G and J on NPR

Well, we’ve finally made it into the radio big leagues, with this interview titled “Are Libraries Necessary” on WBUR’s syndicated Here & Now show. 

Can the PBS NewsHour be far behind?  Look out, Nancy Pearl!

–George and Joan

Your labels make me feel stupid

Joan and I often talk about the need to make the library easy to get around, a place where one can get started and feel successful fairly quickly. We offer some tips on using ”civilian” (i.e., non-library) wording and references on our signs.

Now it appears our colleagues in the art museum are starting to look at this as [...]

This I Believe: An LIS Student Perspective 3

Here is another post from the “This I Believe” essays written by students in Nancy Lensenmayer’s Foundations of Library Science class at Kent State University’s Columbus program. This essay was written by Cassie Lewis.  

—George

 This I Believe

When I graduated from the Ohio State University in 2004, I wasn’t quite ready to go on to [...]

Holiday Podcast

We’ve just recorded a new holiday podcast for our friends at Infopeople.

A VISIT TO THE LIBRARY
by Joan Frye Williams (http://www.georgeandjoan.com)
with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore

‘Twas the day before Christmas, all still in the stacks.
Senior staff had already gone home to relax.
The materials nestled all snug on their shelves,
Though we’ve trimmed pages’ [...]

This I Believe: An LIS Student Perspective 2

Here’s another “This I Believe” essay from one of Nancy Lensenmayer’s LIS students, Derek Zoladz.

- George

This I believe

If there is one concept above all others that can inform the practice of librarianship, it would be the concept of care. I initially thought about this when I encountered a paraphrased statement made by Joan Durrance [...]

This I Believe: An LIS Student Perspective 1

My friend and OCLC colleague Nancy Lensenmayer also teaches in the Kent State University School of Library and Information Science. One of her class assignments was to ask her students to write “This I Believe” essays similar to what Joan and I posted here in July. I offered to post any essays that students wanted [...]