More on new directions for administrative services

On March 11, Imani Abalos facilitated the Admistrative Services Council's second discussion of New Directions. Conversation fcoused on the Workforce of the Future and how to identify the skill sets required for recruiting new employees. Suggestions… more »
Mar 21, 2008 | Categories: Discussion Group Reports | guest

Transcript of New Directions discussion on January 23, 2008.

The following are comments and reflections expressed at a meeting of Research and Collections Staff.  I have tried to organize the comments by themes but clearly these themes are interrelated and do not fall necessarily into one theme or another.  It was… more »
Mar 18, 2008 | Categories: Discussion Group Reports | guest

Linking the catalog to Google scanned books

Several posts in this blog have mentioned the value of linking from catalog records to books that have been scanned. Now, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Google is making available a method to do just that. "... many students and… more »
Mar 17, 2008 | Categories: Spirit of experimentation, What users want | jkupersm

Use of technology to ease work of existing staff

I'm posting on behalf of the administrative staff who provide the infrastructure support for the Library community. We have been exploring administrative partnerships with other departments on campus who have implemented technology improvements to st… more »
Mar 12, 2008 | Categories: Topics We're Discussing | guest

Information Sharing Behavior Among Grads

  I wasn't able to attend the Early Bird that covered the very interesting faculty interviews that were held, but I did read them all.  Serveral intriguing behavior patterns emerged in the various narratives. One in particular caught my interest… more »
Mar 07, 2008 | Categories: Discussion Group Reports | thuwe

Roy Tennant on New Directions

Roy Tennant recently wrote about New Directions for the UC Berkeley Library on his Library Journal blog. Roy provides an accurate picture of our process - it is worth a read. He also highlights our tag cloud, which I promised to update in a previous post… more »
Mar 07, 2008 | Categories: Recommended Readings, Topics We're Discussing | bquigley

Perspectives on students and library space

At the end of January, I hosted a New Directions "small group discussion" on students and library physical space. 25 people showed up to offer their insights, opinions and advice, much of it intended for the Moffitt renovation project. A brief… more »

Time to crush a few pots?

According to a recent article in the New York Times: Xiang Yu was a Chinese general in the third century B.C. who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in decision making. He crushed his troops? co… more »
Mar 07, 2008 | Categories: Recommended Readings | jkupersm

CSG Meeting feedback

The New Directions discussion at the most recent CSG meeting was focused primarily around ?new models for serving the public better (outreach)? and the tandem concerns about how to provide novel or evolved services with the same staffing and spaces. Foll… more »
Mar 04, 2008 | Categories: Discussion Group Reports | sgrant

Fran Blouin, talk at UC Berkeley

Merrilee Proffitt, formerly of ROHO and the Bancroft Library here at Cal, and now at OCLC's RLG Programs, visited us to hear Fran Blouin's talk. She posted a summary on hangingtogether.org, a blog for staff of RLG Programs, to let them know what… more »
Mar 03, 2008 | Categories: Speaker Presentations | guest