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I'm Walt Crawford, a long-time systems analyst/programmer and writer. This blog deals with the intersections of libraries, policy, technology and media. There's a related ejournal: Cites & Insights
Contact me at waltcrawford at gmail.com.
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Category: ALA
More of you attended this year's ALA Annual Conference than ever before. If the programs I attended (and I attended more programs than usual) and the crowds I saw in exhibits are any indication, you were active at the conference,...
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Category: Library Leadership Network
Say what? I don't believe the three words are directly related--but they all play into changes in articles in the Library Leadership Network over the past week. It's been one of those weeks where everything's a change in existing pages...
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Category: Library Leadership Network
Here's another little post about the Library Leadership Network (LLN)--naturally suggesting that you might want to go look, but also thinking about how it develops and some of the recent content. Some weeks, most new content goes into existing articles....
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Category: Library Leadership Network
When the Library Leadership Network began, it was mostly about management--and much of the management literature uses terms leadership and management interchangeably. Over time, I've tried to distinguish the two. The standard shorthand for that distinction is, I think, a...
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Category: Library Leadership Network
It would be nice to say that the Library Leadership Network grows through advance planning and scheduled changes. It would also be nonsense. Sure, there's an overall plan (of sorts), but weekly changes tend to be opportunistic--articles grow and change...
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Category: Library Leadership Network
A bit of background for those new to Walt at Random The Library Leadership Network (LLN) is "a platform designed to help library leaders (and those who will become leaders) communicate, coordinate, find resources and share information." It's a service...
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