What Job Skills Should Todays Librarian Possess?
Posted July 22, 2006 Responding to a recent blogpost by Meredith Frakas about the basic technical and non-technical skills needed by a 21st century librarian, “Free Range Librarian” Karen Schneider reflects on her fifteen years in library work and offers this list of skills needed by a librarian…in any century. The first skill Karen mentions: cunning. First read Part I and then read Part II of Karen’s excellent list. Encouraging Creativity, Keeping Creative Employees Posted June 21, 2006 This 12-paragraph screed from a business-related blog entitled “Slow Leadership” is so chock-full of apt observations and wise counsel for administrators and managers of large public library systems that we’re not going to bother printing numerous excerpts. Instead, we hope you’ll take the time to read the whole thing, including the nifty flow chart that introduces this well-written and timely-for-a-post-Hooker-AFPL essay. And if you have a few more minutes, don’t skip the readers’ interesting commen
