Author Archives for Andy
What Can We Drop?
In libraries and higher education in general we’re constantly adding things. Adding new buildings to campus. Adding new and innovative services for our users. Adding more resources to our collection. Adding to the cost of tuition. But this is not always the most helpful way to think about things.
Perhaps we should start thinking about what [...]
Librarians Are Experts In Failing
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
Research is an exercise in failure. You try a search in Google, or the catalog, or a database and often you don’t find what you’re looking for right away. You then try something else and perhaps get a little closer. Each time you [...]
It’s All About Appearances
In Borders the other day I happened upon this display. Glancing at it, I figured “oh, looks like they’re hocking the Twilight books pretty hard still.”
But on closer inspection, that wasn’t the whole story. There was a Twilight book or two in the vicinity, but the books they were hocking were a bit older. In [...]
