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which is more important, improving service or cutting costs??

NYPL has hired consultants. You may remember McKinsey & Co. as the people who advised cost-cutting at Disneyland

The McKinsey & Company consulting firm has been contracted to review all Library operations and make recommendations about how we can improve service delivery, both internally and externally in the context of the current economic realities.

cliques at libraries

Posted on 12Feb04 by jessamyn

LISCareer has a newish “articles by date” feature that makes it easier to say “hey, there’s new articles up!” and have somethign to link to. I was immediately drawn to Michelle Millet’s article called Libraries Have Cliques Too as someone who has recently started a new job at a library which has had very little turnover in the past decade.

my article on salary surveys is up

Posted on 12Feb04 by jessamyn

My article for the ALA-APA newsletter “Rural Library Compensation, The Vermont Initiative ” is available online. Check out the word GOPHER in that URL for the VT Dept of Libraries in the bibliography, sexy!.

hi – 11feb

Posted on 11Feb04 by jessamyn

Hi. Fixed the about link from yesterday.

send in your recipes!

Posted on 11Feb04 by jessamyn

I have a pamphlet which is one of my favorite little bits of librariana called The Librarian’s Cookbook [no, not this one]. It was published in the 70s and has a bunch of amusing recipes, mostly not intended for eating as much as explicating. And, of course, organized by DDC. Apparently there’s another Librarian’s Cookbook in the works, send in your favorite recipes. [lisnews]