I tell the people reporting to me to schedule learning time for their
1st hour of the day. Before turning on email or listening to voice
mail. Rarely is there anything in daily operations that can't wait an
hour.
Of course I totally suck at taking my own advice. I wish I had time
to improve my skills with MySQL, RDF, and XSLT
Laura
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Laura J. Smart
Metadata Services Manager, Caltech Library
laura_at_library.caltech.edu/laura.j.smart_at_gmail.com
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Bohyun Kim <kimb_at_fiu.edu> wrote:
> I want to learn most of all how to find "time" to learn without being swamped by everyday operations...
>
>
> Bohyun
>
> ---
> Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS
> Digital Access Librarian
> bohyun.kim_at_fiu.edu
> Medical Library, College of Medicine
> Florida International University
> ________________________________________
> From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Simon Spero [ses_at_UNC.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:23 PM
> To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Nate Vack <njvack_at_wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Edward Iglesias
>> <edwardiglesias_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > I am doing a presentation at RILA (Rhode Island Library Association)
>> on changing skill sets for Systems Librarians. I did a formal survey a
>> while back (if you participated, thank you) but this stuff changes so
>> quickly I thought I would ask this another way. What do you wish you had
>> time to learn?
>>
>> Statistics.
>>
>
> R can be a dangerous tool without a basic grasp of statistics, but then
> again, so is statistics.
>
> Simon
>
Received on Tue Apr 26 2011 - 13:13:55 EDT