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Anderson, Richard Bryan | Away from the Icebergs: row your library into the Web 2.0 environment | I DON?T THINK THERE?S ANY QUESTION THAT WE LIBRARIANS ARE WORKING hard, with the best intentions, to serve our users well in a world that has changed dramatically in the last decade. If the profession is a boat, then I think we?re all rowing pretty heroically. But I?m not sure we?re paying enough a... | Web 2.0; Libraries | 2006 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Fire and ice: a soot removal technique using dry ice blasting | A welder's spark touched off the attic fire in the Sevier County Recorders Office (Richfield, Utah, USA) on 2 May 2006, igniting a blaze that ripped through the crawl space and greedily consumed the building's paper-backed insulation. The fuel readily spent, the fire burned itself out 15 minutes lat... | | 2006 |
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Anderson, Richard Bryan | IMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): on knowing the value of everything and the price of nothing | Are libraries ever guilty of wasting time and money (neither of which is ours to waste) on practices simply because they're "valuable" without considering whether there's a reasonable balance between what they're worth and what they cost? | Evaluation; Task management; Value; Cost | 2006 |
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Anderson, Richard Bryan | IMHBCO (In my humble but correct opinion): thinking about the value of staff time | When it comes to deciding how we and our staff should spend our time at work, it's becoming increasingly important that we look in a very hardheaded way at the value of our time and the value of our tasks. Our time is becoming increasingly expensive. Are we still spending time on processes that a... | Staff time; Salary budget; Collections budget | 2006 |
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Silverman, Randall H. | Towards a national disaster response protocol | Since the Florence flood of November 4, 1966, the concept of an organized disaster response for cultural property has been a focus for conservators. In 1976, a decade after the Arno River had retreated from Florence's museums, libraries, and historic churches, a Library of Congress planning confere... | Emergency; Property; Preservation | 2006 |
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Anderson, Richard Bryan | What will become of us? looking into the crystal ball of serials work | Is it possible to predict the future of serials work? Not with perfect accuracy, of course - but to do so imperfectly is both possible and imperative.We need to be looking ahead and asking questions like these: What are the implications of the open access movement for serials staff? Will the informa... | | 2006 |