – complaining that his copyrights will be stripped from his heirs seventy years after he trips the light fantastic. Other property can’t be stolen like this. He faults the framers for mistakenly believing ideas will be served if rights are held for a limited [...]

Julie Elliott has an interesting article in the most recent issue of RUSQ on academic libraries and reading promotion. (Yes, I’m quoted in it, but don’t let that put you off.)
Indulging in a fondness for books has become a contested territory. People think of books as our “brand” even though libraries offer much more. [...]

Now that most of our students have left for the summer, it is time to start tackling summer projects. One summer project will be to redo the student staff training sessions that workers receive in the fall. Developing training modules is something that I wish would have been given more opportunity to develop [...]