Popular topics in LibraryLand over the last 48 hours, the tag cloud. Looks like february and 2007 are popular topics.
don’t forget about the government!
My pal Chris Zamarelli from Libraryola is guest blogger over at FreeGovInfo this month! Sorry I’ve been a bit scarce, I was off talking to the Internet Archive folks about some stuff, but I’m back now.
what makes a good library great?
T. Scott discusses the work of Jim Collins and how what makes a business great and what makes a social sector enterprise great are two very different things.
[I]n the social sectors it is a mistake to think that we need to “act like a business” (the subtitle to the monograph is why business thinking is not the answer) and he acknowledges that the measurements that we use to assess ourselves are not going to be as neatly quantitative as those that measure the performance of a for-profit company. But we still have to have clear goals, and strong discipline, and a way to tell whether or not we are moving toward those goals.
usability for library websites and services – UMich
The Usability Working Group of the University of Michigan University Library has a new website up which aims to “provide open access to our reports and working documents in order to share our findings with the University of Michigan Libraries as well as the community-at-large.” [web4lib]
33 reasons librarians are still extremely important
A no-nonsense list, good for any sort of situation. My favorites are 24) The internet is subject to manipulation, and 32) Libraries are a stopgap to anti-intellectualism. [thanks forrest]