When Innovation Gets Difficult « iterating toward openness
'Imposing your will on bits and bytes is “easy.” Leading an established institution through the valley of the shadow of reform and up the opposite bank toward innovation is “hard.”'
librarian.net : bitnorth : 31oct09
"Stupid rules and how to change them: Why manners are simultaneously outmoded and tired and also the best way to get anything done."
Unshelved comic strip published Wednesday October 28, 2009
"Why are you telling me about everything in the library?"
IL2009: Selling Tech to Power in Tough Times | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan
Learning from failure - LLN
"I'll assert that any good failure is indeed a learning experience, and that we may learn more from failure than from success. I'll also assert that the library field would be stronger if we shared our failures."
50 reasons not to change « Biocultural Science & Management
The source of the "50 reasons not to change" excerpt included in my "Getting People Onside" workshop 2009-10-13.
Researching Your Library Tech Decisions | ALA TechSource
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listen to your patrons. Notice that I didn't necessarily say to ask them, but to listen to them.
Gas and Oil Jobs | Oil and Gas People
"Oil And Gas People aims to fundamentally change the recruitment process by providing an accurate snap-shot of the current Oil and Gas workforce and its availability."
Welcome - Oil and Gas jobs network
"A place where anyone working in the oil Industry can network, exchange information, keep up to date with the latest oil and gas news, create groups, events and chat with other members in the forums"
Library on a Donkey | Rocketboom
Reporting on the biblioburro in Colombia.
PD Photo - Free Photos And Pictures (public domain, stock pictures, wallpaper, royalty free, clip art, etc)
(Some not PD - check license at bottom of each page)
ImageCodr.org
A tool to give html code for correctly attributing creative-commons licensed photos from Flickr.
We will be getting libguides soon, but it isn't... - LSW - FriendFeed
Friendfeed discussion about adding Creative Commons license to LibGuides.
Understanding Users of Social Networks — HBS Working Knowledge
"about the needs that [social networks] fulfill, how men and women use these services differently, and how Twitter - the newest kid on the block - is sharply different from forerunners such as Facebook and MySpace."
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