When we were preparing the case for our “Library on Location” trial, and again when we were writing up our results for the conference paper, we did a literature review – both journals and blogs. I thought we’d been pretty much as thorough as the variable terminology people assign to the concept allowed.<\/p>\n
But I just saw a tweet<\/a> linking to Theoretical Job Description for the Librarian with a Laptop<\/a>, which links back to where the blogger first had the idea<\/a>, which in turn links to someone else with the same idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n (This last one is a really really<\/em> great idea for implementing it at an academic library with maximum success.)<\/p>\n It’s not uncommon for me to see the occasional new one, but for some reason this hit me with a “Argh, we librarians really like reinventing the wheel, don’t we?” At one point I was vaguely thinking of doing a survey of libraries who’d done this kind of thing in order to write up a journal article about success factors, but stuff happened. Suddenly I’m all fired up again and just have to work out how to pull myself back from impending overcommitment…<\/p>\n