Advocacy, charging and innovation at LLN
What’s new at the Library Leadership Network (LLN)?
New and improved articles
- Advocacy and marketing begins with thoughtful commentaries on advocacy from Leigh Ann Vrabel and char booth.
- In the interests of coherence and article length, commentaries on problems with ebook readers now appear in Ebook reader problems and issues–including a major new section on DRM and how it’s biting some Kindle fans.
- Charging for services offers a new take on a long-standing issue, along with a fair number of comments on “Freemium” services.
- What makes an innovative idea actionable? Nina Simon offers a thoughtful new perspective on that issue in a new addition to Innovation and control.
Leader’s Digest
- “The leader’s lifelong learner’s permit” offers some advice on learning for leaders.
- Is there an “ebook revolution“? If so, “Will libraries be absent?”
- “Crowdsourcing: what it means for innovation” offers hints for corporations eager to get “beyond money” as compensation for innovation and includes that ever-popular advice, “just do it” (phrased as “jump in and try”).
- “Twitter’s 10 rules for radical innovators” offers ten reasons “why Twitter is so important.”
- Finally, there’s a trio of “Technology tidbits” from MIT’s Technology Review.
Quick take
This fortnight’s Quick take is a short followup to last week’s: Recruiting new library leaders, Part 2: ML[I]S required?
A special note for those who tried to read posts on Walt, Even Randomer yesterday: No, you weren’t hallucinating (well, not about this, at least): The posts dated since March 16, 2009 were missing.
They’re back.
It has to do with the servers LISHost actually uses, a problem in March, and a little DNS mixup yesterday. These things happen.
And, to be sure, most “substantive” new posts now appear here. Movie reviews, ALA schedules and a few other things continue to appear in this space, as do unedited copies of LLN Highlights posts.
