Soul food – culture and IT meets Library

This post takes a meandering wander through my mind and ends up again with the IT/Library relationship. Last night I went to the City Muster, and my thirsty soul was fed a little (hmmm – mixed metaphors here….oh well, never mind, I’m sure you get my drift). I gave the tickets to my son (J, [...]

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Models for managing IT in libraries – part 2

As I indicated in an earlier post, the model which most interests me is one where the support for library IT is shared in some way.  The reasons it interests me is that if it is done properly, it can be the most efficient and most effective. And it seems so often it is a [...]

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Birthdays

Yep – it’s mine today. So rather than do as promised, and continue my essay on IT management, I’m just going to rest up and reflect on birthdays.  I started my last job the day after my birthday – one of the big ones. I started this new job a week before my birthday – [...]

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Models for managing IT in libraries

Over the years I have seen a number of different models used by libraries of various types and sizes for managing IT.  The models have changed over the years, but also vary enormously, often based on budgets but sometimes based on philosophy. I can remember sympathising with a lecturer at my PPOW (previous place of [...]

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Welcome to my blog

Hi.  My esteemed colleague Kathryn told me that when I moved to my new job, I would have to start a blog to share my experiences. So I am. So blame her…..  Actually, I thought long and hard about it, because I wondered what on earth I could say that others might find interesting. Anyone who [...]

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