Some interesting thoughts sprinkled throughout the interview portion...----------OCLC now serves 72,035 libraries in 170 countries, with more than 260 million records—up from 39 million records in 1998. Its businesses have shifted radically, with an increasing proportion of its revenues derived from the library automation business rather than metadata services.Jordan’s tenure has not been without controversy. Some in the automation field charge that OCLC has an unfair competitive advantage as a nonprofit.

A friend and I had an interesting conversation some time ago where we talked about good supervisors that we had (& conversely) bad supervisors. I noted some of our thoughts for a later (now) blog post as I've come across an article that fits really nicely into this theme.The obvious bad managers were micromanagers or those that were abusive (throwing things, yelling, rampant favoritism/selective punitive treatment, etc.). However, in our conversation, we agreed that management is a spectrum; although at some point those in the middle will tip towards bad or good.

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALSProposal Submission Deadline: March 30^th, 2012Collaborative Instructional Design in Library and Teacher PartnershipsA book edited by Dr. Kathryn Kennedy and Dr. Lucy Santos GreenGeorgia Southern UniversityCollege of EducationTo be published by IGI Global:http://bit.ly/xPKxcvIntroductionSchool library media specialists are more readily becoming integral parts of P-12 schools.

As many of you have seen now there was a public G+ post from a Google staff person; it has now been taken down and "leaked" (some are wondering whether it was intentionally leaked since there are claims that they have permission to republish it).Anyhow, these are just my thoughts after reading it yesterday. The post itself is rather long and obviously not meant to be a formal piece of writing, but it is interesting with some very valid discussion points.

Have you been looking for an opportunity to present at a national conference? If so, the 2nd Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, a conference for EVERYONE, is seeking proposals. It's not too late for you to submit a proposal, but time is running out!

How do you get through multiple layers (organizational levels) to get social media started?

• Personnel policy -- clearly let staff know what they can do and can't
• Address security issues upfront (IT related)
• Talk about the value of social media
• Talk about productivity impact
• Look to peer organizations -- i.e., positive peer pressure
• Leadership from top -- leadership should support and model appropriate social media use
• Archiving -- if your content falls under open records make sure to consider archiving of social media if your content is n

I just found out about this and I'm going to try to attend (if I can find my avatar....)Please join us for Carolina Conversations. Carolina conversations is a series of live interviews with members of the UNC-Chapel Hill community conducted in the virtual world, Second Life. Our guests discuss their work and interests and will also respond to questions from the Second Life audience attending in-world.Guest: Gary Marchionini, Professor in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina.Live at 3:30 p.m.

To see it full size:http://www.xkcd.com/256/

A brief article from the Washington Post about naming conventions on the 'net.

5000 resources to do just about anything onlineI love mashable and I can't possibly summarize everything in this article, but if you are looking for new things to do with your blog/website, or just to have a little fun on the 'net, do take a look. You can find things such as 30 widgets for a wordpress blog, 70+ podcasting tools, 12+ twitter tools, etc. Lots and lots of wordpress stuff. ;-)