NASA formed a committee to look at how things were done in their organization. Instead of writing a report no one would read, they created a video and posted it on YouTube. I can say that MPOW has its moments but it’s not this bad. Watch this video and ask yourself, have I ever been told, or worse, said any of these phrases?
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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This video was profiled on NPR Monday. One NASA official blogged that he found it “extraordinarily funny and not at all funny.”
This video was profiled on NPR Monday. One NASA official blogged that he found it “extraordinarily funny and not at all funny.”