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I’ve Started a Library Blog

It’s official, folks. The new blog has begun. In between catching up on (most) emails and hauling chairs around the library today (20 new chairs arrived sort of unexpectedly, and it took a while to get them all sorted out, since the chairs they were replacing were going elsewhere in the building, and those chairs in turn were also going other places), I wrote the first post today, detailing what the blog is and what it will cover. For those of you interested, head on over to Browsing Room to check it out. I expect there will be some bleed […]

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Help Me Name My New Library Blog

Because I clearly have so much free time on my hands, I’ve decided to start a second blog–this one more work related. Yes, folks–that’s right. Soon, you’ll have the opportunity to get all my detailed views on librarydom. Well, they won’t all be mine. I’m going to be coauthoring the blog with one of my coworkers, so half of it’ll be mine. What will we be blogging about? Library news, tech news, local library events, general librarian information, and book and movie reviews. (There will probably be some bleed over in the reviews section between my blog and the library

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Some Observations from My Conference

I’ve been at this conference for seven hours now. Some of my thoughts are as follows: When hosting a COMPUTERS in Libraries conference, the hosting hotel really ought to make sure that its wireless network is robust enough to handle 1500 librarians all trying to get online at once. I keep getting bumped off the network, and that’s an easy way to make Bryce a very disgruntled boy. Some librarians seem to me to be a little too set on “bucking the stereotype” when it comes to librarians. I mean, I’m all for not having your hair in a bun and wearing

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Hiring Committees

I’m on a couple of hiring committees right now at work, and I have to say–I wish I had been on some hiring committees before I was applying for jobs back in the day. This isn’t to say that I’m unhappy with my job. Far from it. Rather, I think I would have been much more successful as an applicant if I’d had the chance to look at a bunch of other applications. Go figure. As it is, I consider myself lucky to have had everything work out as it has. You see things differently when you’re one of the

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Library Statistics

It’s an odd fact about me, but I actually enjoy working with statistics in Excel. Of course, there’s always such a thing as too much of a good thing, and that’s what I’m in now. Having to prepare 9 different spreadsheets (each with 6 separate sheets of data covering 12 months of time and 270 different categories) . . . it can get a bit old. What are the statistics covering? How many titles and volumes we’ll add to the collection, weed from the collection, and withdraw from the collection for the year, plus how many books, DVDs, CDs, etc

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