Photo by Iñaki del Olmo on Unsplash I get asked a lot about the best ways to organize a personal library. To be honest, there is no right or wrong way as long as the way you’ve chosen to organize your library works for you. Even if what works for you is to organize by size and color. […]
Read On! The Five Laws
December 4, 2018 By Leave a Comment
In 1931, Dr. S. R. Ranganathan proposed the Five Laws of Library Science. There have been several adaptations along the way, but I tend to like the original: Books are for use Every reader his/her book Every book its reader Save the time of the reader The library is a growing organism I think about […]
Read On! Nice Quiet Libraries
November 30, 2018 By Leave a Comment
There’s a struggle in modern libraries. Are libraries quiet havens for reading, study, and contemplation or are libraries lively centers for communication, play, and creation? The short answer is, “yes.” Finding a balance between those needs in our building is difficult, but not impossible. Our physical building limits some of what we can do to […]
Read On! Chicago Revisited
November 19, 2018 By Leave a Comment
I got to go to Chicago a few weeks ago to attend the Participatory Design Workshop for the Measuring Library Broadband Networks study (which is to say, we had a meeting to help the researchers focus and design their study so the results will be the most useful to libraries across the nation). The participants […]
