What’s new (and hot!) at the Library Leadership Network?
Hot
The updated What’s hot at LLN? page shows the 25 articles most frequently read between May 9 and June 8, and the 25 articles (not including that 25) most frequently read since LLN began. It’s a changing picture; five of this month’s 25 hot articles weren’t on last month’s list.
New and updated articles
- A new section in Problematic communication and behavior discusses destructive games at work, from gotcha through scapegoating. Read the rest of the composite article for a range of useful advice on dealing with these and other communication and behavior problems.
- Notes on an article by Sam Anderson “In defense of distraction,” with the usual memes for this sort of article (generation generalizations, inevitability, and if people were wrong to doubt one change, they’re wrong to doubt any change), are now part of Multitasking notes. The article’s worth reading, if not necessarily all that convincing.
- Steven Bell comments on Ira Glass’ advice for storytelling as an effective presentation tool in a major new section of Presentations.
- Kindle experiences now includes hands-on reviews of the forthcoming big-screen Kindle DX.
- Kindles and libraries: LaRue’s Views combines Jamie LaRue’s early view on ebook readers and libraries with his recent “what if?” thoughts on public libraries if, somehow, ebook readers did become ubiquitous.
- A small update to Sony Reader experiences may not be so small for would-be readers: Direct availability to 600,000+ free public-domain ebooks from Google Book Search, converted to the Sony-compatible (and open standard) EPUB format from PDF.
Leader’s Digest
- Are corporate libraries really bellwethers for academic and other libraries? Ross Housewright apparently believes so, according to Change in corporate libraries: Considerations for academic libraries.
- Are your subordinates setting you up to fail? Look for this one to show up in Problematic communications… next month!
- Current pontifications on actual behavior in Twitter and what it means in Twitter research: Men follow men; one-to-many model.
Quick take
This week’s Quick take is shorter than usual: “Know-how: The 8 skills that separate people who perform from those who don’t.”
