Can we be more with what we have?
Posted On Dec 8 2011Many thanks to my colleague, Katie Birch, for pointing out a relatively random Wikipedia page about “Doing more with less.” “David Simon has professed that despite being an oft-repeated command to dying institutions, the ability to do more with less is an inherent impossibility.” Please don’t infer that I am calling libraries “dying institutions.” My more radical point is that a library who says they are attempting to do more with less is pigeon-holing itself in the ‘dying institution’ category with that mindset. As a systems librarian, my professional goal has always been to implement efficiency into library …