I’ve been thinking about Ruth’s post about sharing professional reading and how to set up a group, or what platform to use for such a group.
I’m thinking that the key thing is to start reading – rather than worrying about where we will get together to talk about what we’re reading.
Having said that, though, I’m a bit stumped as to what to read. I have to admit to not being the best reader of non-fiction out there. I get bored, distracted, sidetracked too easily. And I must confess that after a long day at work I’d much rather read an interesting Sara Paretsky novel (I love V. I. Warshawski) rather than some journal of librarianship.
So I’d love to hear about what you read for work, and how you make the time (and space) to read. Inspire me!
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Reading Econobabble by Richard Denniss at the moment. Fantastic. Very easy to read writing style and fascinating breakdown of economic terms waved in front of us in the papers or by politicians.
Also re-reading Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking. It’s a biography/skills development tool so might feel like normal book reading to you. I find it confronting on so many fronts so it must be good for me …
I can’t decide if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I do very little “professional” reading. I keep up with tech and systems stuff and rely on social networks to point me to interesting papers which I occasionally read. I suspect I mostly just fudge my way through.
Having just jumped from Public to Academic Libraries I’m reading some foundational texts to try to play catch-up. Currently reading Getting the Word Out: Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers by ACRL (ed. Bonn & Furlough) and Planned Obsolescence by Kathleen Fitzpatrick.