George and Joan Podcasts

In this special edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan offer up "A Visit to the Library," with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore.

On behalf of George and Joan, and all the folks at Infopeople we wish you and yours a safe, healthy and happy holiday season!

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take a look at best practices. George read an article in the Harvard Business Review's free e-mail newsletter that got him thinking about the wisdom of always thinking best practices are, in fact, the best practices.

In this podcast George and Joan talk about the concept of place - not just library as place, but the very basic idea of locality and how we develop a sense of community - and of course, how it ties into libraries. This conversation was prompted by their experience at the Eureka!

In this podcast, George and Joan talk live from Nashville where they're attending a library consultants conference. The conference prompted them to start wondering how libraries approach training in hard times. When budgets get cut, how do you stay current and up-to-date? They ask lots of thought-provoking questions.

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss how the little details of customer service can make all the difference.

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan continue the conversation about Taiga Forum that they started in their last podcast. This time around they focus on the Forum statements that look at what the library as an institution may be like in the future.

In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan talk about the Taiga Forum's latest statements. The Taiga Forum is a group of academic librarians who meet once a year and create a series of "provocative statements" about libraries, the information environment and the possible future of the library world.

Barnes & Noble recently opened the (virtual) doors of their eBook Store. Is this new player a Kindle-killer? Is it a library-killer? It's too soon to tell, but in their latest podcast, George & Joan do see implications for libraries.

In George and Joan's latest podcast, George and Joan talk about a recent experience they enjoyed at the recent ALA conference: meeting the Shanachies of the library world, and hearing about their amazing tour of libraries across America (and if you hear envy in their voices, you'd be right!).