September Social Media Content For Libraries

Posted by Credo on 8/26/15 10:19 PM

We understand your library wants to post fun content to social media but that you might not have the time to dedicate to writing it, so we’d like to help!

Customer Success, Social Media, Uncategorized

Libraries Then & Now: Promoting the Library and its Collection in Vastly Different Eras

Posted by Credo on 8/26/15 9:08 AM

Recently we looked at an article Samuel Green wrote in 1876 titled, “Personal Relations between Librarians and Readers,”* and found that despite tectonic shifts in the tools libraries employ, how and why libraries help users has changed very little over the past century and a half.

Uncategorized

Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose: How Daniel Pink’s "Drive" Motivates Me

Posted by Mike Sweet on 8/19/15 10:03 AM

According to recent Gallup study, businesses with high levels of employee engagement are 21% more productive and 22% more profitable than those with low employee engagement.

Conscious Business, Uncategorized

New & Updated Titles In Credo's Core Collections

Posted by Credo on 8/13/15 9:20 PM

 

Core Collections, Credo Collections, Uncategorized

Libraries Then & Now: An 1876 Essay Shows Just How Much (And How Little) Has Changed

Posted by Credo on 8/12/15 11:50 AM

Recently we dusted off a Library Journal article from 1876 in which  Samuel Green speaks to the “Personal Relations Between Librarians and Readers.”* In a series of vignettes about the reference needs of patrons inspired by his time with the Worcester Free Public Library, Green describes scenes that parallel the needs of users today. 140 years later, everything about libraries has changed, except for the many things that are exactly the same.

Trends in Reference, Uncategorized

New and Updated Titles in Credo's Core Collections

Posted by Credo on 8/5/15 12:42 PM

Core Collections, Credo Collections, Uncategorized

Free Lunch and Other Benefits of Credo Workshops

Posted by Lisa Hill on 8/4/15 1:14 PM
Artist's Rendition of a Credo Training Workshop

Customer Success, Training, Uncategorized

August Social Media Content for Libraries

Posted by Credo on 7/28/15 1:44 PM

We understand your library wants to post fun content to social media but that you might not have the time to dedicate to writing it, so we’d like to help!

Customer Success, Social Media, Uncategorized

Academic Reference in the 21st Century

Posted by Credo on 7/22/15 9:38 AM

To borrow a sentiment from Twain, reports of the death of reference have been greatly exaggerated. Just because students now have unprecedented access to information through their phones, tablets and computers, that doesn’t mean they aren’t still doing research or using reference. But it does mean that if we want them to do good research, reference may have to adapt to new trends and technologies. So, what does 21st Century Reference look like?

Credo Collections, Trends in Reference, Uncategorized

The Four Skills Most Recent Grads Don't Possess -- But Should

Posted by Mike Sweet on 7/21/15 10:17 AM

Bloomberg Business surveyed recruiters at hundreds of companies to ask them what skills they sought in candidates, and whether they saw those skills in the people applying for jobs. Bloomberg is using the responses to rank business schools, but I think there is a point worth looking at on a much broader scale: higher education has been slow to adapt to the new demands of work in the twenty-first century.

Education, Information Literacy, Uncategorized

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