Possibly one of the most purely fun jobs of a librarian is collection development. Adding new materials in a pattern that best builds your collection as a thriving complete whole, no section over-enhanced, no section under-appreciated, is an art. The most important piece of that art is listening to your readers. What do they want…
Customer (or Client, or Constituent) Relationship Management systems, known as CRM, are at their core simply database structures. Which is to say they are lists of lists. More formally speaking, databases are structured collections of data. The data can be anything and everything. The structure is based on “relationships” between data points and between sets…
I appreciate ritual in my life. As my religious tradition is Judaism, the tradition I seek out is generally from Jewish sources. And sometimes, rituals don’t yet exist for the things I’m doing. Sometimes that’s because I’m doing something that didn’t used to be a thing that happened, and sometimes it’s because I’m doing a…