July 2008
The Archives
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Trends
That Retirement Thang.
This week’s Uncontrolled Vocabulary will discuss the retirement issue: Do senior librarians have a moral obligation to retire? It’s a sticky question, both in academia and libraries. Do newcomers to the profession have a right to jobs? Not necessarily, but it’s hard to think people will stick around for any length of time if they [...]
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Observations
DDC aint for me.
Today LIS News asked “Do we Dewey?”, which was originally from a New York Times blog called Papercuts. It’s a small thing, I know. And I still love libraries. But isn’t it time to replace Dewey with something more usefully up to date? Papercuts blogger Gregory Cowels wonders if something like the bookstore model would [...]
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Observations
Surveys about libraries
This week I was asked to participate in a phone poll about an issue on the November ballot. I assumed it would be about Proposition 8- the amendment to ban Gay marriage. Instead it was a 20 minute poll about the proposed bond for the Berkeley public library branches. It reminded me that I never [...]
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Library School
Should you go to library school?
It seems weird that this past week a number of different people have asked me for advice about applying to library school. Not so much where to apply, since there’s only one school in the area, but more about what to expect and if they should do it. I couldn’t bring myself to enthusiastically say, [...]
