A Wandering Eyre

I am still trying to figure out how to plan my work, house, and napping needs around the hours of my day. I think I am finally getting an idea of what is and is not possible in a 24 hour period for the stay-at-home Jane. I am catching up on some much needed reading [...]

General Disclaimer: My soon-to-be FPOW is by no means unique when it comes to academic libraries. After talking, and sometimes grumping, with librarians from many different academic libraries, I have come to the conclusion that MPOW is the middle of the pack when it comes to both good and bad organizational themes. It is not [...]

Penelope Trunk wrote a great post on why women are not as concerned with “taking time off” to have kids as some people think. I am not expecting “time off” from anything. Raising kids is a full-time job. I do not agree with everything Penelope Trunk has to say on her blog, but much of [...]

The not so good bits being two things I did not see but heard a lot about about one thing for which I was present and accounted for. Most of my complaints about ALA Midwinter are about things having to do with the division in which I spend most of my time: LITA. As we [...]

I wrote the first 2008 issue of Library Technology Reports on how technology has changed the way we do business, in libraries and outside of them. It includes case studies, tool reviews, and best practices for organizations, team leaders, and team members. Here is the blurb from the ALA TechSource site: The way of work [...]

In the past year and a half, over half of the librarians and all of the staff (except one) in my department have left, for various reasons, including all three of our managers. When a department has this level of turnover, there are many things that happen. Some questions should be pondered by the other [...]

I wanted to write this as a comment on the blog Marcus’ World, but it requires an account to TypeKey, which I did not want to set up for one comment. I also wanted to email Marcus to let him know I responded to his post. Alas, he has no email or other contact information [...]

Helene Blowers linked to an article from Fast Company called The New Rules of Innovation. The last rule was, of course, my favorite: Rule # 6 – Innovation is about breaking rules, so ignore any or all of the above. Innovation is about thinking outside of the box which often means outside of the rules [...]

I am writing this as a young Gen Xer so this guide really focuses on young GenXers and Millennials, but frankly, is not defined solely by age. (what is ever defined solely by age?) This list is based on my own unscientific observations, things I have read, things I have been pondering since getting pregnant, [...]

On the heels of Meredith and Jason, I have to throw my hat in the ring. Jason describes a conversation we had at Internet Librarian in which we hatched the most brilliant of all schemes ever. Well, we think so anyway. Jason describes very well the meat of our plan: ALA should offer a virtual [...]