Category: SLA

  • Listen closely: Can we bridge communication gaps?

    flickr photo shared by lizkentleon under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license Something I’ve been ruminating on for the past few weeks are communications issues I’ve been facing in my professional spheres where decorum and harmony matter quite a lot. One of the big issues with the SLA Recommendations Report was that it didn’t…

  • More thoughts on SLA: Love and Madness

    Well I’m back from SLA 2015, kind of caught up on sleep, and detoxed by going to the Alameda County fair and fairing it up. (Air brushed shirt? Check. Brick of curly fries? Check. Tigers Blood snow cone? Check. Tour the collections? Check. Also if you don’t understand why I’d get a shirt saying “Hate…

  • SLA Real Talk – It’s bad, so let’s do something.

    flickr photo shared by abernmf1 under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license I told some people I would write another blog post about what’s going on at SLA after the Open Board meeting (which should have been better attended). I write this as somebody who has been involved with the association and hopes to…

  • More coherent thoughts on the SLA Consultants’ Recommendations.

    flickr photo shared by Royal Free Archive Centre under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license It’s June, which means the club football seasons are over and it’s time for cricket! (At least in my narrow view of the world.) I’m using the sport metaphor here to haphazardly say I like being part of a…

  • My scattered thoughts on the SLA consultants’ Recommendations Report

    flickr photo shared by she was under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license I’ve been meaning to write up my thoughts about the SLA consultants’ Recommendations Report for a while, but I’ve been busy. The conference, and the board meeting where this will be discussed, is next week. Time’s running out. Here are my…