June 2008
The Archives
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Trends
Save the NAL!
It seems that federal libraries are always under attack from various foes. First the EPA library was almost dissolved, but SLA helped save it. Now the National Agricultural Library is being threatened by huge budget cuts which will limit their services and perhaps reduce it to EPA levels. Here is some more information about the [...]
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Observations
Antagonism and the Generation Gap
Yesterday I went to a session at SLA 2008 with a conversation about new “info pros”- talking about their jobs and their expectations. The audience was about half “experienced” librarians and half “fresh librarians”. The perspectives of the three panellists were interesting, but they weren’t Millenials- the generation range people seem most leery of. The [...]
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Uncategorized
Sell Yourself
I’ve been in something of a fog recently, which is why this blog is dead. Every time I had and idea for a post, I either wouldn’t have access or time to actually write it. I’ve not got much time now as it is, as I’m flying to Seattle tonight for SLA 2008. I’ll try [...]
