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03 June 2008 13:31

My story. Let me tell it to you.

Since I started working in public libraries four years ago (almost to the day - June 14th 2004 was my first day), I've been doing pretty much the same thing: online stuff. I started with some vague responsibility for the People's Network , which became Read More...
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12 May 2008 02:25

On reading groups

I don't know how your library's reading groups work, but ours are led by librarians. They meet every four weeks, and everyone turns up having read the same book. We also have reading circles, which have more of a free-for-all vibe. There's one school Read More...
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22 April 2008 08:34

Full of BS

We're having a let's-promote-our-online-resources day on Thursday. You know the drill: we pay for all of this stuff, but it doesn't get used particularly well, so maybe if we tell people about it we'll see usage go up... We used AviScreen Portable to Read More...
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11 March 2008 09:08

And finally: lessons learned in Bulgaria

The visits to Bulgarian libraries were great, and they helped give me a bit of context for the real reason we were there: to talk to Bulgarian library directors about how we do things. Seeing a couple of libraries - even if they were unrepresentative Read More...
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11 March 2008 07:17

A tale of two libraries, part two: Sofia Municipal Library

Old Communist Party building + shoehorned-in library = this: We met the Library Director, Georgi Belchev, in his office upstairs. He gave us the facts and figures - 1,000,000 items in stock, three (yes, three) branches - and described the 15 departments Read More...
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