In part 1, I asked readers to think about what it would be like to imagine living with access to only a very small selection of books, and provided some additional context for Canada. If you haven’t already, please read Imagine Living Without Books Part 1 as the two parts are meant to be read as one post. Continue reading “Imagine Living Without Books Part 2: Connecting Print Disabled Readers”
Tag: reflection
Imagine Living Without Books Part 1: The Importance of Supporting Print Disabled Readers
People often ask me what I do, and I tend to respond with “providing books in accessible formats to print disabled”, but most people seem to simply accept that as another job or project description. Some people do ask me to explain further, but often, I don’t think we (and that includes myself, and other people involved in the project) truly realize the impact and importance of the project. Continue reading “Imagine Living Without Books Part 1: The Importance of Supporting Print Disabled Readers”
Better than Christmas Morning: Finding Your Motivation
This was originally posted on The Pastry Box on October 1. Unfortunately, for some reason it was not tweeted about, so I didn’t see that it had been published. Anyway, here it is re-published. Enjoy. Continue reading “Better than Christmas Morning: Finding Your Motivation”
Musing: Playing Around with the NNELS Logo
It’s come up recently that we might consider revising our logo. I saw a coworker playing around with it and thought I’d give it a try. Continue reading “Musing: Playing Around with the NNELS Logo”
Open Everything in Libraries
I started writing this blog post quite a while ago as you can tell from the intro, but I had forgotten about it and decided to recently finish it.
Intro
Listening to the talks at Code4LibBC last week, I began to think about open data and collections, but then starting to also think about the role of libraries and the idea that it’s a public space.
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