Monthly Archives: May, 2008
Our business
“Personally, I don’t see the library as being in the information business. In fact, I don’t see us in the service business anymore either. We’re in the inspiration business, and everything that we do should drive their success.”
- Brian Mathews, User Experience Librarian at Georgia Tech
Coping
I’ve been stuck on the couch for the past couple days, and I’ll probably still be here for at least the next few. Basically, I sprained my lower back really badly, and I’ve been prescribed muscle relaxants and narcotic painkillers. I feel bad, too, because with summer upon us, the library is entering [...]
Good advice
“If you want to be a good archaeologist, get out of the library.”
- Henry “Indiana” Jones, Junior, in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Today
These days, I’m all about the little victories and accentuating the positive, at least when it comes to my own personal and professional life. I usually don’t like to blog too much about myself, but I think today warrants an exception.
With that said…
Today, a coworker acknowledged something about the dynamics of our workplace that [...]
Watching the sky
No, I’m not referring to the tornado warning that shut down my library yesterday evening. Instead, I’m referring to the fact that a handful of my favorite websites, for whatever reason, aren’t working. It’s probably all unrelated, but it’s still a bit worrisome.
I did learn that Twitter can be very useful in a [...]
I can haz muxtape?
So if you’ve got a few minutes to kill or just want some background music while you’re working on something else, check out the library riot muxtape. It didn’t end up being quite as riotous as I expected — but it’s a still a pretty sweet mix, if I do say so myself. [...]
Road Trip! – San Francisco PL
A couple weeks ago I took a well-deserved week off and went on my first real trip by myself — kind of a big deal for me, especially since I’d never been on a plane without at least a friend or coworker with me. Anyway, in addition to checking out the Museum of Modern [...]
Change and possibility
“A true act creates the conditions of its own possibility. That is to say, it appears impossible, you do it, and the whole field changes: it’s possible.”
- Slavoj Žižek, during today’s Democracy Now
Discovered via One Big Library.
Library fashionistas
The revolution will not be blogged, but it will be fashionable.
In case you’ve got some loose cash and you’re dying for some library-related additions to your wardrobe, check out the the library riot store on Cafe Press.
And no, I’m not just caving to capitalism or looking to make a buck. Honestly, I’ll be surprised if [...]
Getting graphic
I’ve been pondering this for a while. I’ve already got my thoughts on the subject, but I’m curious about what the rest of you think.
For the sake of this discussion, let’s look at two recently published titles: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko (a book imparting career advice, with text by Daniel H. Pink and [...]