Fighting through the decline

  • Libraries and Weeding: Balancing the visceral and the necessary

    flickr photo shared by That Guy DouG under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license This week my local public library is in the news about its new weeding project. The director has tried to explain the project in another local website, but it’s the sort of thing that’s hard to do. Weeding is one of…

  • 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…