Quiet, Please by Scott Douglas

Quiet, Please by Scott Douglas is a memoir of a twenty-something male librarian in Anaheim, California. It aims to be humorous and anecdotal, but fails to do either well.
As a recent graduate of library school, I took offense to most of what Douglas has to say. His stories about working with the mentally disabled, physically [...]

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Day Three at ALA 2008

Day three at ALA was my last day in California, after about four weeks of traveling throughout the state. By that point, I was very tired, and only managed to attend one program before heading home. The program I attended was called Hey! I Want to Do That Too! Gaming and the Elementary Age Child [...]

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Last Year’s ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC

My experience at last year’s ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC, was guided by the 2 credit course I took with Scott Nicholson, IST 600: Leadership and Organizations. Scott gave us some tips and required us to meet with a leader in the field at the conference. I met with Sari Feldman, Executive Director of [...]

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ALA Annual Preparations

The last week of this month is the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. Luckily, I’ll be in attendance for the first three of the five days the conference takes place (June 27-29).
In anticipation of the conference, I’ve compiled a list of programs that sound interesting to me.
Friday, June 27

9:30-11AM

Interviewing Strategies (ALA HRDR): interview strategies [...]

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The Building Blocks of Execution

According to the authors of Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (2002), there are three building blocks to execution. The first is “the leader’s seven essential behaviors;” the second is “creating the framework for cultural change;” and the third is “having the right people in the right place.”
Of course, you can’t have the last [...]

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