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Word of the Day: Synergy

Synergy is a word that has been damaged by overuse, particularly in corporate communications where it is deployed as a buzz word devoid of real meaning. If I were editing a corporate communications document, I'd probably replace this word with a synonym because it is most likely meaningless jargon in that context. Which is a … Continue reading Word of the Day: Synergy

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January 9, 2020January 9, 2020Art, Book organization, Creativity, Jargon, Libraries, synergy, Temperance1 Comment
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Quality of self-published books, revisited…

Recently, I wrote about the issue of quality in self-published books when compared to traditionally published books. I’m not the first or only person to have written about this (see here and here and here and here). I have also written about it on this blog many times. On my latest post on this subject, a commenter wrote: … Continue reading Quality of self-published books, revisited…

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June 15, 2016Baseline for quality, Libraries, Quality, Self-publishing, Traditional publishing, Writers, WritingLeave a comment
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Become a friend of your library

Following on my last post, I agree with Neil Gaiman that libraries are of vital importance to our society. Like many readers, I grew up in a library, basically, quickly graduating from the kids' section to the adult books. I remember systematically reading my way through every Agatha Christie (she wrote something like 85 of … Continue reading Become a friend of your library

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May 15, 2015Friends of the Library, Libraries, ReadingLeave a comment
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Neil Gaiman’s manifesto on reading

"I'm going to tell you that libraries are important. I'm going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I'm going to make an impassioned plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things." This was … Continue reading Neil Gaiman’s manifesto on reading

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May 15, 2015January 10, 2016Guardian, Imagination, Libraries, Manifesto, Neil Gaiman, Reader's Corner, Reading1 Comment
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My Little Free Library project…

I'm going to be sponsoring a Little Free Library in our neighborhood. "Take a book, return a book." I enjoy looking at the pictures of all the little free libraries people have built. Here's one repurposing a pay phone booth, which is extinct now, of course. It would be nice to build the equivalent of … Continue reading My Little Free Library project…

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April 14, 2014September 4, 2014E-books, Libraries, Little Free Library, Neighborhood, pay phone booth1 Comment
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New uses for libraries…

In this rapidly changing world, you must reinvent yourself or die. While I am thinking about how to reinvent myself, I am inspired by how others are doing it. Take, for example, libraries, which will always be an important and relevant part of the human community, in my opinion. Here are two ways in which … Continue reading New uses for libraries…

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March 23, 2013October 19, 2014Libraries, Makerspace, Seeds2 Comments

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