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Meredith has some good things to say about dealing with change averse organizations. I particularly like reading what she has to say because 1) I work with many people who are culturally similar in te
[Here's a cleaned-up version of brief remarks I made in a panel discussion on "Cultivating Digital Library Professionals," at Tuesday's IMLS Focus meeting in Washington, DC. The day-long conversation was meant to help shape a priority project at the Institute of Museum and Library Services:...
The argument is that training internal staff to become data scientists is a fallacy because such training is time-consuming, expensive, or impossible. If that is a fallacy, then any form of staff development is a fallacy. In my cynical viewpoint, I think many modern businesses do adopt this philosophy so perhaps it is a de facto fallacy because these businesses can’t tolerate the investment to develop staff.
Conferences are great. They’re a good way to make that fun face-to-face contact with your fellow professionals; to network, learn, and reflect. Sometimes they’re in really cool venues. …
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Chapter 3 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 50, no. 6) “Digital Media Labs in Libraries” will help you prepare for the unexpected through training staff and patrons and developing sound policies. The chapter lists resources for sample job descriptions, patron training, sample policies, and liability forms.
Those of us who were in the game early enough and who have managed to retain an over-arching generalist knowledge can't be replaced very easily because while absorbing most new information most of the time may have been possible when we began practice, no person starting from scratch can do that now. Serial specialization is now all that can be done in any practical way.
Priorities and blind spots.
good stuff about why workshops don't work, why you need "people to ask"
2% of salary budget (exclusive of benefits) should be spent on prof dev.
Intro has some pointed observations on the non-referentiality of "leadership," also competency lists.
What are your least favorite parts of library school? Your answer will depend on a lot of things, but one of the biggest factors in my personal likes and dislikes has been whether or not I’m good a…
Taking a page from the pedagogical playbook of Learn Code The Hard Way, it worked best for me when I tried to do something even if I didn’t understand everything when I got started. I followed a set of instructions through to a given goal, and then learned about what I’d done and how I’d done it after the fact.