David Lee King has linked to a few sites of note lately – the first is a link to an interview he did for degreetutor.com in which he describes both the most useful and useless elements of libraries and librarianship today and the most difficult challenges that we need to face in our libraries today. I like that David is able to call a spade a spade and doesn’t pull punches when discussing important elements of the transitions that are happening in librarianship. This is evidenced in his recent post about the non-techie truth about library 2.0 – and he is spot on. Give it a read!
Next, and perhaps most interesting to me, is that David has announced the new blog of his boss, the Deputy Director of Operations at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library. While it has yet to be filled with daily posts – I’m certainly hoping that it will. It is important to get the opinions and insights of those folks who, whether they like it or not, control our organizational cultures. As evidenced in David’s interview, in previous posts of mine and around the professional blog-world, if not even the literature, our organizations and the traditional models of our own making are often our biggest barriers to becoming more vibrant and alive in our service to our communities. I’m hoping that these Admin Musings from a Deputy Director can help offer tips and help for really implementing institutional change rather than just writing about what should be as so many of us do – which (don’t get me wrong) is equally valuable, but it’s only half of the story. Some must dream and some must make it happen. A single person trying to do both will never be as successful as they could be and either the ideas or the implementation (or both) will suffer.
