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Comment on Questions to ask your interviewers by cloudster

cloudster — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:07:16 +0000

Interesting collection of questions. I maintain a file on my iPhone of questions to ask when I’m interviewed, and I’ve added your list to mine.

Comment on Links and photo credits for Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference by Stars Without Makeup

Stars Without Makeup — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:22:08 +0000

Currently it appears like WordPress is the top blogging platform
out there right now. (from what I’ve read) Is that what you are using on your blog?

Comment on Some things never change, and still don’t work by Amy Andres

Amy Andres — Tue, 14 May 2013 02:45:17 +0000

I was glad to see this post and I appreciate how directly you handled the issue. Last summer we cancelled a fair number of print journals. In the weeks that followed I received countless phone calls about these cancellations — none of which were from our subscription agents. The calls were placed to me (director) or to other librarians (part of the tactic, imo). The calls created confusion amongst library staff (emails to me or to the systems librarian asking, “Didn’t we cancel this title?”) I made several return phone calls to remove our name from the call lists but, as you stated, it is a temporary reprieve. Great post for creating awareness. Thank you.

Comment on Some things never change, and still don’t work by Erica

Erica — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:35:41 +0000

What is worse – if this works at all like the nonprofit fundraising call center I once worked for oh so briefly, the call center employees’ pay and ability to stay employed is directly based on how many sales they achieve. We were judged on the total money we brought in and on the percentage of calls that resulted in a donation, but also judged on how successfully we upsold folks to a higher amount than what was previously on record for them. So the odds are that these folks will not only push for renewals, but try to slip in additional new sales along with it. I quit before my training week had finished after being reprimanded for not being pushy enough. We were literally instructed that, unless we were explicitly told never to call back or hung up on, we had to push the callee to say “no” three times before we were allowed to end the call.

Comment on Some things never change, and still don’t work by Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:01 +0000

Do they think folks in the library business have never gone shopping or gotten a solicitation call at home? Thanks for taking the initiative to write back – I’ve always wanted to but my manners get the better of me.

Comment on Questions to ask your interviewers by Resource Round-Up: Prepping for Interviews | Hiring Librarians

Resource Round-Up: Prepping for Interviews | Hiring Librarians — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:09:28 +0000

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Comment on Keynote from NLS6: Moving Beyond Book Museums by healthy children

healthy children — Thu, 09 May 2013 06:46:48 +0000

I drop a comment whenever I especially enjoy a article on a blog or I have something
to valuable to contribute to the discussion.
Usually it is a result of the fire displayed in the post
I read. And after this article Keynote from NLS6: Moving Beyond Book
Museums at Attempting Elegance. I was moved enough to post a
comment I actually do have a few questions
for you if it’s okay. Could it be just me or do some of these remarks come across as if they are written by brain dead folks? And, if you are writing at other online social sites, I’d like to follow you.
Would you list the complete urls of all your public pages like
your linkedin profile, Facebook page or twitter feed?

Comment on Some things never change, and still don’t work by Mary Carmen

Mary Carmen — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:16:00 +0000

I love seeing my subscription dollars hard at work.

Comment on Some things never change, and still don’t work by Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor — Wed, 08 May 2013 22:46:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing this depressing tale, and especially the Big Reveal that this is being done systematically.

I can’t help wishing you’d name-’n'-shame the guilty vendor, though. After all, they are, y’know, guilty.

Comment on Things academic library directors are asked to engage with by Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:56:05 +0000

I’ve already had some of those, despite only being here a couple months. Also: gamification & copyright.