Archive for July, 2007

On Taking Risks.

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Meredith Farkas has a great post about why taking risks can bring great rewards.
For a recent library school graduate like myself, this is very inspiring. I’ve done a lot of volunteering for committees and organizations, which has given me the opportunity to learn from my colleagues and discover new things that I enjoy about […]

ALA Alert on Access to Research

Monday, July 16th, 2007

From the ALA Alert:
Effective yesterday, both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have proposed fiscal year (FY) 2008 spending bills that direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to change its Public Access Policy so that NIH-funded researchers are required to deposit copies of NIH-funded research into the online archive of the National Library of […]

Comments on More Than Coffee and Wireless

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

The question of “library as place” has been bounced around for quite a while now. It is an issue that gets right to the heart of why patrons would want to spend their time at the library–what can they find within those four walls that is not available on the internet or in a […]