http://managethis.org A blog about libraries and management Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:17:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I needed a change at the end of the day – no more reading, talking, or writing. And so I’m watching this ( I think you have to watch the video so you know what I’m talking about. ) And thinking, oh I know about this, and this, and this and then ... http://managethis.org/?p=240 I'm not sure how I stumbled onto this (it may be through the DearReader.com Online Book Clubs that sends me 5 minutes of business reading each day - I think it supposed to encourage me to read more) but anyhow from Harvard Business Publishing I ran across the spot Measuring ... http://managethis.org/?p=219 In Saturday May 9th's Globe & Mail there is a "Blueprint for Prosperity" by Tavia Grant. She outlines 3 building design themes that successful organizations have adopted or will adopt: Going Green, Close Quareters, and Lifespaces. Going Green is pretty straight forward, it's the latter two that I think might ... http://managethis.org/?p=213 When I first saw this spot, last year, from the Vancouver Public Library I was just happy to wallow in a bit of nostalgia and to see some old co-workers (I worked at VPL for many years). This time when I ran across it on Tame the Web and started ... http://managethis.org/?p=198 At a meeting the other day the inevitable discussion of libraries and change dominated the lunch break. It quickly focused in on technology, and in particular technology's effect on the catalogue and the reference interview. This discussion often leaves me wary. I wonder if perhaps this focus on technological change ... http://managethis.org/?p=195 The Canadian version of Richard Florida's Who's Your City is now in print . Florida is known for exploring the relationship between people and place, and in this book the particular relationship between creative people and a small group of Canadian cities. Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers asks us to consider that ... http://managethis.org/?p=180 About a year ago I got a rather strange notion in my head that I wanted to learn how to sew. Not a totally comfortable fit, things like sewing and me. At a tender age I was asked to transfer out of domestic science and into business studies (with an ... http://managethis.org/?p=160 Does your public library have a thinking pattern that is so tried and true, so formulaic, that it has moved beyond a successful method for solving problems into being a problem itself? Does every perceived problem get its own drawn out royal commission? Occasionally when I muse on the future ... http://managethis.org/?p=152 I like reason and humour. And when faced with sentimentality or other emotions that make me uncomfortable I default to flippancy and irreverence. I'm not saying this is a good thing, It's just a fair warning that you have to buy me a drink before you can get mushy with ... http://managethis.org/?p=147 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 ... http://managethis.org/?p=143