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The Involved Academic Library Administrator
Becoming an academic library administrator brings many changes to one’s career. It typically means leaving behind old job responsibilities while adopting a new set of challenges. For many of us who’ve moved into administration from a public services position that typically means giving up the reference desk and classroom for planning, budgeting and other management [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 24th, 2009 under Administration/Leadership, Uncategorized.
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The Real-Time Library
Librarians across all sectors of the profession have spent considerable time discussing and analyzing the impact of Web 2.0 and what it means to have a Web 2.0 influenced library. Here at ACRLog we first acknowledged Web 2.0 in December 2005. Since then we’ve offered a number of posts about academic libraries using 2.0 technologies [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 25th, 2009 under Technology Issues, Uncategorized.
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I Never Fell Off The Turnip Wagon
It looks like my attempt at providing some humor here at ACRLog may have gone a bit awry. Last week I wrote a post that was clearly intended to mock a bogus web site listing a completely absurd list of so-called predictions about the future of higher education. I was totally aware that this site [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 11th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Tapping Your Inner Entrepreneur
Are you a Librarian Entrepreneur? You might be. Would you answer “yes” to these questions:
I am an opportunist.
I am a creative genius (or part of a creative work team)
I am persistent
I am customer focused
I connect the dots
I am passionate
I am a risk taker
According to my research in preparation for a talk at Inspiration, Innovation, Celebration: [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 24th, 2009 under Conference Blogging, Innovation, Uncategorized.
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Action-Reflection Action-Reflection
The ACRL final keynote speech was my first opportunity to hear from Ira Glass, the host of the public radio program This American Life. Glass used his presentation to give us a feel for how he puts together both his radio show and the stories he features there. There were many fans in the audience, [...]
Posted by StevenB on April 28th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 5