Last fall I attended a symposium on service at the New York Public Library. I was initially interested in the symposium because it featured Paco Underhill, author of Why We Buy (more on that in another entry down the road). I read extensively in the library literature but I also try to read outside our [...]

Thursday, February 11; Reception: 6:30 p.m.; Program: 7 p.m. Thompson Library; “Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson” is the third in a trilogy of biographies by author Wil Haygood about pivotal African-American figures that includes Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Sammy Davis, Jr. In each book, Haygood delivers a comprehensive biography [...]

The Libraries’ Internet Presence Projects group has put together new posts on the LIPP blog highlighting some important changes to the OSUL Website Redesign Project: Content Migration Progress Update: All the great things that have been happening. http://library.osu.edu/blogs/lipp/2009/11/18/content-migrationprogress-update/ Content Migration Timeline Changing: Changes to the implementation timeline. http://library.osu.edu/blogs/lipp/2009/11/18/content-migration-timelinechanging/ Help Design the Homepage!: An outline of [...]