I had a safe and unenventful trip and now I’m camped in the bar at the Hilton waiting for my room. Checking my aggregator, I see folks are posting about the conference. It is good to be here! (and it amazes me this is my sixth CIL!) See you in the workshops, sessions, exhibits and around Dupont Circle!
Yearly Archives: 2005
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Lead by Example: Work, Change, Self & Others Al Gini, Loyola University Chicago, author of “The Importance of Being Lazy” spent a lively session discussing how to better manage our lives: on and off the job beacuse so few of us are happy with work. He illustrated points with numerous Dilbert cartoonms featuring the evil head of Human Resources and the unfortunate employees who encounter “Catbert.” Gini pointed out that happy staff must experience the four Rs of working: Recognition, Respect, Relationship and Rewards from supervisors and colleagues. Dealing with change is a concern, he stressed. Librarians sometimes resist change […]
I’m happy to report that TTW is one of the blogs listed at the Information Today Blog for the Computers in Libraries conference, which ITI’s Tom Hogan Jr., VP of Marketing & Business Development says could be the highest attended in 5 years. I leave out of South Bend at 6am tomorrow! See you there….
Wow! I just got to thinking about 5 trips to CIL and 3 to IL, as well as ALA annual, ILI and PLA… you can really collect a lot of bags!
http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/03/pickpod/index.php?lsrc=mcrss-0305
I was interviewed last night by Greg Schwartz concerning the upcoming Computers in Libraries conference. Have a listen: http://openstacks.net/os/archives/000777.html My part was “Made on a Mac!” 🙂
Via Stephen, Steven and Stephens: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/09/blogging_is_good_for.html 4. No matter how great you are, your career depends on communicating. The way to get better at anything, including communication, is by practicing. Blogging is good practice. Well said. One thing that came up in conversation with Mr. Abram at PLA is that a blogger can have a voice in the LIS blogosphere from the smallest, most remote library in the world and still reach a huge audience if they are putting their blogging presence out there. This, to me, insures we get original voices. Original thoughts. And best practices to try out […]
Are you doing something with iPods in your library? E-mail please at mstephens7 (at) mac.com!