As some of you may know, I’m a busy person. I travel for my job, write, and am on two boards (the library and the library friends.) In between two board meetings yesterday I started talking with two other friends board members about how all three of us we of that type that found it difficult to say ‘no’ to things. One of the two women I was talking to said that the problem was actually that too many other people had figured out that we don’t say ‘no’. The other woman then corrected both of us and said that the real problem was that ‘not enough people say yes.’ I think she’s got a point. What are you doing to help your community?
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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