Free Range Librarian

(Updated with a photo of how not to do self-check.)
Laura has a good entry on her RFID blog about implementing reduced-staff self-check. She says, “The key for the people I spoke with, however, was placing a dedicated staffer near the machines for the first few weeks to assist patrons during the transition.”
I’m going to change [...]

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No, she didn’t really–but she did star in a webcast last week, which was a neato thing to do and a great way to bring the state librarian to our desktop. She also reads blogs (or Her People read blogs–you know, I would like that, personally), and responded in a nice way to Libraryman’s post, [...]

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If you’re like me, you are still waiting for the magic email that will allow you to vote in the 2005 ALA elections. (And waiting. And waiting. Good ol’ ALA. It worries me that the first day to report not receiving a ballot is April 1. “Hah hah, April Fool, you don’t get to vote!”) [...]

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This is a wild week for me–I am back and forth with usability specialists, designers, programmers, project managers, you name it, working on the new MPOW (no, you can’t see it yet, though if you ask nice I might give you a peek). Plus I had two big assignments due this week–I’m looking forward to [...]

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A brief, unsigned news blurb on Library Journal’s website claims to report on the response to Michael Gorman’s article, Revenge of the Blog People. However, LJ’s “news” item has as much authenticity as the government-produced video news releases discussed in today’s New York Times (a piece of reporting so good I read it standing [...]

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If you are thinking about establishing a blog for your library, let your fingers fly to Icarus, the Santa Fe Public Library blog, which lives up to its tagline as “a weblog of library news, book chat, events, websites and more.” Lead blogger Miriam Bobkoff established Icarus only a month ago, but already this blog [...]

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I spent the day in meetings for LITA Exec Board, and will be back in the grind tomorrow. To TGIF I say: SWOS (Still Working On Saturday). Nevertheless, following a great dinner with the board at Catch 35, I’m enjoying a lovely late evening in a delightfully idiosyncratic room at the Hotel Monaco, swathed in [...]

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This is based on a true anecdote, shared on the DIG-REF discussion list.
The city of Denver is not only wealthy enough to have a Chief Muckety-Muck of Phone Messages, but does not leave anything as important as changing a phone message to just anyone, let alone the library administration.
As an administrator, I imagine the [...]

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Full disclosure: I’m a friend of Jackie Griffin (don’t hold that against her…). I say that because I’ve been reluctant to post about the RFID kerfuffle at Berkeley Public Library, where Jackie is director, not because I was holding back on anything, but because I felt that even with full transparency, our friendship could compromise [...]

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You know, I’m now thinking that it’s the LEFT navigation bar that’s pushing down the comment box on FRL.
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