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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

  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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »