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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 --- 28 days ago http://blogs.ala.org/LAandM.php?title=berry_nails_it&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
| Over at Library Journal, there's John Berry. You probably know of him, since he was editor of that fine publication for over thirty years. Since retiring from that position, he has continued to share his viewpoint on all sorts of library topics in a series of editorial columns called Blatant Berry, and I find myself reading these first when looking at LJ. He also keeps up an infrequent blog at the LJ site. Like a lot of the people who have been around the profession for a while, Berry sometimes looks at what is new through the prism of what counted for 'new' over all his many years in the profession. Typically that means an insightful idea about the direction of librarianship, an infrequent flub into the 'past was better' realm, and an occasional grand slam where he takes a matter of the highest importance and calmly articulates it with a wisdom and skill that the rest of us can only hope to attain by the time we have reached an age (ahem) where he is now. Berry gets it with the first pitch in his latest Blatent Berry column that appears in the current issue of LJ, conveniently published on the web. Berry's topic: managing a library. His key truism: there is no formula for management. Berry captures in words what those of us who manage every day already know. We live it, and when he describes it, we know exactly what he is talking about. Management is an art not a science. Managers respond based on intuition and skill developed over m ... |
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