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  • Social media strategies for libraries

    My current research project is focused on my learnings from Blink and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. More specifically, I’m trying to find out how libraries can identify the right library 2.0 technologies that will work best for their own communities. So the first part of my research really involves decision making. Making Library…

  • Blink: the power of thinking without thinking

    Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell, is a book about decision making. More specifically, it is about snap judgments — the decisions we make in the blink of an eye, without thinking. What Gladwell shows is that there is a lot more to that split second of decision making than we might think. Gladwell explores the concept…

  • Exploring heart, trust, decision making and change in libraries

    There are a couple of topics I’m considering for my research paper for my Library 2.0 class. heart & trust The first is what intrigued me during our first weekend in class; the importance of positive human interaction in libraries. How can we encourage kindness and trust through library 2.0 technologies? How can social networking…

  • Good to Great

    Today I finished Good to Great by Jim Collins, a book that examines how good companies have become great and why others have failed. The book is based on findings from a research project that took 5 years to complete — and the findings are simply fascinating!

  • Meeting Charlaine Harris

    Last week I got a chance to meet one of my favorite authors, Charlaine Harris — who writes the popular Sookie Stackhouse books (aka TrueBlood series on HBO). I went with my friend Lisa and after climbing up on bookshelves at Borders to see Charlaine talk (since the place was packed with people) and after…