We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
TOM PETERSThe top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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What gets measured gets done.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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