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Beautiful Music
I’ll be at the Reedsburg Public Library later today talking about personality types and interpersonal relationships for their staff in-service.
Posted in Customer Service, Employees, Management
Tagged Colleagues, interpersonal relations, Personality types, Working with Others
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Wishing for Peace
On a day for remembering the people who died while serving in the armed forces, I am also wishing for peace. For all of us. Happy Memorial Day. Peace.
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Libraries Can Help
Libraries help their communities in numerous ways every day. At least they should. Good libraries do.
Take Me to Your Leader!
A couple of quick links about leaders and leadership today:
Posted in Employees, Leadership, Management, Supervision, Training
Tagged Leaders, Leadership, Leading
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How About a Little Romance?
There’s nothing wrong with romance. Though not everyone’s romance looks the same, there’s really nothing wrong with it.
In Honor of Mothers Everywhere
Just sharing this from Huffington Post, one day late for Mother’s Day.
Failure = Success!
It seems appropriate to follow up the last post about being successful with this one about how successful people handle failure.
Yes, I’d Like to be Successful
Yes, I’d like to be successful. Wouldn’t you? So I’m always on the lookout for tips to be more successful.
Library Photo of the Month–May 2015
This month’s library photos of the month are of the Nashville (TN) Public Library. The above is an interior shot. Isn’t it pretty? I was impressed with this signage in the Gallery, a space for displaying public art.
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Tagged Art, Arts, Library Photo of the Month, Nashville, Nashville Public Library, Public libraries, Visual arts
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Give Me an “i”!
iSchool? What’s that? The University of Wisconsin-Madison is the institution which granted my Master’s degree. Specifically, what was then called the School of Library and Information Science,
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