Mark Kille

I'm going see if we can start to do the same thing here, but this may have to get past legal... - Joe

Yes. Kind of like the ALA election. It's open too long, so I don't do it right away and then I forget to do it. - ellbeecee

I didn't know that honesty and integrity had its own management style name :) - John: Thread Killer

In other words, living in reality. Imagine that, what a radical idea. It is a sad comment that gurus actually have to give this (which is basically common sense) a trendy name. And I liked this line, "If you find a place that practices it, do whatever it takes to work there." I am still looking for such a place. Anyone out there know such a place, and are they hiring? :) - Angel R. Rivera

"It is not a good thing to have your customers spend their time trying to put you out of business." - barbara fister

We'd rather not, actually. - barbara fister

LSW convos have made me better at my job, fo sho. - Aaron the Librarian

Dorothea, to me that seems like lumping all the medical researchers working on cures for various still-incurable diseases under the heading "ineffectual." - Mark Kille

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs... - Mark Kille

can it be both? - ~Courtney F

"How do you propose that we quantify innovation in a gift/reputation economy?" <-- I was going to be flip and reference Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, but then I realized that all the social media sites with upvote/like and downvote/dislike are actually doing it. No, I don't think only measurable things have worth--but I do think that if people don't share a premise on the worth of something, it is hard to persuade each other to the other's view without evidence of some kind, and measurements are evidence king in contemporary American society (for better or worse, mostly worse.) I care because a non-trivial segment of the American population today appears to think that academic freedom is nothing more than academics' base self-interest. Which I suppose gets at the idea that academic work is particularly valuable--if society as a whole seems to be moving away from that premise, will repeating "but really it is" work? - Mark Kille

Plus, a paraprofessional position was upgraded to professional. Take that, prevailing trends! - Mark Kille

Oh yes, quite serious: http://www.naropa.edu/employm... - Mark Kille

Yep, that's a good one. - barbara fister

"Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. This means we’re going to have to decide how we either build, catalyse or join an ecosystem." - Mark Kille

Awww, that's sweet of you to say. I'm pretty excited myself. :-) - Meredith

I've been super impressed with PSU's library and the staff I have interacted with. you will be a great addition, Meredith! - holly #ravingfangirl

Yes, I agree that moving with a toddler at the age of two is easier than trying to move when he has friends at the age of 5/6 or older. - Joe

We need to work on simple osmosis. - Joe

Seconding Steve's comment as the most important thing, plus a strong understanding of/ability to get on board with the institution's mission and goals re: scholcomm and digital initiatives. - Jenica

I think some areas have done better than others - OA and IRs seem to have been less successful , IMO. Publishing and copyright support/guidance seem to be more successful. Author rights - well, that's a work in progress... I think it's too soon to tell with data management and escience. - Elizabeth Brown

Can't you do a form-ish letter for this? - Kirsten loves you

Singing telegrams? - Steve C, Team Marina

It is form-ish, but I still personalize them, and the form part makes it *boring*. I am a big whining whinypants. But I finished them. (I'm not sure how singing our tax-exempt number would go over...) - Mark Kille

Um, there's not really any way to do it legally except by buying whatever copies the broadcasters provide? And, as that post said, producers of broadcast media have never seen libraries as a significant market on our own, but that's because 1. we aren't a market that wants to leave them the control they want to have, and 2. we really aren't a significant market, unless their costs to produce the copies for us are really low, AND there's a critical mass of other consumers willing to buy them (e.g., movies and tv on VHS & then DVD). - N. Ansi

In New Zealand for academic libraries there's ECast http://www.e-cast.co.nz/educati... The website doesn't have much info and I can't remember much more, but basically it gives access to stream all sorts of programmes and if there's something specific coming up we can request it be recorded - or possibly that request goes through our own AV department. Either way the usage is allowed under our copyright law for educational purposes. - Deborah Fitchett

Um, your link needs a little editing. Seems a "...some" is tacked on the end. - Mar₭ Liŋdŋer

oops, thanks! http://contemplativelibrarian.... - Mark Kille