Time for a little R&D

Flipping through the Globe & Mail this weekend I ran across Gary Mason’s article “Scarcity of R&D driving top minds from Canada”.
Read the article, or the quotes I have here, and see how frighteningly well these concerns fit into a library context.
Mason was looking at the work of Dr. Gupta, a professor of [...]

You get what you ask for - maybe

Who hasn’t heard that tough questions are hard to ask? But it’s not really the questions is it? “Do you love me?” isn’t a tough question if you know the answer is “yes”.
Designing customer satisfaction surveys that are meaningful, is not for the faint of heart. Developing questions that bring back answers that we [...]

Teams

Some interesting thoughts from David Lee King in his post “Basic Competencies of a 2.0 Librarian” and from Emily Clasper at Library Revolution in “Librarians and Technology: Minimum Competencies”.
They are right. We do need to know these tools, their creative possibilities and how to use them to manage our communications, services and professional development.
We [...]

Let’s Communicate

I just stumbled across the report “What Is an Open Repository”, by Julie Allinson, Jessie Hey, Chris Awre and Mahendra Mahey, in the April 2007 issue of Ariadne on the Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio Texas in January. This was the second open repositories conference, the first was held in Australia in [...]