December
- PL 75/11: Network like crazy. Brief notes for my final talk at LATINA Winter in Haikou.
- PL 74/11: Creativity required. The global economy demands innovation.
- PL 73/11: IFLA asked to reduce fees. Conducting open debates about difficult issues is a sign of strength and maturity.
- PL 72/11: Go this way! Picture from Ramallah training.
- PL 71/11: Tricky research. Interpreting statistics is a complex balancing act.
- PL 70/11: Bird-in-hand: entrepreneurs in HE. Lively seminar at Oslo and Akershus University College.
November
- PL 69/11: Twenty questions. An information retrieval exercise.
- PL 68/11: The rising cost of HE. The old financial model is not sustainable in an economy that is based on knowledge
- PL 67/11: Go for statistics …. When bachelors are a dime a dozen, higher degrees lift your salary.
- PL 66/11: Around the stats in 90 minutes. What should a meaningful workshop look like?
October
- PL 65/11: Early days in library statistics. What shall we discuss in Helsinki?
- PL 64/11: No fire in the belly. Oh, those lazy students. When I was young …
- PL 63/11: Twitter for teachers. A very powerful medium
- P 62/11: Twitter for institutions. A very practical medium
- P 61/11: Report from the innovation front. A piece of practical advice for lecturers
- PL 60/11: Preparing for Oslo. LATINA Fall in Oslo in November – after sessions in Palestine in September
- PL 59/11: Library night in Romania
- PL 58/11: Learning in several languages. Six world languages
- Pl 57/11: Conflict in Palestine. Personal reflections
- PL 56/11: Twitter in Palestine. The parliament of birds …
September
- PL 55/11: A bridge from T to N
- P 54/11: Outside the box. Be the change that you want to see (Gandhi)
- Pictures chosen by LATINA participants.
- P 53/11: LATINA readings 2011. Intense debate about education and the Web.
- P 52/11: The web and the galaxy. Planning LATINA Fall in Palestine
August
- P 51/11: A new university college. Oslo and Akershus join forces.
- P 50/11: Library development in Dominican Republic. Big and well-planned census underway.
- P 49/11: Google and Wikipedia undermine student “research”. True enough, but how can we respond?
- P 48/11: Visual learning and teaching. Notes for a lecture at LATINA Lab
- P 47/11: Reliable statistics are hard to find. Library data from Puerto Rico
- P 46/11: A great historian from Puerto Rico. Fernando Pico gave the IFLA keynote
- PL 45/11: Deep change at IFLA. New IFLA president Ingrid Parent wants IFLA to support change
- PL 44/11: IFLA blogs by language. Close to forty blogs – but not so much activity.
- PL 43/11: E-metrics is a development project. A hard subject to get a grasp on
- PL 42/11: Slow change at IFLA. Change and resistance under digital conditions …
- PL 41/11: Going to IFLA.NDIA. A cultural report on arrival
- PL 40/11: Hard work for OCLC. With Norway as a case we show how hard it is to get reliable and current statistics from many countries.
- PL 39/11: Summer school in Romania. Supporting young librarians
- PL 38/11: School library statistics. Good research with practical results in California
- PL 37/11: Fragmented “research”. Small pieces, loosely joined – in Great Britain as in Norway
- PL 36/11: Sharing global statistics. A realistic approach to statistical information.
- PL 35/11: Explore and process. About Plinius Data.
- PL 34/11: Search: How Libraries Do it Wrong. Understanding the context of reference.
- PL 33/11: Leaders with experience. Lessons from digital services.
- PL 32/11: IFLA coming up. IFLA 2.0 gets going.
July
- PL 31/11: A different place. Norway after Utøya
- PL 30/11: Budget cuts at British Library. Deep cuts.
- PL 29/11: A British research coalition. A strategic framwork for LIS research
- PL 28/11: A German quality index. BIX for academic libraries
- PL 27/11: An American data hero. Robert E. Molyneux sets up archive
- PL 26/11: A necessary evil. Singers and statisticians.
- PL 25/11: Good statistics advice. How to deal with numbers.
- PL 24/11: Size matters. Norwegian public libraries 2010
- PL 23/11: Soft research. Why can’t people just be pleasant? All the time?
June
- PL 22/11: A plague of plagiarism. Explains the human why and how.
- PL 21/11: Learning from practice. EBLIP editor discusses the concept of evidence.
- PL 20/11: A growing gap. Students criticize mismatch between graduate library studies and the actual field of practice.
- PL 19/11: Started but not sustained. Again and again, projects collapse when funders drop their support.
- PL 18/11: Intro to Karen Marie. Who teaches radiographers how to retrieve the literature in the field.
- PL 17/11: IFLA papers 2011. Multicultural and digital.
May
- PL 16/11: Cops and robbers. On spammers
- PL 15/11: Communities of practice. Etienne Wenger visits OUC
- PL 14/11: Librarians as teachers. The VOLARE project.
April
- PL 12/11: Bourdieu in practice. Situated sociology and philosophy
- PL 11/11: Immigrants in a digital Norway. Substantial study of digital skills
- PL 10/11: Primal innovation. Call for action from Columbia University Library.
- PL 9/11: Less public library use in Finland. 2010 stats just published.
March
- PL 8/11: Dismal science. Weak library research.
- PL 7/11: Science and art – evidently. Discusssing EBLIP – with the editor
- PL 6/11: The value of libraries for research. New British report
- PL 5/11: Digital immigrants. My paper for IFLA in Puerto Rico.
- PL 4/11: Low salaries in “people professions”. US salary statistics
January
- PL 3/11: Whichbook and Ønskebok.no. Usage statistics in Norway and Great Britain
- PL 2/11: More than instruction. A never-ending story …
- PL 1/11: Lead the way. Kudos to Karen Schneider
