Tag Archives: optimism
Information (&) Poverty
Information, poverty, and information poverty are all distinct but related concepts, and it’s been the focus of a lot of research I’ve done while in graduate school. With the G-20 summit in London about to kickoff, I felt it was a good time to share a handful of articles describing the links between literacy, libraries, the economy, [...]
Predictions for 2009: SNS Edition
With the end of the year around the corner, here are my predictions for what the social web will look like in 2009. Some of these are kind of “well, duh,” but I think they still deserve to be said.
MySpace will continue to be dominated by socio-commercial interests, a site more for promotion than for [...]
On Tackling the Thanksgiving Holidays
My head has been swimming with ideas, but I’m still trying to get them down on paper, due to general end-of-semester distractions. With things being busy and crazy, I’m thankful to have Mel as a guest-blogger. Certainly, this was the kind of advice I needed to hear, at least so that I can make it [...]
I voted yesterday
I got in line at 9:15 (having left work immediately after an early morning staff meeting) to cast my vote at the community center around the corner from my library. By that time, a long line of people, bundled-up but still shivering, was already ahead of me, wrapped around the front of the building and [...]
“The Disconnected”
There’s a downright important article in this month’s Library Journal that everyone — and I mean everyone – should read: “The Disconnected: Who these 3.8 million people are, and why libraries need to help them”
From the article,
Ultimately, these factors create insuperable economic and social challenges for this group that we, as librarians, cannot ignore. Beyond [...]
Riot Rule #4: “Always be learning.”
Mel has a picture frame on one of the walls in her apartment, with a number of inspirational, motivational, and humorous quotations that she selected and arranged herself. One of my favorites is, “The best reason: we might learn something.”
In planning the activities for our summer reading program, I decided that it would be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Adaptation
I have a soft spot in my heart for children’s literature. Even if it can seem naive, there’s often wonderful pearls of wisdom for adults in pages meant for children. I came across this particular pearl last night in Lulu Atlantis and the Quest for True Blue Love by Patricia Martin. The [...]