Bibliocycle

For the past few years the OWHL has had a Student Advisory Committee. Students are our most important constituency, and we realized that if we wanted to continually improve our program, we needed to understand what spaces, resources, and services they needed and wanted. We had been periodically convening student focus groups, but [...]

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My position as Library Director has recently taken on a new dimension.  Because of budget rollbacks, when our Archivist retired this year, another staff member assumed the responsibilities of the position, resulting in the need for him to give up some of the things he was already doing.  One of the things that he gave [...]

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They don’t teach you everything you need to know in library school. For example, I never imagined that I’d be responsible, as library director, for a 60,000 square foot facility with “quirks.”
One of the more puzzling of our facilities issues is the inexplicable never-ending automatic-shut-off faucet located in the women’s rest room. The [...]

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was recently asked by one of the staff members working on the Academy’s web redesign project to submit a 50 word statement that captured the “essence” of the OWHL.  Thinking about responding to this request I was variously indignant (Don’t they understand how complicated we are?) cynical (How about “Got books”?) and philosophical.  While I [...]

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