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Positive Vision and Questions in Libraries


“All we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” -Buddha “A vivid imagination compels the whole body to obey it.” -Aristotle I just began a 6 week online workshop on Appreciative Inquiry conducted by David Cooperrider at Case Western University’s Weatherhead School of Management. [...]

Our Questions Create The Future


I read Brian Mathews’ new white paper Think Like a Startup on Friday, and it was an inspiring end to the week. If you haven’t read it yet, go do it (and I’d love to hear your thoughts and chat about it on Twitter). In the paper he also puts forward good questions — big [...]

Human-Centered Librarianship


I found a library marketing button in my drawer the other day that said “More than Books… Our Library has it All!” It depicts a VHS tape, a floppy disk, an audio cassette, and a CD. I’m guessing that button was never a good marketing tool. We keep hearing that libraries are more than just [...]