Author: Jonathan Barney

14 Oct Valuing federal libraries

With so much information available electronically, libraries everywhere—whether law firm, corporate or government—are under the microscope and increasingly called upon to justify the precious real estate they occupy.

07 Aug Federal librarian as marketer and advocate

In the Information Age, where every person has in their hands a device capable of accessing the cumulative knowledge of mankind, libraries and librarians often seem to be a quaint anachronism. Libraries are still struggling to shake off the image of dusty card catalogs and…

18 Sep Volunteering at the 18th National Book Festival

This year marks my tenth anniversary with both LAC and the National Book Festival.  In that decade at the Festival, I have been everything from an information booth attendant to a “bouncer” at the children’s stage preventing overeager parents from sneaking their children backstage to…