LIS5020

I believe these policies should all have an anti-discrimination policy prominently towards the front of their document. When it comes to the actual rules, I believe that it’s important to add that equipment and voice volume has to also be looked at as accessibility accommodations. Sleeping is an acceptable use of the library, and is…

I’ve always found it interesting to look at much larger entities and how they do things because I like to think they’ve kind of ‘figured it out’ and ironed out all the bumps and potholes along the way. In figuring out how to set up the funding and finances for an archives, who better to…

A focus on archives is narrow, but I still work in a public library which offers a wider scope. With my position as it works within the county, it’s not as though I would be able to do it without also being part of how a public library works. Thinking about it through that lens,…

It’s been over six years since I looked over my resume and considered a cover letter, so this was an excellent exercise to get me out and flexing some of those dusty ‘self promoting’ muscles that I’ve neglected for the past few years. What I really enjoyed about this was the online aspect allowing me…

The library I work out of is classified as ‘rural’ by many definitions. Palatka has 10,000 residents, with 63,000 more living in the other communities and the edges of the county. The needs of our residents vary from what one would find in a larger city: many of our patrons are living on poverty wages,…

My first thought for this assignment was that I surely had to just do something in Archives. That’s my focus, after all. But archives – at least, my archives – are based out of the public library and that as a whole is facing a crisis of irrelevancy. People have no ‘use’ for the library;…

It’s both fascinating and frustrating to see the differences between 2021 and 2022 and how the topic of needs are mostly the same; the pandemic and censorship.  In a ‘logical’ way, one would think that censorship wouldn’t even be an issue and that the deadly pandemic would be at the forefront of all library concerns,…

What is the value of the public library, anyway? It costs money, generates no income, and it’s only for entertainment. At least, that’s how I’ve heard a shocking number of individuals put it. I even had a person inform me that a library is “just an overpriced daycare” that they “have to chuck tax dollars…

“First Day of Class” jitters and thoughts.