Thanksgiving and Appreciative Inquiry
Among the Thanksgiving day plans along with menu and travel planning many of us pause to think about the many blessings we have in our lives. it has often been said that our Piilgrim forefathers beyond beign thankful for their survival actually survived because they were thankful. As many of our libraries and their staff members are bracing for a difficult budget season this seems like a very good time to bring the surprisingly effective planning technique known as Appreciative Inquiry to everyon's atention.

Recycling @ Your Library
Libraries are the ultimate recycling managers if you think about how we coordinate use and reuse our collection materials, if your town or city has a green initiative I hope you will point this out. We can do a better job of recycling the materials that are weeded out of our collections using resources like Better World Books www.betterworldbooks.com and B-logistics www.blogistics.com. Creative designs can also be made with withdrawn books see Su Blackwell's designs at www.sublackwell.co.uk for inspiration. Other sites with creative ideas incllude

Recycling @ Your Library
Libraries are the ultimate recycling managers if you think about how we coordinate use and reuse our collection materials, if your town or city has a green initiative I hope you will point this out. We can do a better job of recycling the materials that are weeded out of our collections using resources like Better World Books www.betterworldbooks.com and B-logistics www.blogistics.com. Creative designs can also be made with withdrawn books see Su Blackwell's designs at www.sublackwell.co.uk for inspiration. Other sites with creative ideas incllude www.darkroasted-blend.com/2008909/bittersweet-art-of-cutting-up books.html or www.offbeatearth.coom/dont-like-reading-other-uses-for-books/ or

Twelve Survival Tips for ALL Libraries
Steven Bell has applied Tips for Survival of Newspapers, newspapers quicly becoming the poster child for a service that has lowered its quality to save money while not adapting to the culture around it, to academic libraries. Take a look, don't these ideas apply to all libraries? A Dozen Newspaper Survival Tips For Academic Librarians The newspaper industry has become a case study of sorts for what not to do to evolve in the Internet Age. Having waited too long to adapt to the Internet’s unique ability to broadcast real-time news, newspapers now find themselves struggling to survive, and in the past year several failed to do so. Given that both newspapers and

Presentations for Job Seekers
Slideshare is a program that makes Powerpoint presentations on all kinds of topics availabel to all users. Because we have had such an interest in providing suport for job seekers in our libraries I thought this list of the seven best Powerpoint presentations for job seekers from The Appliicant's Blog would be of interest.